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|title = Jamestown
|title = Jamestown
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|developer = [[Final Form Games]]
|developer = [[Final Form Games]]
|publisher = [[Final Form Games]]
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Revision as of 16:49, 3 July 2011

Jamestown
Developer(s)Final Form Games
Publisher(s)Final Form Games
Designer(s)Timothy Ambrogi, Michael Ambrogi, Halsted Larsson
Composer(s)Francisco Cerda
Platform(s)Windows
ReleaseSteam
June 8, 2011[1]
Genre(s)Action/strategy, Shoot 'em up, Manic Shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Jamestown (Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony) is a vertically scrolling shoot em up pc game developed and released by Final Form Games in 2011. The game takes place on Mars, in an alternate history steampunk 17th century, where the planet is a British colony contested by the Spanish, and the indigenous martians.

Gameplay

The game features mechanics similar to many other shooters. There are 4 types of ship available, each with a primary and secondary attack. There is also the so called Vaunt Mode which the player can trigger when enough gold from destroyed enemies has been collected. When vaunt mode is engaged the ship gains a temporary shield and increased damage and point multiplier for a limited time.

The game is playable in both regular singleplayer mode and in a local multiplayer mode supporting up to 4 players.

Development

The game was developed in two years by the small indie developer Final Form Games, and financed by the three founders own personal savings.[2] The developers present the Cave shooter Progear as being the closest thing to a direct influence, and say that the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki, in particular Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Laputa: Castle in the Sky influenced the artstyle.[2]

Reception

Jamestown was met with positive reviews upon it's release and has an aggregate score of 84% at Metacritic.[3] IGN gave the game a score of 8.5/10 and called it "an accessible, punchy shooter with some clever mechanics at play and a surprising level of depth hiding beneath the 16-bit surface".[4] 1up praised it's approachable, escalating difficulty, the 16-bit style graphics and it's soundtrack.[5]

System requirements

  • Windows XP with SP2/Vista/7
  • Intel® Pentium™ 4 2.4 GHz or better
  • Any OpenGL 2.0 graphics card with 256MB+ video RAM
  • 512 MiB of memory
  • 250 MB free hard disk space

References

  1. ^ "Jamestown". Steam. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  2. ^ a b "Interview: Final Form Games Talks Jamestown, Hoagies". Press x or die. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  3. ^ "Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony (PC: 2011)". Metacritic. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  4. ^ "Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony Review". IGN. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  5. ^ "Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony Review (PC)". 1up.com. Retrieved 2011-07-03.
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