Lt Fly and the spiders from above is the latest game by teravison games.

At its heart is a block based puzzler, you know the sort of thing blocks fall down and you have to create rows of similar blocks to make them vanish. This of the main gameplay as the great great grandson of Tetris. It has a slight twist on that theme though as between the coloured brick are bullets, which when they get to the bottom give you more ammo.

Seems a strange concept, why would you need ammo in a tetris game, well to the side of the block puzzle are where “the spiders from above” come down for every bullet you uncover you get ammo for your cannon to take out the spiders. The game ends when you run out of health.

It adds an interesting time pressure to solving the puzzle board and the game is really well balanced. It keeps you on your toes but isn’t enough to completely overwhelm you.

Presentation wise it looks the business, lovely cartoony sprites, real character and its all very slick, as you’d expect as teravison are not a 14 year old kid in his bedroom type of developer. The only thing which I found annoying is the music does get on your nerves a bit after a while. Overall though its a really neat job of taking an old concept and working new ideas into in.

Go play Ltfly and the spiders from above.

A game which has been out for a while by Brad Bourne of fancy pants fame and C404.
A pretty formidable flash dev team and this game is the fruits of their hard work.

The game itself revolves around you controlling a massive eagle who has to feed her young who are in a nest on the side of the screen, you do this by swooping down and picking up civilians before they get to the right side of the screen. You can then drop them in the nest for feeding time. If the civilians manage to get all the way to under your nest they shoot your young. You get to the next level if you have fed up your eagle chicks a certain amount of people, or its game over if they take too many bullets.

The actual game kind of reminds me of rampage as its a proper monster masher, the premise seems quite straight forward but as the levels progress you get swat teams, fire engines, tanks, police, all turning up with all sorts of hardware to try and take down your young. You can then pick up people splat them on swat vans and then drop them on other vans and create massive chain effect explosions, it is real carnage on the later levels.

If you like something which isn’t too taxing on the brain cells and a bit of mindless violence it’s definitely for you. It doesn’t have too much long term appeal and does get a little repetitive after a while but its incredibly well put together and gives you a good 10 minute fix of destruction.

Go and play Nuclear Eagle.