I would like to point out to all that Jiggmin, the maker of Platform Racing 2, and many other games, has now put in his 3rd comment ever. Got to page 4 or 5 to find it. THAT REALLY SAYS SOMETHING, NO?! Good Job!
The guy that said MAX YOUR MAIN GUN, REPAIR PROBES, AND FIGHTERS....is correct. I just finished this on Hard. After I did the above I then covered the entire ship with rockets. Helpful with mines.
so...
12 fighters
max main gun
max repair probes
then...make turrets if you like..it helped!
Based off it's STARS rating this game is generally good in most peoples' eye. I agree. I began this game playing hard and I got up to level 6. I had to replay some parts...every stage I had to upgrade something else. I ended up with extra ships, max health repair, and ugraded turret. I replayed the entire game in EASY mode later and found it fun to make rocket turrets through out the ship with max range and upgraded health. Fun to see those auto missles fly to ships off screen. I'm going to retry this game in Norm and try laser turrets next.
This isn't as good as WoW. I really had my expectations up too high with all the advertisments in the mags, tv, and the net. It felt like I watched Superman Returns all over again. 1 star.
16 on elite! 16.024 to be exact.....some wacky stuff going on too! nice! probably very boring if i didnt take all the side scrolling garbage...will try the "boring" approach....fun party game tho!
And I've only ever played the ouch! level, or rather The Hook. I used greens the first two levels, then the low level purples and some low level blues the rest of the time (except sniper towers for bosses). I think I can finally retire from this game now.
[MAP 3: Hook] Once I got to around 20th level I was able to save up money by just using the BASIC CANNON TOWER exclusively with the STICKY TOWER. I floated around $2000 surplus cash after a few levels and was able to build more BCTs almost entirely off the interest alone ($150 extra per level...the towards the end it was over $250). On bosses I used all surplus cash for MK2 towers fully upgraded (first just one, then finally up to three) then sold them after the level was completed. I had been trying for days to even get to the end until I realized this strategy based off of Beengalas's "save money for interest" pointer. I only could kill one creep on the last level...but that was good enough to win I guess. :)
I wrote the developer. He said houses allow more military units to be built. I tested that and it didn't change from 14 possible units even when allowed houses to be destroyed. He did give me a significant trick. Build a military unit over an alien and the alien will die. Take that mortar alien!