HELI-COMMANDO 2017 Reviews

Airwolf on Steam nice !!!

Great game! Feels like Choplifter, Fort Apocalypse and Airwolf on C64.

HELI-COMMANDO 2017 is a 2D retro "arcade" style action game intended to look like a C-64 game, something it comes close to but doesn't quite nail, leaving a somewhat lazy looking mess of a game (considering this came out in 2017 alongside games like Breath of the Wild, Dirt 4 and Prey to name a few). Gameplay is fairly standard stuff for home PC games of the 1980's that died back in the 1980's, as you "fly" a 2D helicopter over a side view selection of platforms, shooting baddies and rescuing people. Only badly, because this really is slapped together badly, and while some small portion of the blame goes to Microsoft's rather crappy XNA Studio, that's been shown to have made much better games, so there's really no excuse there either. Let's go over the defects. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. That's right, only 2. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason. HELI-COMMANDO 2017 is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

This reminds me of the 8-bit computer game disks you could find in the bargain bin back in 1989. Except back then bargain bin games cost $10 in 1989 dollars, while you can get this game on sale for 49 cents in 2022--which is practically like being paid to take it in 1989 dollars! It's simple, frustrating, and not very impressive, but it mimics the kind of charm that came with low-effort games back when low-effort still required assembly language and a memory map of the operating system.

Sorry Pal, there's only room for cats and snowmen on the copter, no humans allowed! This game doesn't remind me any of the C64 games (yeah-yeah, Airwolf, Choplifter, H.E.R.O etc) BUT reminds me those mid-late 90's shareware shovelware titles which were bundled on CD's, before the Windows XP era. The game It's damn hard! Especially if you try to compete! It was 0.22€ on sale, had to grab it! Also: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2928574391