As many of you old-time gamers, that were lucky enough to have owned an Amiga in the 90s, might remember Team17's Super Stardust (SSD) game release in 1994. This was a glorified Asteroids clone. Well, can't really say its a clone any more. SSD was more of a logical progression on the Atari classic (raise your hand if you owned an Atari 2600 back in the 80s). Fast forward to 2007 and the game is is back, and this time its been revamped even further and now appears in crystal HD supporting 1080p. Noooice!
Super Stardust HD (SSDHD) comes with the 3 weapons used in SSD, 3 different types of asteroids (rock, gold, and ice), and a ton of enemies. I remember my PC friends drooling over the insane amounts of objects flying around on screen at one time all ray-traced up. I suppose these same friends would be stunned to see SSDHD in action today. I was when I first got my hands on the SSDHD and my wife is still awed by the shear chaos. That said, the new addon ups it up a notch.The addon pack, aka SSDHD Solo (*) adds three gameplay modes. In addition to Arcade, Co-op and Planet modes, the addon pack expands the game in Endless, Bomber, Time Attack, Survival modes. I'm not going to get into the descriptions of the different mode types but here are some videos for the new modes: Endless, Bomber, Survival. Time Attack mode simply pushes you to complete the level in the least amount of time. Another surprising and welcomed addon feature is the ability to switch to retro music; the original tracks from the Amiga games, some remixed.
IMO, this by far the best addon pack for any game on the PSN. You'll get tons of hours of gameplay, cursing, and ignoring of your significant other.
* If anybody can figure out why the 'Solo', please let us know. I figured its because this expansion pack dealth with single player mode only. Can we safely speculate that there will be a co-op pack coming out in the future? hmm.
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