Reviews - TyreForHyre

I have been keeping up with trailers and gameplay videos of this for awhile now, and was rather pumped to see it pop up when I booted up Desura today. My love of Alien Shooter and Cannon Fodder (My crew being named Jools, Jops, Stoo and last but not least R.J. for good 'luck'.) and just anything with an interesting Smash T.V.ish top down shooter gameplay colors this as a love letter to those classics. The random procedural content lends itself well to keeping this game fresh from station to station, and the controls are near pitch perfect. Something to note that is not mentioned on Steam (nor here that I can see) is that this -does- support gamepad control, which is what I prefer for top down shooters. It can feel just a bit weird with some of the 'grenades' like the rocket because to aim them you must tilt the thumbstick which fires your guns at the same time, putting you in a bit of a pickle at certain points. An option to bind controls of course would be most welcome, plus having an option to have an actual fire button for the gamepad instead of defaulting the thumbstick tilt to aim -and- fire would improve this very much. I can tell already this game is going to eat up many hours of my life in a very good way. Many thanks to Mr. Edwards for creating such a kick *** and addicting take on the top down shooter, and my thanks to Syphus for creating catchy tunes to tie it all up together. :D