Please excuse my absence over the last few days, I'm a little off colour at the moment. The whole family has been on and off ill for a few weeks now. My daughter and wife have both been off work; thankfully my wife has been cleared to be able to drive again and is returning to work with a reduced workload next week.

Mini Planet 2:

In Brief:
Mini Planet 2 is virtually the same game play wise and the same mechanic as the previous giveaway Mini Planet that was given away two weeks ago HERE

Apart from a different background image that comprises of two stitched together images. (When you pass into the second image you appear to disappear momentarily while the image switches). Also, in this second version you actually get a weapon to destroy the asteroids. So, when you first boot up the game you can either press the back arrow or the space bar to move back or shoot the oncoming asteroids. As with the first one, on spawning, you need to do one of these two actions immediately (preferably shooting), otherwise you get the You Lose message almost instantly due to one of the asteroids hitting you.

Ammunition is limited to ten shots; however, ammo is added every three or four seconds but only up to a maximum of ten.

You can see a video of game play HERE.

Controls:
Left Arrow = Move Left
Right Arrow = Move Right
Up Arrow = Move Forward
Down Arrow = Move Backward
Space = Fire Weapon
Mouse Click = Restart after the 'You Lose' message

Conclusion:
This is basically a copy of my original conclusion (with some additions and omissions) to the first game; although I think the addition of the weapon has actually made this game far too easy . Once I discovered there was a weapon I was able to complete the level after shooting two asteroids at the start and another one or two around the middle of the 100 seconds you get to complete the level. I repeated the game three times and each time the level was exactly the same. After completing the level, you just start the same level over and over.

The game could have be a reasonable coffee break game, but the lack of any other game play elements such as different ships, randomly generated asteroids, more background images, more levels and maybe some upgradeable weapons and enemy ships makes the game lack lustre and it quickly becomes very tedious to play; especially as there appears to only be the one 100 second level.

As I said when Mini Planet was given away last month i.e.

''In all honesty I could not recommend this game. It may keep you occupied for a few moments, but after playing it through a couple of times, you'll realise that there's only a few minutes of game play before the game ends abruptly. In my opinion it's not even a demo; at least the old demo games from years ago and those now available on Steam and other big name developer clients such as Ubisoft and Origin at least give you a decent hours worth of game play or several levels of game play that you could replay to your hearts content.''

Just take a quick look over on Steam and you can find some excellent free, very cheap or demos of various space shmups (SHoot eM UPS) for example there's an excellent demo of Vortex HERE, that not only gives you much more with respect to game play, but it's a much more challenging shmup than todays game. There's also a free game with vaguely similar game play called Pangaroids, that has more playability. Those took me less than a minute to find after Googling 'shmups on Steam'.

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game using Virus Total and it found zero hits from 61 antimalware engines. You can see the scan HERE