Shadowgrounds - Gameplay - System requirements

Shadowgrounds is a fun, retro shooter. It's presented in a top down format, rather than as a FPS. The graphics are not world class, but do the job nicely. Likewise the story is certainly cliche - a space outpost is overrun by murderous aliens with a few survivors left to fight back and get out alive - but it is presented in a nice way and kept me entertained.

I would recommend using a game controller with this game. For me that worked great vs. a bit of frustration with keyboard and mouse.

I found the game to be slightly challenging without becoming frustrating. Each level gives you four respawns which reset for each new level. If/when you die you respawn a short distance from where you died and the level is exactly as when you died. In other words, any enemies you nerfed are still dead, etc. If you use up all your respawns (I assume) you must restart the level. There is no saving during a level, so you must either complete the current level or if you need to close the program you'll be forced to restart at the beginning. Due to this, my playtime is padded as I left the game running in the background a few times when I needed to step away.

There is a decent amount of variety in that there are about a dozen weapons to find and use and various upgrades to buy for each weapon. You won't have enough upgrade points to max out every weapon, so some thought needs to be used in deciding which to buy.

The enemies come in about six or seven different types which most of those types having several toughness levels. Throw in a few boss fights over the course of the game and it maintains interest over the half dozen or so hours it takes to run through.

If you can pick this up for a buck or two, I would go for it. Nice few days of fun to be had. - review by rob3k(steamid)

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System requirements Shadowgrounds:

Minim: 1.3 GHZ sau echivalent, 384 MB RAM, GeForce 4 Ti 4200* sau ATi Radeon 9000 sau mai bună, 1 GB spațiu liber pe hard disk, Windows 2000/XP 

Recomandat: 2.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, GeForce FX 5900 Ultra sau ATi Radeon 9500 Pro sau mai bună 

* Te rog să reții că Shadowgrounds nu rulează pe plăcile GeForce 4 MX.