Casual games developer Slam has put out the first information about it's forthcoming game Planet Busters. Unlike many recent casual titles which feature happy cartoon animals, magical kingdoms and - more often than not - jewels, bricks cake or other easily arranged item; Planet Busters is focused very firmly on violence of cosmic proportions.
Like many of the true arcade classics, Planet Busters puts the player at the helm of a heavily armed spaceship and then lets them loose. Thankfully it is in a good cause. The ominously named 'Scourge' has just dissolved the Earth (using some sort of beam we'd imagine) and turned everyone and everything you loved into random strings of carbon molecules.
So you set out for revenge. Obviously.
As the press release says:
Planet Busters’ gameplay couldn’t be simpler. Sets of extremely dangerous missiles flash up the screen, messing up the space-time continuum. Players have to move the missiles to create matching groups. This creates chain reactions and triggers some ridiculously powerful explosions. Once a sufficiently large group is made, they flash away into the inky blackness and explode, shattering enemy ships, battle stations and even planets – leaving destruction on a massive scale – and teaching the Scourge that mankind is not to be trifled with.
Which sounds like fun.
The game is coming out for PC's running XP and Vista. Availability and cost will be announced 'shortly.
“Planet Busters is a whole new universe for us,” says Slam's Linda 'Star Commander' MacKellar. “Over the last few months, we've released games based on spelling and language and games for the female market, but we've not had anything which has featured lots of really, really big explosions. We're delighted with the results. I've always wanted to be an all-powerful force in the galaxy and now I can be – all without leaving the comfort of my PC.”
“Mwaah hah ha ha haaaah!” added MacKellar, as she obliterated the ancient worlds of Omicron Reticuli IV, V and VII.
Which sums it up quite well really.




