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Astro Avenger 2 is the sequel to the 3D space shooter from Sahmon Games. In this arcade installment, you take the role of a lone space craft off to fend aliens in a quest to vanquish their big bad mother ship. And to do just that, you seriously need some firepower, right? Well, fortunately, that's what you will get.

The objective of the game is for you to use your mouse buttons to fire lasers and shoot rockets at incoming enemy fleets. Use your mouse also to maneuver your space craft and evade enemy artillery. What I liked about the controls is how they are very responsive to your every move, and with that, comes easy evasion on many of the incoming attacks.

While most of the time, you'll be shooting and evading, you'll also have to collect power-ups from time to time too. Power-ups will greatly increase your chances for survival and will sometimes even add plasma to your inventory. Basically, plasma is the money currency in the game, and you must collect plasma in order to upgrade your ship and weapons, or buy rockets and probes - little unmanned ships that aid you in battle.

Astro Avenger 2 is a fun game with great production values as you may see from the graphics and in-game music. Besides this, the game is very much challenging too since when I talk about hordes of enemies; you'll definitely encounter swarms and swarms of them flying towards you. Adding up the fact that you'll need to balance your energy use whenever using lasers, this game is definitely much more dynamic than your usual shoot-em-up.

But still, the game is still like any arcade shoot-em-up so besides from the awesome 3D graphics and creative boss battles, you will not encounter additional features or mini-games to play. That's fine by me though, because honestly, I play this game with the idea of blasting some space metal anyway, and in this criterion, the game successfully delivers.

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Lego Indiana Jones, a video game for the Playstation 2 system (versions available for other major systems, as well) is a Lego re-creation of the classic trilogy of Indiana Jones films (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade). That means Lego toy characters play through the plots of the three films. This Lego game is highly entertaining and quite challenging at times. It's definitely worth the buy!

Fans of Lego and fans of Indiana Jones will love this game. Kids will love it (and with only mild cartoon violence - rated E for Everyone, 10+ - it's appropriate for most age groups), and adults will enjoy it, too!

For me, the two player option is among the best aspects of this game. A second player can join in or drop out at any time, and it makes solving the game's puzzles a little easier at times to have that second player helping out.

There isn't a single thing I dislike about this game. At times the puzzles can be tough to figure out, but the game is so much fun that I can't lose my patience in figuring them out! With unlimited "lives" the game lets you try again and again until you find the right course. Each character uses a different tool or weapon, so you end up utilizing all of the available characters (over 60 of them!) at some point during the game.

When I finished playing the game, I wanted to play it again! Another great thing about this game is that there are two modes of play: Story Mode and Freeplay Mode. Once you play through the story, you have the option of going back into each level and playing with a variety of characters. More secrets are available upon the second time through, including secret, unlockable characters!

This game made me laugh out loud on several occasions! The creative re-creations of certain key scenes from the films are hilarious!

I recommend this game because it's so much fun! It is honestly one of the most fun games I've ever played. Alone or with a partner, this game provides hours of entertainment!

My husband and I are both in our late 20s, so this game is just perfect for us. We grew up on these films (and after playing Lego Star Wars, we just had to give this one a try), but we also enjoy playing these games with our nieces and nephews who can appreciate the Lego humor, too. Next on Lego's list is a Lego Batman game, available Fall 2008. You can bet I'll be playing that game, too!

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