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Death Ray Manta (or DRM:The Videogame, no... not that sort of DRM!) is an attempt at finding the 2 1/2 minute pop song in videogame form only lasting more than 2 1/2 minutes. It's an arena shooter that knows its history. From Robotron to Llamatron to Geometry Wars and on, it keeps one eye on what works, what's worked and tries to explore it all. Quickly. In a condensed few moments of pleasure. It's a videogame about flashing lights in your face. Very, very, pretty lights. It's an arcade game that filters what Eugene Jarvis could have done visually given access to modern technology. Which means enormous cataclysmic explosions of rainbow colour. Often. Designed to be quickly dip into/dip out-able, a game of DRM won't take up too much of your time at all. And why should it? We've all got lives to lead, let's make this quick, but let's make it the good kind of quick. It's a game about taking one look at the screen then destroying everything on it. Then doing it again. And again. Because blowing stuff up is tremendous fun. It was later released as freeware. |
