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A possible sleeper hit?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was kind of a creeper game I guess. I've never heard of Glory Days 1 and I didn't know anything about this game until I was home with it in my DS really. Initially you are given the choice of English, French, and Spanish so FYI international gamers, you can pick this one up. From the menu you are given the choice to do the Campaign, Battle, and do Multiplayer aside from the standard credits and options.

I've only done campaign mode so far and basically you use the touch screen on the bottom to pilot a vehicle on the top to accomplish various mission objectives like rescuing civilians or taking enemy ground. The battlefield is horizontal and kind of plays like a tug of war. The graphics are simple but well done, kind of like somewhere in between Metal Slug and Gunstar Heroes in my opinion. On one side you have the enemy and its various bases which can spawn enemy units and then on the other side you have your side which does the same. You may only pilot your one vehicle (there are different vehicles to earn and unlock each having its own attacks and such) via the top but you can watch the progress of the NPC allies you have on the bottom. Generally speaking your mission is to aid the advancement of your NPC troops in to enemy territory to steal their bases which consequently earn you more income and allow you to spawn more NPC units (tanks, soldiers...). As the vehicle you are piloting becomes damaged you may return all the way to your base camp to reload and heal since you only have a certain number of lives per mission. Generally I found myself returning more often to reload then to heal.

The game plays for the most part with the stylus since that's how you do all of your moving. You can use the D-pad instead of using the stylus but somehow during game play I switched to stylus mode and just stuck with it. This makes for some awkward controls at times since the game sometimes gives you a vehicle that has weapons and actions mapped to both the d-pad and the buttons on the right so you are sometimes forced to be a little ambidextrous at times. This brings up one of my major gripes with the game, there's no tutorial mission or anything like that. You either figure it out by playing or read it in the instruction manual. For the initial missions you will spend a lot of time dying and redoing the mission trying to get a feel for the game. Missions do get pretty difficult as you progress but again I think it's more of an issue of becoming familiar with your objectives and the best way to achieve them rather than chaotic difficulty that you might find in similar games. It's not easy, but once you clear the learning curve the game can really be a blast.

In summary, if you are patient enough to learn the game then you will be rewarded with a fun game. If you're the easily agitated controller tossing type then this game may be a bit too much frustration and you may want to pass on it.

Plays like a flash game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

You wouldn't ever know it by reading the description here or the back of the box, but this is basically just a flash game. The whole thing is a very shallow side-scroller that you can probably beat in a couple of days

Basically, you always start out on the right, the enemy always starts on the left. They spawn ground troops that march towards you, taking over bunkers along the way. Your troops do the same, marching towards them. You win the level when your troops make it all the way to the left of the screen, and you lose when the enemy troops make it all the way to the right

You operate either a plane or helicopter, flying above the battle and bombing or strafing the ground troops below. So basically the game is just you constantly flying to the left, bombing, flying right, landing to re-arm, flying back left and bombing again. Occasionally you'll get special weapons like paratroopers or missles, but they don't change the game enough to matter

The whole thing is pretty enjoyable, but I've played almost the exact same game for free online, only with knights and dragons or aliens or whatever instead of modern looking army troops. I bought the game yesterday and I'm already starting to get tired of it

So anyway, that's a better run-down on the actual game mechanics than you'll find anywhere else that I've scene. I hope this review helps you to decide whether or not you want the game

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