Tempest 4000
- July 17, 2018
- Llamasoft Ltd.
Is the classic arcade game welcome in the 21st century?
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Get on Xbox Games StoreTempest 4000 is a fast-paced, arcade-style shooter game where you control a claw-like ship blasting enemies as they approach through a geometric tunnel. With up to 100 levels, the game features improved graphics and audio over its predecessors, as well as an unlockable classic mode for a nostalgic experience. Your mission is to survive wave after wave of enemies while navigating through challenging, geometric environments.
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Reviews
- gameplay6 mentions
- 67 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- music4 mentions
- 25 % positive mentions
- 75 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- graphics2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- replayability1 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
Tempest 4000 Review
Is the classic arcade game welcome in the 21st century?
90%Tempest 4000 review
Tempest 4000 isn’t doing anything new or different - but this is an eminently playable, intuitive arcade reimagining that is well worth sinking some time into.
80%Tempest 4000 Review
Look, it’s a fun game, filled with flashing lights and so much digital detritus you'll need a shower after one run. But the thing is, you’ve played this before – not in this form in 4K on this particular format, but Tempest is Tempest and Tempest 4000 doesn’t really try to be anything else. Which is fine, but we just wonder whether hidden messages to Chuck E. Cheese founder Nolan Bushnell and a few extra visualiser effects are enough here. Minter’s schtick, for as much as we love it, feels like it’s outstayed its welcome for the first real time. Maybe Atari’s lawyers would have been better off keeping this particular project locked down? 
60%
