Space Invaders Get Even
{{Short description|2008 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Space Invaders Get Even
| image = Space Invaders Get Even Coverart.png
| caption =
| developer = Taito
Cattle Call
| publisher = {{vgrelease|JP|Taito|WW|Square Enix}}
| director = Yuichi Tanzawa
| producer = Hiroshi Aoki
| designer = Hiroshi Aoki
Yuichi Tanzawa
| programmer = Tomoyuki Uno
Sakura Ruri
Miki Hayao
Hirotoshi Kuwabara
| artist = Makoto Saitoh
Shūgo Takayama
| composer = Takafumi Wada
Atsuhiro Motoyama
Hirotaka Kikuchi
| released = {{vgrelease|JP|August 26, 2008|PAL|November 7, 2008|NA|December 1, 2008}}
| genre = Real-time strategy
Shoot 'em up
| modes = Single-player
| series = Space Invaders
| platforms = Wii
}}
{{nihongo foot|Space Invaders Get Even|スペースインベーダーゲットイーヴン ～逆襲のスペースインベーダー～|Supēsu Inbēdā Getto Īvun ~Gyakushū no Supēsu Inbēdā|lit. Space Invaders Get Even: The Counterattacking Space Invaders|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a video game by Taito for the Wii. Originally intended as a retail release, the game was released as a downloadable WiiWare game instead.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2008/06/get_even_with_space_invaders_on_wiiware |title=Get Even With Space Invaders On WiiWare |date=17 June 2008 |access-date=2008-06-17 |archive-date=2008-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619032750/http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2008/06/get_even_with_space_invaders_on_wiiware |url-status=live }} It was released in Japan on August 26, 2008, in Europe and Australia on November 7, 2008,{{Cite web |url=http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2008/11/eu_wiiware_update_alien_crush_returns_brain_challenge_and_space_invaders_get_even |title=EU WiiWare Update: Alien Crush Returns, Brain Challenge and Space Invaders Get Even |date=6 November 2008 |access-date=2008-11-06 |archive-date=2008-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110042437/http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2008/11/eu_wiiware_update_alien_crush_returns_brain_challenge_and_space_invaders_get_even |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Space Invaders Get Even |url=http://wii.gamespy.com/wii/space-invaders-get-even/ |access-date=June 25, 2024 |website=GameSpy}} and in North America on December 1, 2008.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2008/12/usa_wiiware_update_space_invaders_get_even_and_pit_crew_panic |title=USA WiiWare Update: Space Invaders Get Even & Pit Crew Panic! |date=December 2008 |access-date=2008-12-01 |archive-date=2008-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204034718/http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2008/12/usa_wiiware_update_space_invaders_get_even_and_pit_crew_panic |url-status=live }} Outside Japan the game is published by Square Enix.
The game costs 500 Nintendo Points. However, only one stage (consisting of two levels and a boss battle), dubbed the "Starter Pack" is initially available. The game's six additional stages must be purchased separately as three downloadable content packs, also priced at 500 Points each. As a result, the complete game costs a total of 2000 Nintendo Points.
Gameplay
The origins of the game lie with the original classic arcade game Space Invaders. However, Space Invaders Get Even puts a twist on the formula by letting the player control the space invaders themselves.{{Cite web |url=http://www.siliconera.com/2008/03/10/role-reversal-taito-lets-you-players-control-space-invaders/ |title=Role reversal! Taito lets you players control Space Invaders |date=10 March 2008 |access-date=2008-06-17 |archive-date=2008-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612212814/http://www.siliconera.com/2008/03/10/role-reversal-taito-lets-you-players-control-space-invaders/ |url-status=live }}
Breaking away from the gameplay of the original game and its spin-offs, Space Invaders Get Even sees players piloting the invader's UFO across a landscape rendered in 3D graphics, which encompasses areas such as cities, deserts, forests, oceans and military bases. By downloading the extra stages, players are also given the option to swap out the UFO in the game with ships from the Darius and RayForce series of Taito shoot 'em ups, as well as a polygonal version of the "classic" UFO from Space Invaders.
Players move the UFO with the analog stick of the Nunchuk, and then use the pointer function of the Wii Remote to direct a swarm of up to 100 invaders in blowing up buildings and destroying the defending forces of Earth, with continuing destruction increasing the time available to the player. The invaders, which are rendered as flat, glowing two dimensional sprites which resemble the invaders in the original game, can utilize a number of attack formations to dispatch enemies, including forming a drill-like formation to bore into them or crushing them by bouncing on top of them from above.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2008/08/square_enix_gets_invaded |title=Square-Enix Gets Invaded! |date=20 August 2008 |access-date=2008-08-21 |archive-date=2008-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822103356/http://www.wiiware-world.com/news/2008/08/square_enix_gets_invaded |url-status=live }} Over time, human forces will shoot down the player's invader troops, which the player replenishes by shaking the Wiimote.{{cite web | title = Space Invaders Get Even :: Wiiware Game Review | publisher = Kidzworld | url = http://www.kidzworld.com/article/16030-space-invaders-get-even-wiiware-game-review | accessdate = 2009-04-07 | archive-date = 2009-02-04 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090204004912/http://kidzworld.com/article/16030-space-invaders-get-even-wiiware-game-review | url-status = live }} Upon eliminating all opposition in the stage, which includes fighter jets, helicopter gunships and gunboats, the player must then take on a large boss, which include a giant tank, mecha and a huge battleship.{{Cite web |url=http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/086/86493/index.html |title=Dengeki Online |access-date=2008-06-17 |archive-date=2009-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122023703/http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/086/86493/index.html |url-status=live }} The final battle of the game is against the original UFO that crashed on Earth 30 years ago during the first invasion, upgraded and modified by the earthlings.
The game also features online leaderboards.
Reception
{{Video game reviews
| MC = 68/100{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/game/space-invaders-get-even/critic-reviews/?platform=wii |title=Space Invaders Get Even for Wii Reviews |website=Metacritic |publisher=CBS Interactive |accessdate=2018-09-24 |archive-date=2018-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223131038/https://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/space-invaders-get-even |url-status=live }}
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Wired{{'s}} Chris Kohler found the gameplay in the Starter Pack to be "addictive and well-balanced", yet lamented that making the rest of the stages available only as paid downloadable content was like "the modern-day equivalent of Insert Coin To Continue".{{Cite magazine |url=http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/08/impressions-spa.html |title=Impressions: Space Invaders Get Even, the Secretly Episodic Game |magazine=Wired |access-date=2008-08-26 |archive-date=2008-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827151733/http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/08/impressions-spa.html |url-status=live |last1=Kohler |first1=Chris }} Nintendo Life, which gave it an 8/10, called it "a wonderful new take on the franchise", though they also believed that players may be put off by both having to purchase the additional stages and needing to free up the amount of internal memory (approximately 700 blocks) required for the game and its additional content.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wiiware-world.com/reviews/2008/11/space_invaders_get_even |title=WiiWare World: Space Invaders Get Even Review |date=9 November 2008 |access-date=2008-11-09 |archive-date=2008-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112051455/http://www.wiiware-world.com/reviews/2008/11/space_invaders_get_even |url-status=live }}
These sentiments were also echoed by 1UP.com, who gave the game a B− grade and called the gameplay a "high concentration of amusing (and plain ol' fun)" action.[https://archive.today/20120716211448/http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3171634&p=44 1UP.com Space Invaders Get Even Review] IGN gave it a 5.9/10, praising the gameplay and the game's humor, but could not justify the cost of purchasing the whole package.{{Cite web |url=http://wii.ign.com/articles/943/943024p1.html |title=IGN: Space Invaders Get Even Review |access-date=2009-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115101709/http://wii.ign.com/articles/943/943024p1.html |archive-date=2009-01-15 |url-status=dead }}
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External links
- [http://www.taito.co.jp/csm/title/2008/si_geteven/ Taito Space Invaders Get Even Japanese site]
- [https://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/wivj/index.html Space Invaders Get Even WiiWare site]
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Category:Cattle Call (company) games
Category:Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection games
Category:Single-player video games
Category:Video games about alien invasions
Category:Video games developed in Japan