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Quick Look: Gravity Crash

Jeff and Ryan wax nostalgic with this throwback to vector graphics arcade games.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 29 2009

Cast: Jeff, Ryan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Gravity Crash

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Edited By Erik

Never heard of this shooter, but can't wait for the quick look.

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awesome    might be worth a buy

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Edited By Dynamitekyle

Sweet.

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Edited By blair

Sunday Quick Looks are always much appreciated.

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yay sunday quicklook, was hoping for this

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Edited By DominicWhite

Bah, they wussed out for this video. Twin-stick mode is Easy Mode. The default setting is single-stick Gravitar/Gravitron style, where you thrust and shoot in the direction you're facing, meaning that maneuvering and fighting is a lot more tactical and challenging.

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GRAVITY!!

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Edited By EvilDingo

Cool... I was totally playing Turbo Raketti the other day on my Amiga - Using right stick to direct your fire seems wrong for this type of gravity-based spaceshooter, though.

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Edited By nanikore

Looks pretty good.

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Did Ryan just ask why there's water in space? They found water on both mars and the moon.

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Edited By Jiquk

Yay quick loooooooooook!

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Huh, looks like a pretty interesting game.

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I'm pretty much digging the soundtrack, too

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This look nice.

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Edited By Quacktastic

A cool visual style but the music is really nice too.
 
@CL60:
Also, there's water on Earth.  We're in space.

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Played the demo, and it was pretty fun. Although I have neither the talent, nor the inclination to use the level editor I still think it's pretty awesome.

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Edited By Diamond

The soundtrack was made by Cold Storage (who did the original WipEout soundtrack, among others) FYI.

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That's not the bookcase.

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Edited By MeatSim

Oceans and volcano's in space!!!

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I like the look of this, I might pick it up actually. Seems like a good game to zone out to.

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That's Gravatron 2

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Edited By Floppypants

That's not the bookcase!

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If Ryan loves this art style so much he should play Defcon.

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That game looks really rad.  I might have to get it.

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Edited By EVO

It's the sorta game that's good in small doses, as it can get tedious especially when hunting all the crystals and shit. Otherwise it's an awesome game that will tide me over until PixelJunk Shooter.

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I tried the demo. Looks neat but after a while it feels like I'm struggling with the game to keep the ship afloat and I have little patience for that.

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Sweet synth soundtrack.

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looks good.

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rocket lawnchair.

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I love Sunday Quicklooks!!  All other websites are dead on Sundays.  Thanks!

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looks nice

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that's not the bookcase

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@Metiphis said:
" I love Sunday Quicklooks!!
Agreed! Its the best!!
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This is so Subterranea it's not funny (or Sub-Terrania... whatever).

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This looks really neat. It's too bad most any shooters like this stress me out.

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Now we know that Jeff stacks his levels with Bony Aliens and Rocket Lawnchas.

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Ryan seemed very content.  This game must have a soothing effect on raging bears.  Playing this game must be like eating a giant sub with all the fixings and drenched in vinegar and oil.

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Looks like Pixeljunk Shooter. I think I will get this game for PSP. I do not think Shooter is coming to PSP.

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And then I quickly programmed a gravity game in XNA :D

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My god......  it's Solar Jetman 2010.    O_O

I will gleefully pay five dollars for a DLC re-skin of this game to 8-bit Solar Jetman.  GET ON IT!

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It reminds me a little of 'Thrust' for the C64. 
And yes, i'm that old.   
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This game looks pretty cool to play. Totally digging the style

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This is definitely quite sexy. It looks a bit easy, but it probably gets more difficult. The dual-stick mode is nice. :D

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yeah there's some nice music there.

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Edited By swabbleflange

This is my game of the year without question. That seems like a pretty premature statement at first considering how long it's been out, but basically it ticks almost all the boxes in my favourite genre. It does the gravity gameplay of Gravitar, Thrust, OIDS, Solar Jetman, etc. Does it with glowing vectors (which is how all videogames should look if you ask me), has a great chippy soundtrack and a level editor to boot.
 
The only thing it's lacking is a cargo grappling element as in Thrust.

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cool game.  That level editor looks well done and easy to use.

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Not the most interesting QL, but love when they randomly reference some game I played when i was 7-12.  Kinda have fond memories of playing Lunar Lander on my uncles comadore.  Makes me laugh a bit at how simple but rediculasly hard the games of my childhood were.  So bizzare to have fond memories of games that now a days if I ever came across anything like them, I would scoff at it and say WTF is this shit, before turning it off within 2 mins.
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quick look on a sunday!???!?! what a blessing ^____^ 

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I think i might get this, its only $10

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amazing looks great.. 
 
ps3 really is getting better and better. 
 
thanks for the quick look