First Look: Comet Crash

This game is AMAZING. It’s the most fun I’ve had playing co-op in a game like EVER and I’ve been a gamer for as long as I can remember. I can recommend this to everyone, especially those of you who enjoy tower defense games (although this is a lot more than just that) and playing co-op with/against your friends!

Is the PSP version of Comet Crashed considered a PSP mini game? I’m getting all confused between games like Thexder Neo and Loco Roco being cheaper than PSP retail games, but not considering themselves mini or having features not available in minis.

Any help on that point would be appreciated.

Oh by the way John, is there any chance of either DLC or a sequal?

*Sorry for double post – this site really needs an edit button*

Ack, I got confused with Gravity Crash and Comet Crash. Disregard.

2-4 players offline? Interesting, I really appreciate tower defence games

I don’t like tower defense games at all but I have a friend who really does who is finally giving in and selling his Xbox 360 to buy a PS3 Slim (mainly for Uncharted 2 for obvious reasons). I’ll be sure to show him this.

That’s great news John, I’ll be first in the virtual line to get that DLC!

This game is a true killer. I bought this from the US Store (as I couldn’t bear waiting an eternity for the EU release) and I can tell that in gameplay this is a 10. The offensive aspect really enriches the tower defense gameplay.

Also, the game is visually super clean and it *never* drops in framerate with hundreds of units on screen moving around and lasers and whatnot everywhere.

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere before but the style is very reminiscent of Total Annihilation (PC RTS classic from 1998) and it’s spiritual successor Supreme Commander.

This game is really, really good.

I’ve seen such a game already on a Amiga or Atari I believe. Still this one seems also very addictive

looks like a interesting title! The addition of co-op story and local multiplayer will certainly set this title apart from the rest.

Assuming its priced competitively, will this game have a demo or could you point us to some reviews you feel capture the feel of your game?

Deja vu. This was published on the US PSN in April, did you get stuck in a time warp?

As i said in the other post DLC is the future. I will definetly buy this game boss out

Had a look round the Metacritic scores and seems that the game is liked from most outlets although i’ve never visited a few of them. I’m guessing there wont be a demo released for the game as you didn’t mention it

OK cool. i’ll take a look when it comes out seems like a promising TD game

Is this going to launch alongside the release date of the PSP Go?
Because having this game on my brand new PSP would be soooooo kewl

Thank you so much for bringing this game to Europe!

I’ve been waiting from the day I first say the game for it to come to Europe.

hmm that “Pelfast” was a link lol i thought someone spelled “Belfast” lol

anyway will there be a demo?

the community feedback alone has sold it for me to be honest.

Slightly random question, but what is the definition of an “indie” games company? Does that mean you all play guitar and wear tight jeans? :/

I’ve been looking forward to this since it was first announced for the US a long time ago. A nice surprise to hear this is coming to PAL regions after all.

Unsure what to make of it really. Will have to wait for a demo really, as there are so many of these games released lately, it’s a bit like shovelware on Wii. So many lookalikes with only 1 or 2 really good ones.

It’s great that there is a lot of things able to happen on screen at once, but this can also be really drastic in ruining the experience as well due to the over crowding on screen.

For me, Monsters is probably my favourite Tower style game and anything else in the genre really has to up the stakes. Just seems like an easy cop-out to produce something that is already in the markets heavily.

Still, will hold judgement till a demo arrives, as finding no demos when the games are released to be one of the major downsides to the PSN Network. All Xbox titles for XBLA have demos when they are released with an easy option for purchase. Sony should be demanding the same thing for all PSN Devs too. Would go a long way to pleasing the end users.

aaaah, independent. Jesus, thats pretty obvious.

What will the price be for this title?

Seems like a fun game, I look forward to trying it out.

@capeview – the difference is that the psn is free for users, xbla is subsidised by subscriptions. m$ charges no further publisher costs (outside of normal costs) to host content, whereas publishing on the psn encurs (small’ish) additional charges to developers. this would make it unfair to make demos mandatory, because if you are a small company with no major publisher behind you, it’s difficult to know how much this will cost upfront, and whether you have the budget for it. sony encourages demos, but it couldn’t demand them and then charge bandwidth costs for the privilege.

@john – will the EU release have the additional content that’s coming as a free update for the US version?

1000 units?
that’s my idea of strategy, have loads more units than the other guy.
>:) that’s supposed to look a bit like a devil.

@23 In fairness though, there are quite a few demos where all you need for the full game is an unlock key. So in essence, you only need to post the demo. You don’t need to post up a seperate full game

@24
As I see it, the EU version launches with the added content from the beginning.

@26 – yeah, but then a developer would still get charged the bandwidth, regardless if someone then bought the game or not. so it’s still not possible to know how much providing a ‘free’ demo will cost. somtimes a demo is a lot smaller in size than the full game, so less bandwidth, and therefore lower costs. for a massive publisher, the costs can be more easily absorbed by marketing budgets, but most psn games are not by big developers/publishers, and don’t exactly sell by the hundred thousands.. sony does have a pub fund for small developers, which for some projects will match development costs in return for a share of guaranteed revenues, maybe sony could use part of its own fund to absorb the cost of a demo in those circumstances..

If you had given it to us when you gave it to the US i’d have bought it. But you didn’t so i wont.

Hello pelfast and thanks for making a great looking game which i might say you have given a great name ‘comet crash’ love it! I love the tower defence genre which pj mosters got me into and i enjoyed savage moon as well. I just wondered if this game might have a editor mode which you could use to create your own levels with just to spoice this up! Anyway it looks great any idea on the price and date of release in the Uk?

@john, will there be an “onslaught mode” where you can just fight off a never ending stream of enemies, and will there be a map editor as DLC perhaps? This looks amazing, I was going to download savage moon but it looks like I’ll hold no to my pennies until this comes out!

What a great find and a great game – well done Pelfast, and I hope you make some money out of this game !