Asteroids: Outpost Impressions: See You On The Dark Side Of The Moon Asteroids Outpost
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When Atari CEO Fred Chesnais told me back at PAX 2014 that the company was
There are also constant asteroid showers raining down from the sky—thus the name, even if it's still a bit of a stretch as far as reboots are concerned. Asteroids are a danger, destroying pieces of your base if you're not careful. However, they're also essential to your survival, full of valuable ores you'll need for crafting. The crafting system itself seems a bit limited at the moment, with only a dozen or so room-types and a handful of tools, but who knows how it'll look at release or even a month after release.
Oh, and that lunar buggy thing is a hell of a lot of fun to drive in moon gravity. It makes me a bit giddy to see eight tons of steel glide back down to the surface like a balsa-wood plane.
Like all these recent survival games, however, Atari's biggest challenge is going to be attracting players. I'll concede that Asteroids at least has the most unique premise in a genre chock full of backwoods-Americana clones—space provides a nice change of scenery from Pacific Northwest-style forest scenes. But it is, at its heart, yet another survival game. Will a semi-unique premise allow it to coexist alongside its more established brethren? We'll see.
And we won't have to wait long. Asteroids is slated for a full release in 2015. Hopefully next time we take a look, it's not so lonely out in space.
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Hayden writes about games for PCWorld and doubles as the resident Zork enthusiast.
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