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All about action: Deimos Rising, Spider-Man. (The Game Room).
THE EXPRESSION TWITCH FACTOR IS MOST COMMONLY ASSOciated with arcade games. It describes the level of action that a game provides: the more frenetic the game, the greater its twitch factor. In this month's installment of The Game Room, we'll be discussing two new titles that unquestionably have heart-poundingly high twitch factors-Deimos Rising, from Ambrosia Software, and Spider-Man, from Aspyr Media.
Rising Star
David Wareing has once again joined forces with Ambrosia Software to create a twitch masterpiece: Deimos Rising, the long-awaited sequel to Mars Rising. Inspired by classic coin-op arcade games of the 1980s, Deimos Rising is a futuristic shooter that puts you in the cockpit of an assault fighter as you fight to quell a rebellion that has broken out on the terraformed Martian moon Deimos. That's all the pretext you'll need, because when you're playing Deimos Rising, it's all about the action.
This title harks back to the days when arcade games cost a quarter. Waves of enemy ships assault you from the air while ground installations such as cannons and tanks fire at you. Successfully vaporizing your enemies generates goodies, which you collect for point bonuses, shield power-ups, bonus multipliers,…
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