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Before you download Astro Fury, please check out the following videos. They will give you an idea as to whether its worth downloading. You can find the videos HERE (level 1-1), HERE (level 1 boss), HERE (level 5-1), HERE (help & level 1), HERE (installation & start) and HERE (level 7-10). You can also see other videos in the ‘Other Reviews and Videos’ section below.

Astro Fury

In Brief

Astro Fury is an old SHoot eM UP (Shmup) , developed by Dream Dale and published by Alawar back in November 2006. We were given a registered copy via alawar December 2006.

Introduction:

You are pitted against waves of aliens ships intent on destroying earth. You must protect the earth using your only defense, a single ship armed with plasma bursts and a stash of wicked secondary weapons. You must repel an alien army that is bent on your destruction. Take control of a ship that can be armed to the teeth if you collect the power-ups that drop when you destroy some of their fleet.

100 levels
40 enemies
16 bonuses
Colorful graphics

Edited reference accessed HERE. Reposted and added to by Whiterabbit-uk 1st Sept 2018

Installation:

Astro Fury downloads to a 18.9 MB zip file that unzips to three files, (a setup.gcd security wrapper, the set-up file and a read me). To install Astro Fury click on the orange key file labelled set up and not the setup.gcd file. Those with multiple hard drives can save games on any drive they wish, just change the default installation path. The newly installed game is 18.3 MB in size. The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed by the user if you prefer:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MyPlayCity.com\Astro Fury

Four shortcuts are installed to the desktop, three of which can be safely deleted (Play Online Games, MyPlayCity Games and shortcuts to a free online game which vary each week). Also, if you don't like icons installed to the quick launch task bar, make sure you uncheck the box when the ''additional tasks'' window appears (after the Select Start Menu Folder window)

The Game:

You are the sole survivor of earths space armada, sent to protect the earth from a massive attack by alien space ships! Their furious attacks restict your movements signficantly, their space supremacy is overwhealming, and their force is obviously far superior to yours; especially their boss ships. There are waves of enemy ships attacking you constantly, with a ruling boss ship coming at the end of every tenth wave. These boss ships are almost impossible to destroy unless suitable tactics are employed by you. Each successive boss becomes more difficult to destroy, so it is imperative that you collect as many upgrades and powerups as possible during each wave, and use the collected weaponry to destroy the boss ships rather than squander them on the inferior ships that precede each boss.

If you don't employ suitable tactics to survive each wave and destroy the enemy boss ships, earth is finished. ;) ! Astro Fury is an excellent space shooter for those who enjoy playing space shoot em ups.

You've got the right ship for the job, the equipment, and hopefully the skills to stay aliove until all the bosses are destroyed and humanity is saved from slavery or extinction by the attacking aliens.

Astro Fury has three skill levels, numerous stages that will end with a final battle against the boss. You are free to get upgrades - if you fight well enough and destroy many aircrafts. Every time you are attacked you need to dodge the enemy weaponry. Otherwise the number of lives will be decreased. Each level is full of a wide variety of aircrafts that differ in size, level of danger and speed. You need to adjust to the new types of enemies and make use of the upgrades that are made available to you quickly or you will be the one defeated.

This was one of the first games given away via the game giveaway of the day project back in 2006. It received a 91% positive rating from 139 votes. You can see the 35 comments made (including mine before I started to write fuller reviews) HERE. The game was given away a second time a year later where it received a positive 88% rating out of 269 votes and included 54 comments, which you can read ="HERE

Review by Whiterabbit-uk 1st Sept 2018

You can see Big Fish community reviews of HERE. There are several in-game videos of game play HERE (level 2), HERE (level 3-1), HERE (level 3 boss), HERE (level 4-1), HERE (level 5-10), HERE (level 10) and HERE (level 10 boss)

Conclusion:

Although a little dated now is is still an excellent game. If you like scrolling Space shooters, this is worth a download. In my opinion it’s not the best (I have hundreds of this genre), but for free you can’t go wrong. I did find some of the early levels difficult due to poor eye sight. The backgrounds in those early levels were lighter than later levels and because of this it made it hard to see enemy bullets especially when multiple explosions often masked the bullets, making it really hard to dodge. One of the things I like about this game are the power ups, though there isn’t any tutorial, so you’ll have to learn from experience about their usefulness. This is one of those games you’ll find hard to stop playing once you get into it.

If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via MyPlayCity 24/7 HERE; or If you prefer to purchase the game you can get it directly from Big Fish Games HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank MyPlayCity for giving away Astro Fury and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

Having problems installing today's game?

If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Astro Fury to work please visit the problems section, which you can find in the FAQ's thread HERE. Because the game is over 10 years old, you may need to play the game in compatibility mode, and, if you are using the latest monitors, you may need to adjust the screen resolution, but before you do, try the video setting changes via the compatibility mode first. Also read through the community’s comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted. The main issue we have is with the giveaway wrapper, which uses a Themida based code to protect the games executable. Unfortunately, Themida is also used to hide malware; so, as a precaution, some security software may block the installation and sometimes even delete the executable file. Blocking or deletion is usually determined partly by the way your computer is set up. Usually you'll get a message saying ''the file is corrupted'', but, the files are okay. There are a couple of things you can do to overcome this issue. The first is to reboot in safe mode with networking, install the game then reboot, or secondly you can (at your own risk) temporarily turn off your security, install the game, then turn your security back on. A note of reassurance to those that choose the latter and quicker method. The game giveaway team have been giving away games for over a decade (Dec 2006 & prior to that, via the main site 2 or 3 times weekly from Oct 2006 to Dec 2006) and have 'NEVER' given away a game infected with malware; they always test every giveaway with several of the top anti-malware suites to ensure all games are free from malware.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If Astro Fury doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE.

There are other free Shmup’s either from Steam (some totally free, others with the base game free) or from other free game and freeware sites and include Alien Crusader, Astro Lords: Oort Cloud, Space Fighter, Gangs of Space, Galactic Junk League, Naev, Astroflux, Fractured Space, Vega Conflict, Endless Sky, Subspace Continuum, Destination Sol, Echoes+, Cannon Lasers Rockets, Star Gunner and Star Conflict

You can also get the following 42 space oriented games (mainly shmups, but a few other related games included) via MyPlayCity for free Able Astronaut, Alien Outbreak, Alien Riposte, Alien Stars, Arcadrome, Astro Avenger, Back to Earth, Back to Earth 2, Battlestar Galactica, Chicken Invaders 2: The Next Wave Remastered, Chicken Invaders 3: Revenge of the Yolk, Chicken Invaders 4: Ultimate Omlette, , , Cosmic Proof, Crusaders of Space, Crusaders of Space 2, Crusaders of Space: Open Range, , , Galaxy Battles, Galaxy Guard, Galaxy Racing, Heavy Blast, Intergalactic Invaders, Last Piolot, Mars Rescue, Orbital Destruction, Pulsarius, Rage Runner, Space Conflict, Space Courage, Star Conflict, Star Defender 2, Star Defender 3, Star Defender 4, Star Prince, Star Raid Inception , Star Warrior 2: Defenders, Starlight Walk, UFO Biohazard Micromachines, Zeno assault. If those don’t sate your appetite for this genre, then check out the other free game sites; also I’m sure you’ll find literally hundreds of others, some excellent, some good and some not so good via freeware and abondonware sites. You’ll find loads of freeware shmups , (hyperlinks to too many to list via a forum) (20 freeware shmups including Ablation, Blue Wish Resurrection, Clean Asia, Demolition Gunner, End Effector: Accomplished Edition, Mogura 2, Titanion, Arachnos, Hyper Wars: The Mega Firestorm), and many more HERE and HERE. I’ve not linked to any abandonware sites due to the grey area they inhabit, but you can easily find those sites by Googling abandonware.

Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums).