User Review : StarDrone

Ups

• Great visuals and sound
• Support Move motion controller
• Fresh gameplay on 50 levels

Downs

• A bit repetative if you play too much

Furiously energetic interactive pinball in space

I like this text from other StarDrone review:
"Virtually every PSN title I have ever reviewed before could be summed up roughly by saying, “It’s a bit like [insert other well-know game here]” but I certainly can’t say the same for Stardrone."

This is so true about StarDrone: it is new fresh gameplay mix of Sonic the Hedgehog meets interactive pinball/breakquest gameplay with a some touch of Flow game.

The game is about touch and light stars in the deep space full of evil g-noids aliens.
The battlefield is 50 space mazes, some are easy some are damn hard, especially if you feel real hardcore and set your game speed to the maximum! The scores you get is depends on game speed so you want to finish levels on max speed to get higher scores. There are 3 types of levels: some you need just pass as fast as possible, on other you have to collect the puzzle pieces and deploy them to the spot, on some levels you have to kill all enemies by touching them while in CometRush mode which you get when light-up enough stars.

Game have 2 options for controls: DualShock 3 and if you lucky to have PlayStation Move motion controller, you have really new experience. I found Move controls more precise, so i recommend use it. Would be nice to ask developers to actually see the leaderboards who playing with move and who with dualshock to compare the scores.

The game has standard leaderboards in main menu with 3 filters: overall, friends and your score, which shows where you at the records table. But the most interesting that every level las its own scoreboard but filtered with friends which makes some sort of social-games-competition where you can see the your friends scores on each level and can virtually compete.

As resume: The StarDrone is very PS3 game which you have to try, especially if you have Move motion controller.

Score

9.0

Graphics

Graphics looks very PS3-ish: wider screeen sparkly visuals push your ps3 out of bounds.

8.0

Sound

Nice trancy soundtrack and deep G-noids kick sounds makes quite good soundfield Sometimes sound effects tends to overload when you have dozens stars lighten at once but its quite rate and actually makes the impression of the superbonus.

8.0

Gameplay

50 levels which sometimes really hard to master will make you busy for few weekends and you back to the game again and again.

10.0

Fun Factor

StarDrone adds some fresh to the playstation network gaming portfolio, recommended to have.

8.0

Online

There is no implicit online interactivity but leaderboards with friends filters for every level makes some sort of offline multiplayer competition

Overall

9.0