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Centipede: Infestation

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(Wii - US, Arcade)

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Atari

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24 Oct 2011

Centipede: Infestation is like Space Invaders Extreme or Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX , a modern "re-imagining" of a classic video game franchise. Here, players are thrust into a post-apocalyptic wasteland adventure where plant and animal life has largely been eradicated by war, and bugs have been mutated to monstrous sizes.

Rather than directly playing like classic Centipede , Infestation plays somewhat more like a modern dual analog action title like Geometry Wars or the way classic Robotron 2084 was intended to be played. Players move with the Nunchuck Control Stick or 3DS Circle Pad and aim and shoot with either the Wii Remote or 3DS touch-screen. Gameplay takes place within a single staged area that is often not much larger than the area allowed by a television screen and merely face off against swarms of incoming bugs, and eventually, the pivotal centipedes themselves.

Unlike the original games from the early 1980s, Infestation delivers a wide variety of weapons available to the players. Flame Throwers, Freeze Throwers, Laser Guns, Machine Guns, Lightning Guns, and others are on hand for players to maximize their bug-blasting potential. Each player may carry up to four different weapons at one time, and each weapon can be upgraded one time by collecting it a second time.

Several different types of bugs will appear during stages, each with different strengths, attacks, hit points, and behaviors. Ants, for instance, do not tend to attack directly, and will generally follow set paths. Aphids will drop swarms of babies if not killed fast enough. Bomb Spiders explode... like bombs.

The story largely revolves around a group of survivors on post-apocalyptic Earth, one of whom named Maisy may hold the secret to returning plant life to the planet. The story progresses over 40 stages, which deliver a variety of different challenges beyond simply killing everything onscreen. Sometimes switches must be hit, sometimes specific enemies or weapons are highlighted.

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