Choplifter HD Review
Much like the original, Choplifter HD is at its absolute best when everything’s going wrong. Play it too competently during the early levels, and it’s a bit like running a taxi company – albeit a taxi company that sends its cars out with machine guns strapped to the bonnet. You leave your base, shoot a few guys, keep an eye on the fuel, pick a few other guys up and then make it back home with a nice soft landing. That’ll be eight pounds, cheers. Sorry about all the roundabouts. Play it badly, though, and it’s kind of amazing. Forget your fuel, spend your missiles profligately and whirl through the skies, roguishly sliding into one cloud of flak after another. Squash the people you’re meant to save, allow a few zombies to climb on board to mess your co-pilot up and then, warning buzzers buzzing, take plenty of machine gun fire from the locals as you arrive back at the base running, as they say, on fumes. It’s exhilarating to live on the edge of disaster, and it can feel pretty cinematic, too. If nothing else, modern film-making has educated us all on the precise kind of alarm sound you hear coming from a helicopter when it’s in trouble: Choplifter HD delivers this sort of thing brilliantly. Read more…
