Super Crate Box
By Vlambeer
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Description
Vlambeer's smash hit SUPER CRATE BOX brings back the glory of the golden arcade age when all that really mattered was getting on that high score list! Grab your baseball cap and loosen your pants, it's time to fight endless hordes of enemies and collect every weapon crate you can. Prepare for an arcade delight with tight controls, refreshing game mechanics, cracking retro art and a terribly hip chiptune soundtrack.
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- "Its high-octane play married with its no-frills, arcade game design keeps me collecting crates and blasting enemies into delightful little pieces of monster." - TouchArcade (5/5)
"Supremely straightforward, criminally addictive, and easily the best retro action title I’ve ever played on iOS." - AppAdvice
"This is one of those triumphs of minimalist design and limited complexity that gets its hooks in you early and never lets go." - Ars Technica
"The effulgent nature of Super Crate Box is reflective of the game's alluring gameplay and artwork that both will draw any gamer in without fail. " - iPhone Alley (5/5)
"But if you're real gamer – and, what's more, a gentleman – then Super Crate Box is without question the game for you." - PocketGamer (Silver Award)
"This belongs up there with Drop7, Solipskier and SpellTower as an example of the very best that the App Store offers." - EuroGamer (9/10)
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Super Crate Box won numerous awards, including prizes by IGN, EDGE, IndieGames.com and a nomination for 'Excellence in Design' by the Independent Games Festival. So far, over 85 million crates have been collected worldwide.
Collect crates where-ever you go, whenever you want. Now, Super Crate Box is finally available on the go!
What's New in Version 1.1
Welcome to the 5,000,000 crates update of Super Crate Box iOS!
Thanks for being part of the first steps of SCB iOS! We're speechless to see how fast we reached 10,000,000 crates already!
First of all, in this update one of our heroes has been kidnapped and 40 million crates have been demanded for her release! Help us out rescuing her so we can stop worrying about that and start worrying about getting you a new goal for us to unlock more iOS-exclusive content & features!
For this update, you can now select your character from the stats menu, so you can always play with your favorite characters. We've tweaked the controls based on your suggestions, made Jump & Shoot possible and added the ability to switch the A & B buttons around. On top of that, 5 new, unlockable characters have been added - you can unlock one of them by collecting 1000 crates in total & another one by making 5000 kills.
Finally, do not forget to help us out through Twitter (@Vlambeer & @Halfbot), Facebook and by rating the game to help us out creating more updates for the game.
Customer Reviews
Great game, improved controls
I think it's a testament to this game's great design that, even though I hated the controls, I kept on playing it. The 1.1 update makes the touch area for the controls larger on the iPhone/iPod Touch, which makes the game less frustrating to play. Also, the jump/shoot button layout can now be reversed, which is nice. Thanks for taking feedback!
Awesome!
I really like this game. It is extremely addicting even if you're bad at it. I wish you could kill enemies by jumping on them and I liked the idea someone else had that some crates have power ups. Overall, great game!
Super addicting, frustrating controls
V 1.1:
Despite the developer talking about tweaking gameplay based on review feedback, they didn't. The collision areas are still way too big on the main characters, the controls (despite now being reversible) are too small on iPad, and lead to a lot of missed button presses and deaths. The only way for this game to possibly work with touch controls is something fully customizable, with huge hit zones.
Very disappointing update. Don't take credit for fixing issues that weren't fixed. This is still a great game on a platform that it simply doesn't control well with.
V 1.01:
The game itself is great, and totally worth your dollar. Get it. This has been the biggest timesuck of my week, by far.
The biggest complaint/feedback I have is with the controls. About half of my deaths are because of control problems, and I think Vlambeer can do a couple things to improve this. Customizable button locations and sizes for iPad would make a huge difference. The jump and fire buttons are spaced too far apart, and I think everybody would appreciate being able to make their own little tweaks. The iPhone version also loses a lot of play area (including crates) under the thumbs. There should be an option to zoom out a little bit and not have this issue. It would also be great to be able to use an iPhone/iPod Touch as a controller, and play the game on an iPad. Giant (customizable) buttons with no hands covering the screen would be perfect!
The only other issue I'm having is hit detection. The characters hit area is too big, and I get false deaths by running under guys who are falling off of higher platforms. Very frustrating.
Again, the game is incredible with ridiculously addictive play. The controls would be fine under any other context, but the game requires precision that just can't be matched by onscreen buttons in their current state.
- $1.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Jan 10, 2012
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 13.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Vlambeer vof
- © 2010 Vlambeer
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1 or later
