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Gridrunner Revolution

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8.4 User Score:

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Based on 7 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Llamasoft

Developer: Llamasoft

Genre(s): Shoot-'Em-Up

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: RP (Rating Pending)

Release Date: September 25, 2009

Summary

A very modern updating of one of Llamasoft's earliest and most successful games.

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What The Critics Said

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Wired

Gridrunner Revolution should be played not for the paces it puts your thumbs through, but for the things it’ll do to your brain.

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Hardcore Gamer Magazine

If you’re familiar with Llamasoft, you know how crazy their games are. Gridrunner is not only a lot of fun, but tops their previous efforts.

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Games Master UK

Unashamedly retro and riotously good fun - another hit from the Llamasoft stable! [Dec 2009, p.71]

PC Format

An acquired taste, but not a bad one. Once your taste buds - or neuron receptors - are entirely killed. [Dec 2009, p.99]

Eurogamer

Whether you view this as a feature which ramps up the intensity or one which promotes claustrophobia depends entirely on how the game makes you feel. For me, it's a bit of both. But for a miserly 20 bucks (around £12.50 at time of writing), it's something of a shoe-in, for shmuppers and Jeff Minter fans alike.

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Destructoid

Ultimately, while Gridrunner Revolution may take far too long to get to the really good stuff, and though it may often lack clear player feedback, it is unquestionably worth your time. Its weirdly entrancing-but-ugly aesthetics will make you (however temporarily) regret the awful things you said about Jeff Minter after failing to beat level 40 of Space Giraffe, and its elegant, sort-of-shooter mechanics are as addictive as they are unusual.

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PC Gamer UK

Bursting with ideas, but occasionally collapsing under their weight, Gridrunner Revolution is good, but not baa-rilliant. [Dec 2009, p.96]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.4 (out of 10) based on 32 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Andrew P. gave it a9:
Fantastic game: beautiful, quirky and addictive. I take one point off for not having any suspend or save ability, which results in some rather long play sessions, but otherwise it's about the perfect shooter.

Mike D. gave it a9:
The magic of this game is that it has at it's heart a fascinating and deeply satisfying scoring mechanism which could only be born in a self funded indie environment. The bullet calligraphy and the way the game puts you in a blissful trance could never have been conceived or designed in a commercial environment. We're genuinely lucky there's developers like Llamasoft that are so far away from the box ticking eyes of big publishers that they can conceive and achieve so perfectly this sort of perfected experiment of a dynamic. This game is all about the journey.

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