Star Soldier

* Notice: You can't play this game on Android 8.0

A strange and evil presence is lurking in space. Crushing everything in its path, destroying spaceships full of innocent people, the brutal Starbrain is threatening the entire Galactic Empire. Starbrain, a giant computer programmed only for destruction, inhabits an enormous space station, guarded by enemy ships and robot creatures. To penetrate the station is a job for the most skillful and experienced Star Soldier - you! You'll be piloting Caesar, the fastest fighter ship in the Galactic Fleet, with an awesome arsenal of weapons at your finger-tips. Only you can end the fearsome Starbrain's spree of destruction, and restore peace to the galaxy!

You are the pilot of the starship Caesar. You've been called to command the compact craft through 16 regions of invaded space, where the out-of-control supercomputer Starbrain has taken over, threatening the peace of the cosmos. It's an intimidating assignment, given the two harsh penalties you'll suffer for failure.

The first is for dying; if you collide with any enemy ship or stray bullet during the course of a level and your ship explodes, you won't respawn on the spot. You'll instead be thrown back to the beginning of the level. And the second is for not being fast enough; if you don't attack and defeat the flying Starbrain boss at the end of each stage within the span of just a few seconds, the brain will escape. And you'll be thrown back to the beginning of the level.

It's actually possible to play Star Soldier for hours on end; without even dying; and stay locked into an endless loop of attacking the same level over and over again. You simply have to be successful in destroying each of the 16 regions' Starbrain bosses before you're allowed to move on. There's no running away from your mission.

There is, however, running away from your mission. Temporarily. Star Soldier's got an interesting hiding mechanic that allows you to duck underneath background objects to escape from incoming fire. You can attack a swarm of ships, quickly descend to take cover while they return fire, then pop out again to finish eliminating them; that's pretty cool. Unfortunately, though, it's also totally random.

You have no control over when you duck under cover and when you don't. There are background objects like space stations, floating asteroids and steel girders all over the place, but none of them clearly indicate that you're able to hide behind them. You'll only know after it's happened, automatically, and usually right when you didn't want to hide at all; because you can't use your weapon from a concealed position.

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