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Dollar Dash, PSN'e Geliyor

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Dollar Dash, PSN'e Geliyor

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Dollar Dash (2013)

Genre: Multiplayer Action Developer: Candygun Games Price: £7.99 (or currently around $5 as part of the Indie Gala DIRT bundle)

Dollar Dash bills itself as a frenetic top down multiplayer versus action game. Well, it's certainly got the top down bit right, and as for 'frenetic', it most definitely is 'fast and energetic in a wild and uncontrolled way' (thanks Google!) with a rather detrimental emphasis on the 'uncontrolled'. Multiplayer action, though? Hah, don't make me laugh. Sure, it's got netcode and you can most definitely host a server, but lets face it; no matter how long you wait for someone to play this game with you're going to be playing with bots. Firstly this is because nobody owns Dollar Dash; despite it having been on a recent IndieGala bundle quite recently I don't have a single friend who has ever played it. Secondly, and more importantly, nobody will ever connect to your game because then they would have to play Dollar Dash, and this would be a massive error.

In Dollar Dash, four players (or, as we have already established, one player and three bots) play as bank robbers and must compete with each other to collect the most cash. Cash, weaponry and equipment is periodically scattered randomly across the playfield, and players must collect the cash and deposit into the vans that occasionally arrive at the edge of the screen. A player can only carry $1000 (ten cash pickups) at a time, and whenever they are hit with a weapon, they will drop $100 of this. As a result, the game is one where players are constantly out to destroy each other in an attempt to hold onto the cash or steal it off of their rivals. There's a wide selection of (oddly mostly nonlethal) weapons including tasers, snowballs, bottles, potted cacti, boulders and so on for players to throw at each other, and a section of traps and other powerups to help players get that edge over the other players.

But it doesn't help because the game just isn't that fun. Most of the time the action devolves into a mess of everyone just hitting each other repeatedly, resulting in everyone being stunned. Actually hitting each other with weapons is difficult at range (the weapons themselves are often so silly as to be entirely useless), and punching is mostly just ineffective. Movement is slow and gets slower as you collect more cash, matches take far longer than you would really hope with this sort of thing, and despite the fact that the game has very little variety and absolutely no depth, the developers seem to expect you to want to manually unlock a ludicrous amount of extra content including perks, hats and even character icons. As lovely as Dollar Dash's cel-shaded take on robbery and comic violence may look, it feels like hard time playing it, and that lack of fun may just be the biggest crime of all.

How long did I play? - 1.0 hours Did I finish it? - No Would I finish it? - No

[playistic]

GamesBeat Giveaway Week: Day 6 (PC and Xbox 360 games)

It's day six of our week-long giveaway contest, and we've got two more games up for grabs: Retrovirus for the PC (via Steam) and Dollar Dash for Xbox Live Arcade. http://goo.gl/trQRi #Playistic

[livefromthearcade-blog]

Dollar Dash

From the lazy school of trailers, here's the game's intro with some gameplay footage tacked on the end.

The best thing about this trailer? The bit where it says: 'coming October 2012'. The developers gave themselves five extra months and it's still this bad?

I've had visits to the dentist more fun than this.

[livefromthearcade-blog]

Dollar Dash – Load of trash, save your cash

Game: Dollar Dash

Released: 2013-03-06

Age rating: 12+

Price: 800 MSP / £6.80

Genre: Top down thief 'em up

Gameplay: The premise is a simple, and fun, one. You are a thief grabbing as much loot as you can and then getting it back to the getaway vehicle. The problem? The three other thieves out to do the same.

You can attack each other with a whole host of weapons and power-ups, none of which make much sense and there's no real indication as to what each does. Sure, there are three types; projectile, trap and the special type, but until you use them you'll have no idea what good they are. Even then you'll be left pondering why you can't pick up a new weapon until you've used up all the ammo on the old one.

Coupled with the slow pace this makes the game instantly very frustrating. In short, it's just not any fun.

Visuals and Sound: The art style is...interesting. It's not boring but the thieves themselves have permanently fixed grins and scary eyes.

Not that you'll see any of that outside the menu screens, when actually in game the characters are tiny, which doesn't help the already awkward gameplay any.

The music is okay, somewhere between jazz and Austin Powers, the sound effects aren't terrible, just uninteresting.

Like it:

Fun concept.

Obligatory customisation options, including hats. Yay!

Loathe it:

Creepy looking thieves.

Characters run really slow, making you feel permanently helpless.

Tutorial is rubbish and makes the learning into a sheer cliff face when facing real players.

Characters are too small on screen to see properly, god help you if you have a small TV.

No single player.

Worth a purchase?: This game feels clunky, slow and miserably unfair. It's online only status means you'll have no-one to play with in a month anyway, unless you can convince some of your more gullible friends this might be fun to play sat round your TV.

However, if you want local multi-player there are lots of options far better than this. Bomberman immediately springs to mind due to the similar top down perspective. Bomberman is around 1.4 billion times better though.

To give you some indication of how strongly I disliked this; you get 30 minutes of online trial time, I didn't use it all up writing this review...

Rating: 1/5

Also available on: PS3 and PC.

[playistic]

Dollar Dash is not worth your dimes (review)

Developer Kalypso Media's multiplayer action melee game has some serious issues. http://goo.gl/LzfCj #Playistic