MadSpace: To Hell and Beyond Reviews

MadSpace is without question the weirdest game I've ever played. Enemies explode into pieces that can be picked up and used as ammo, assuming you don't wait too long and they explode. The yellow energy orbs floating around the place will drain your shield on contact, if your suit energy is too full to house all of it and it overflows, with blue orbs doing the same in reverse. I got stuck very early in the first stage because switches don't look anything like switches. All of this is before the non-euclidean geometry and gallery shooter segment at the beginning that never returns. Then you get to some of the weaker elements. A lot of the weapons feel like repeats such as the Exploser, Plauncher, and Flamer (yes, really) which all shoot a projectile straight-on that explodes. The Missile Launcher and Tracker both shoot from one to five homing projectiles that explode. Thinking on it now I'm pretty sure the Lasgun, Megablast, and Needlegun are the only guns that DON'T fire explosives. You'll sometimes walk down a corridor only to take damage from a turret you couldn't see on the ceiling. The jetpack isn't mandatory most of the time, but if you DO run out of fuel you could be stuck. Sometimes you'll need to destroy a wall that doesn't look like it can be destroyed to progress. All that said, I do still recommend MadSpace because nobody else plays around FPS tropes like this. If you don't mind save scumming (and you shouldn't because if the game allows it, the devs are cool with it) this is a wholly unique game worth experiencing.