As I said earlier, career gets really hard – many players won't be able to accomplish some of those things. The career Achievements involve beating every level, five-starring every level, and completing all optional objectives. ScreamRide has 49 Achievements worth 1,000 GamerScore.
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Just head to the Level Center, press Left Trigger to search by name, and search for Windows Central to find it! Be sure to give the track a high rating after you complete it. We happen to have a track titled Windows Central demo track for you to try. The idea is to prevent people from creating impossible goals.Įven if you're not the creative type, browsing and downloading other players' levels can provide nearly limitless entertainment. You can save the track at any time, but it won't become shareable until you complete the level and complete all objectives. EngineerĪfter completing the basic level layout, master builders must set the scores for star ratings and assign optional objectives. It's good fun watching the buildings shatter and fall to the ground. Once you figure out a level's gimmicks (like where the chain-reaction explosives are stored), you'll be able to knock down one or more buildings per throw. The actual destruction is extremely well done, by the way.
I love the increased precision of the roller coaster levels shame we can't choose between roller coasters and ball pitching for every level. One of the car types can actually fly with precision until it strikes a target, which feels a bit like hang gliding in Nintendo's Pilotwings series. Other destruction levels let players launch an actual roller coaster car and then pilot it to varying extents through the air. Throwing this way is doable, but it never feels good. The behind-the-back camera angle causes the aiming line to be obscured for much of the arm's rotation. The arm just keeps spinning in a circle, but the guide line that appears will help you know when to let go. After adjusting the throw strength with the trigger buttons, you have to hold A to aim. Think of it as a 3D version of Angry Birds, only with unintuitive aiming. Most levels involve aiming a pitching machine that throws a spherical projectile at your targets.
These levels charge players with firing a vehicle at islands filled with buildings in order to destroy as much of them as possible. ScreamRide's odd-mode out is Demolitions Expert. The optional objectives can be a lot of fun, but they also get pretty hard (and beyond my abilities) in some levels… Trying not to derail the car in later ScreamRider levels especially inspires frustration since you have to restart if you make even one mistake. Sometimes they're gimmes that you would do anyway, but often they require playing skillfully or differently than normal. I had to backtrack and improve my scores/star ratings for several levels before I could unlock the sixth area in ScreamRider, for instance.įurther adding replay value, each level also has two or more optional objectives. Instead, you must achieve a specific cumulative star rating for that game type in order to move on to the next area. Just clearing all of the levels in an area won't unlock the next area. You'll receive a score-based star rating for each level you clear. The game is divided into six unique areas, each with multiple levels per game type. Progress in each game type is separate from the others, so you can focus on the one(s) you like and save the rest for later.
The career offers three separate game types to choose from: ScreamRider, Demolition Expert, and Engineer. But we're getting ahead of ourselves! Career structure Sadly, the difficulty spikes to such unfair levels that I might never get to see that ending. Nothing too surprising, but it at least made me curious to see the conclusion. But in later areas, the game hints at the larger history of its world and an ongoing story. The cinematics are overly sterile and devoid of personality, at least early on. These can be skipped, but I wish they could be turned off entirely. You'll also see short in-game cinematics featuring the uber-bland coaster riders/test subjects before and after every level. Each time you reach a new area of the campaign, you're treated to a fly-by video of the area while a blatantly GLaDOS-like robotic voice talks about the area. ScreamRide's campaign actually has a light story to it. Nobody wants to ride a basic vanilla coaster they want to try exciting ones.
Besides introducing gameplay elements at a gradual pace, career milestones will unlock a variety of pieces and environments for sandbox mode. Before you dive into ScreamRide's sandbox mode, you'll want to give the career mode a go.
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