Game Article:
Achilles An addictive swashbuckling, gory game, Achilles is a barbaric game with all the sword action. The game is level based and you need to clear each level by eliminating the final Greek god. It is your mission to kill them, and you need more than assistance in handling them. For the game play, you have a few major things to consider. Your skills and power ups are the most important of them and then comes the level design. The game is level based, and you need to eliminate all the enemies in the level to clear. You can use fighting skills to kill them all, and you can even move around and collect weapons from the dead soldiers. Each level has three stages, where the final stage is the Boss level, and you need to kill a Greek god in it. Apart from the fighting, you have power ups to consider. You need to collect health vials and ammunition to some of the weapons, while the majority of weapons do not require ammunition. You can even switch weapons while fighting enemies, which gives more options in the fighting arena. Your statistics are another important factor in the game, and you can keep a tab on the enemies killed in the map. You have a fixed number of lives in the game and you need to clear each stage in these allotted ones. The bosses are considerably faster than their units, and you need more skills and hits to take them out. Overall, the game is extremely addictive because of the gory action and bloody fights in game. A good weapons system, an addictive background score and a good graphics sub system make this game more enjoyable than the rest.