Missile Command: Recharged

The Good
It is a long time since I played this game or any of its variants and I like what I see. Somehow playing on a bigger screen makes it look fresher yet the absence of too much eye candy kept the game looking 'clean'. I liked the big 'black hole' effects that opened up when I successfully hit an incoming missile, not that it did me a whole lot of good.

Apologies to the composer of the games music are in order. When the game eventually loaded and the menu came up the music started, it was very noticeable because it was a sort of 80's synth sound - very bright - with a strong thumping base underneath it. My first though was that I did not like it and that if I was going to play for any length of time I would mute the game to avoid a headache. However, when I played the game it was, for me, so fast and so frantic that I did not notice the music. Who'd be a composer? All that work and I did not hear it but if I had been aware of the music I would have turned it off.

Gameplay was simple, flawless and needed no tutorial.

The Bad
This may be down to the way I acquired the game. It was free with Amazon Prime and when claimed it was added to my EPIC games account. That all went well. When I opened my EPIC app there was the game in my library so I installed and launched it. That seemed to go well too except that it didn't. The launcher started and then minimised so I maximised it again and it just sat there for a couple of minutes so I aborted and tried again. What I eventually worked out was happening was that when I launched the game a browser window was opening asking me if I would grant EPIC permissions for something or other and the game would not run until I said 'Yes'. This happened whether I launched from the desktop icon or from the Epic launcher and it happened every time I launched the game.

The Bottom Line
Often when a classic game is relaunched someone somewhere has to put their stamp on it and introduce a load of new, clever, whizz-bang features. This does not seem to be the case here. Yes there are missions which I do not remember coming across in other variants but the gameplay is the same.

There is a multiplayer mode which I did not try because, well, I do not play well with others.
There is an Arcade mode which, if it is like some of the variants I have played, may have various levels, if that is the case I will probably never know because I am just not good enough to get that far.

I was never very good at the original game and I am not very good at this either so for me this is not a keeper. However this is down to me and not a fault of the game which is good, fun, and is something I would recommend to anyone who liked the original.