Honestly, a little boring. I didnt die once for the first 8 missions. Completed the game to the end, and ready to delete. Ok for about a 1/2 hour worth of entertainment. Thanks.

forgot url to be added to post 20 dido http://i45.tinypic.com/33viuxx.jpg




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Thanks Dido

in order to run it in windowed mode i added the game to D3DWindower and then once the game loaded press ALT+ENTER. tadaaa game in a window.


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Thanks will have to try and remember that for next time this happens.

@ mod you stated current alwar free game is sprill! Also quoted me to uninstall gamebox! I read that info gotd forum! Worked twice then gamebox wouldn't reinstall after I uninstalled it!! Lost helic from this company so did recovery for game and old gamebox! Got both! New game from alwar is Sunshine acres 35 mb game! Might try experiment - make zip copy out of program files of gamebox & save it to replace gamebox after unistall old game box! Per gotd forums there is problem with gamebox and weird experimentation might be needed! GOTD thumbs up!!


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Thanks Dido.

I think what a lot of people are forgetting (or not knowing actually in the first place), is that this was developed as a portable device game (phones and tablets), which explains the auto-shooting, and the lack of instructions and settings. Most portable device games have to keep the storage memory overhead very low, so there's usually little in the way of "bells and whistles" most people are used to getting in PC games (things like instructions, tutorials and settings like resizing windows and such). It's a $6.99 PC port of an Android game and it looks like it. For free, it's priced about right.




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Good point Bob. :)

Sorry Stephen, tried about 10 different tools and even an app that forces windowed modes for all other games i tried to window with it, no luck. they got this one tied up real tight


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Thanks for trying. Much appreciated.

I easily figured out what to do in this game. someone whos not a regular game player might struggle to understand it so adding simple instructions would be good idea or even an intro demonstration within the game itself.

The game reminded me of the old snes ones I used to play so i must admit i did enjoy playing it. I found it really easy to complete, so this may be better for younger players.

It would be nice to see an option for a player to be able to play there own individual game and unlock there own levels. I noticed that once the level has been played it remains unlocked for others who then play the game. This can be annoying when theres more than one player and someone has already unlocked everything removing the challenge.

Also the option of multiplayer might be fun??? maybe seeing who can shoot the highest scores. This would then add extra play to the game.


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Thank you for your feedback

Better than no giveaway at all, huh? I mean, I'm an optimistic, "glass is half full" person. The graphics isn't actually that bad. The helicopter shoots by itself, which is bizarre. I hate mouse control. I prefer a joystick (or a keyboard, to map a joystick to it). I also thought it was something like Helic 2, but Helic is a lot more sophisticated. Still, this is not the worst game in the world. IMMO, better than, say, Pet Show Craze, given away a few weeks ago. Didn't vote thumbs up or down.


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Yes you are right on both counts; i.e. better than no game at all and better than some. :)

Glad to know air assault is better - not going to download due might be problem with portable and I got dialup?? I checked helic by same company which I installed as portable in my external harddrive and it's gone?? Might be only problem with me, but don't have room in my main computer! Would be nice if someone who installs portable to let us know if game is still there for next time if it's offered again! I noticed some things don't last if installed as portable!

HI WHITERABBIT, I tried replying to your PM on the forum but your box was full. You can delete this post once you read it since it has nothing to do with today's give away:

Yes @ Whiterabbit. I am an unemployed freelance writer and haven’t found a stable venue to write so I’ve had to use a free dial up service here in California for as long as it remains in service.

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Thanks for telling. Have you had much published?

Yes actually I have a website here: http://computeraddict1962.wordpress.com; I am a contributor on Hub Pages:http://deborahcrow.hubpages.com/ I am also a graphics artist and have a profile on both People Per Hour and Freelancer for jobs. Most of my work is centered around blogging and Forum board entries with and without chat room support. I have no specific genre of topics I stick with unless it's into the Adult themes which as a Christian I do not write.

When I first started, I contributed to forum boards much like this one and had up to 16 different profiles all different that I maintained for a Christian forum. I also had another forum on Wireless Communication but with this one, I knew 0 about the subject, just in that I owned a cellphone. The forum turned out to be about the wireless cell towers and their materials, technology and the people behind the scenes there. I somehow got through it though. You can see the majority of what makes up my work on People Per Hour (http://www.peopleperhour.com/people/deborah/article-blog-and-forum-artist/236356).

I should advertise but I don't hold degrees just me doing the authentic work that I do and with my dial up, I am slow but reliable.

Thanks for asking :)

Deborah


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Hi Deborah, thanks for sharing. always nice to know more about our community members. I have two degrees, but they never helped me get the jobs I really wanted and those jobs I did get I was always more qualified than the people around me and was seen as a threat. (Not that I was).

Still, I never regretted going to university, it opened the world to me and I met my wife there as well. We are still together and happily married. :)


Good luck with your career. The longer you continue the more likely your success.

The Game downloaded fast enough. Installed to Default Games folder on Default HD.

There are 3 problems that I need to complain about right off the bat.

1. There are no included instructions. If there are any I could not find them. Which means I have no clue on what I am doing or what the objective is. Blow up the enemy is fine and all that but it would help If I knew what the weapons where how to use them and how to change weapons and missiles Plus how do I change the view.

2. there are no options to change the desk top Image size it dominates my entire monitor at a much lower graphic setting than the one I am currently using. My default monitor resolution is 1280X1024. this game looks like it is running at 800X600 maybe 1024X800 but it is damned hard to tell.

1 the Game starts off minimized to the tool bar where I have to click on it to load it. it takes a few seconds before the game begins so you are staring at a black screen. I hate that it is full screen and not windowed.

Where are my options of choice to turn off there custom curser and to start the game in windowed mode. I would also like to use the game on the graphics my monitor handles with ease the full 1280X1024

This game is slow to respond but if you pause it mid game you can reset the mouse sensitivity in the small options list. you can mute the games sound and choose from 3 types of helicopters thats it.

I give this Helic 2 game a miserable 4 out of 10. I rate it this low because it needs to go back to the developers and to be updated for the 21 century. This is not the 1990's anymore. And I was playing games at the arcade in the 1990s that where 100 times better than this one..

If you missed today's give away don't worry about it, it truly is not worth the time to install play it at least not as it is today but with a few tweaks it could easily become a good game. It will still be a bit outdated but I think they could make this game more playable with just a few changes.

If you do download and install the game and find that you don't like it the removal of the game is very simple because it installs to a single folder on your Default OS drive and Default Games folder. Cleaning up after its installation was easily done I simply deleted the folder it installed to so there was no need to un-install it or run a scan for left over registry keys.

To the games developer please add

1. instructions to your games.

2. add options for the player to either start the game in windows mode or in full screen. Do not automatically start the games off as full screen & minimized to the tool bar. It is better to start the game off as a window that can be resized to full screen if the player decides to go that route.

3. Add the option to play the game in different resolutions from the 800X600 mode to 2560X1280 Give us the options to play it in 43 or in wide-screen.

4. Add keyboard and joystick control options not everyone enjoys playing video games with the mouse only.

Developer please take note that Monitors have changed since the late 1990's it is bad that your games have not changed in the same time frame!.

I have given it a thumbs up for being a cool shoot em up action game but it really needs to revamped and reworked to make it more user friendly..

This game could be great with a few tweaks to make it more 2013 friendly. as it is there is nothing special about this game for me to bother keeping it so I have deleted it to save the 225 MB of space it used up.

Thank you Fly Games for providing this game to Game Give Away Of The Day. Thank you Game Give Away Of the Day for bringing us another game to play.. Hopefully next weekends games will be as good as this weekends if not even better. =)

I have included a couple of screen shots resized to 640X480 to fit this forum. They where taken using the old school print screen and paste in to paint method. On a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine.

Signed
Rick Frog



[IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/au9zsx.jpg[/IMG]

http://tinypic.com/r/au9zsx/6



[IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/f4c42.jpg[/IMG]

http://tinypic.com/r/f4c42/6


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Thanks for your feedback Rick. :)

Yes, it is really easy. But it's nice, i like it.
I noticed, sometimes you shoot one enemy and the one next to it dissapeares... ?

Superweapon on left mouseclick is really annoying!

THX GGATOD

Ok Win 8 x64 Pro. Full screen. Lowered vol on music which fits game.
Auto shooting takes bit getting used to but since lot thrown at you higher levels that's needed. For me mouse click fired one of Specials. otherwise dodgem play. For free it's a fun flashback. Play & forget. As mentioned 6/10 adult but 7/10 for free. Thanks guys.

A possible introduction video showing killing from an helicopter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bODoB6Bl4s

Hi,
works out of the box on my WIN 8 Pro laptop (Core i 7, GeForce 680m, 1920x1080 default resolution)
Downloaded, extracted, installed, link created, started:
works without any problem.
Except for the sound and the helic (one out of three) there seems to be nothing to configure.

I played only the first Level so far.

It seems to be a very simple game, just to relax.
But it is free, so I recommend not to complain.
I'll have some relaxed fun with it.

to # 6:
As I expected, as usual you shoot at planes.

Hi.wo sind die guten Shoot em ups von früher ?Dieses Spiel ist einfach nurSss.

No, I WON'T figure it out. I will NOT play any shootin' up game unless I know exactly what I'm SHOOTIN' UP. Sorry. PASSIN' ON THIS ONE.

I normally don't trust developers that give me a 403 on their homepage (403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.)
However I trust GGOTD (and the great white hopping one) so downloading and "testing" this.

A bit deeper searching (well, a whois lookup) revealed that fly-games.com is actually part of the Alawar network which eases the mind a little bit

will try if I can get you some screens Stephen. I can't promiss results of course. If succesfull I will send them trough the forum PM system.


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Thanks Whizzy. For some reason, my Capture Wiz Pro won't capture images from this game in full screen and there's no way to get it windowed. It probably explains why there's no images found via Google either.

I DON'T get it! There's NO pictures and no comments to show WHAT YOU ARE SHOOTIN' UP. WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTIN' UP?

Are you shootin' up cute, lil animals as they graze in a field? Are you shootin' up poor, lil orphans playing on the playground at their school? Are you shootin' up people as they worship God at their churches and temples? Are you shootin' up braves soldiers fighting terrorists who have bombed a poor guy's laundromat?

WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTIN' UP?!


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I'm sure you'll figure that out swampy. ;-)

start game, turn game sound off, put relaxing music on, close eyes, move mouse side to side for 30 minutes. Very therapuetic, and the game is that easy to beat, you probably just did it with your eyes closed.

Thanks GGAOTD

i have a question : this http://soft.giveawayoftheday.com/Air_Assault_53566/ isn't the same game ?

Sacha

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Hi Sacha,

No, they aren't the same game, Air Assault is a much better game. Shoot & Scroll (IMO) is a poor copy of air Assault, with gameplay that's too easy and only 10 levels.

Installed easily on MSWindows 7HP 64bit.
Had to make my own desktop shortcut, but that has been the norm for these games that are extracted instead of installed. No prob.

Game is easy, it's 0137 my time, and I've already beaten the game. It was actually about 10 minutes ago, but they don't say the game is complete, it just keeps repeating level 10. So a couple of times through level 10.

Only options are Sound on/off and Music on/off. Game automatically shoots weapons and missiles, when click the mouse button to fire, it fires the special weapons, which there is a limit of 4 per round (if you spend your level points on them).

Game, however, doesn't keep score, so there is no high scores list.

For me, a non-gamer, I'd rate it about 4 out of 10. For youth, I'd give it about a 6 out of 10, and about an 8 out of 10 for grade-schoolers. Gamers would probably rate this a lot lower.

Helix itself is a lot more fun than this, even the older fighter-plane games from this company featuring WWI, WWII, and Cold War planes were a lot more fun (wish they were back, and along with Helix had the memory violations and particle count errors fixed).

If you have young kids or just want a time-waster, then this game is okay.

These are all my opinions.

Downloaded/installed fine on Vista 64-bit. Didn't have any trouble running it.

Graphics are all right, not very interesting or flashy. The music is energetic.

The game would be a lot better if the mouse control was better. Stephen says it's sluggish, but I think it's too fast (maybe I'm misinterpreting the comment). It's too sensitive and I didn't see any way to change it.

The primary weapon just fires non-stop without pushing a button. It's probably how I would have played anyway, but would still prefer getting to press a button to shoot. It takes something away from a shooter game if you can't shoot on your own. Scroll'n'Aim might have been a better name...

It's an okay game. There are better cheap scrolling shooters, but this one's not bad. Pretty simple and not very stimulating.

In Brief:

A vertical top down helicopter shooter, with slightly dated graphics.

It took several tries to get the game to run the first time I booted the game up; it kept minimizing to the task bar initially, but I did get it to work. Thereafter it worked first time.

Actually it didn't. sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. :)

The game controls (mouse only) felt a little sluggish and special weapons seemed to be controlled by the same mouse button as the main guns, so they were wasted at the beginning of the level.

The game was installed as Shoot & Scroll 3D with the executable called Helic P2.

I thought it may have been an upgraded version of the game Helic by the same developer, but it was a totally different game similar to the old arcade shoot 'em ups.


The game installs to C:\Games\ShootnScroll3D\helic_P2.exe

and is 235Mb in size once installed.


You can see a video of game play HERE




Introduction:


Helicopter arcade game. Shoot'em-up action with plenty of sky adventures and adrenaline. The game is aimed at all gamblers, from novices to hardcore action gamers. Gamblers can try their skills at lot of levels and bosses. As they complete levels, gamblers gain access to new, more powerful armed enemies and unexpected air attack surprises. Easy game controls, arcade action and lot of guns, bullets, rockets and explosions. Ready for takeoff? Wheels up!


The Game:


I was really looking forwards to playing this game as shooters of this type (and Shmups) are amongst my favourite arcade genres, but I was really disappointed with the game. Maybe if I'd seen and played it 20 years ago I'd have been impressed but it was far too easy to avoid being hit and when you were hit there was little damage taken.

I've only played a few levels so maybe I'm being a little harsh. I'd rather play some of my recently acquired Steam games (Resident Evil 6, ArmA III, or Origin games such as the latest Battlefield 3 expansion, Sim City or Dead Space 3 {by the way, I finally managed to find someone who swapped the game for a trials bike game called MUD - FIM Motocross World Championship with only £10 loss in my original investment}) :D

I'd still give this a go if you are remotely interested in arcade shooters such as this; I may have much higher expectations of such games after having played hundreds of them over the past 30 years.





Features:

. Totally free game

. Arcade scrolling shooter, shoot'em all

. Helicopters with different features: fireball attack, laser beam and air electric shield

. Machine gun with standart bullets, triple shoot machine gun, machine gun with side tracers, full pumped machine gun

. Self-direction air to air rockets

. Sky Master Metal Helicopter boss, Armored Tank with machine gun, Electrical protective tower, Military Red-Skull boss and Sky Jet fighter boss

. Upgraded bullets, weapons reload time, rockets and super attack charge

If you like games like 1942, 1943, Siberian Strike, iFighter, Air Strike, Flying Shark, DoDonPachi, Espgaluda, Swiv, Sky Force, Warblade, Air Attack, Sky Gamblers, Helic, Mortal Skies, you'll probably like this game. If you've not heard of any of the above games then you haven't lived (lol) ;-)



Conclusion

As the features quote above, this is already free, though I've only been able to find free android versions so far. The game plays okay, but isn't very inspiring. Wave after wave of similar planes shooting easy to dodge bullets makes for a boring game, but if you don't like things too fast, this is probably okay.

I wasn't able to take any screen captures (all came out blank), and couldn't find any via Google so please forgive the lack of imagery. At least there was a video available so that you can see what the game play is like.

I wouldn't score this more than a 6, but in my estimation is worth less as I've got a whole folder full of similar games that are much more exciting and play better. (Sorry Fly Games).

The game needs more challenging levels, some bigger and better boss fights and a lot more levels to make it a worthwhile regular in my library of games. I'd also include an upgrade system (similar to what you get in rpg games, where earning points gives you perks or better weapons, armor and helicopters).

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Games, Games, and yet more Games plus Download, Installation & Game play Problemsl>:



If you have any problems installing or getting to work today's game please go HERE for help.



If you're looking for something other than today's game check the didimatic site via THIS link for some brilliant deals.

Steam has an indie sale on at the moment with hundreds of games reduced by as much as 80% at the moment. You'll find all the deals via the Specials tab on Steams front page HERE. There's a free weekend and sale for Natural Selection and the 24hr deal is You Empire Total War for only £3.24 (approx $5). That's an amazing price considering I paid around £60 (approx. $90) for the game with all the dlc that was released for the game. The other weekend deal is Dark Souls: Prepare to die edition with 50% off.



You'll find many more game deals from Gamersgate, Gamestop, Greenman Gaming and GOG; all of which you can find via the Didimatic site, which I've linked to above (apart from Greenman gaming - GMG). There's a brilliant offer over at GMG with Bioshock Infinite. If you pre-purchase it you get two other games for free. The first Bioshock, plus a choice from several other games including Bioshock 2, Spec Op's: The Line, Civilization V, Darkness II or Mafia II, All these games are excellent. I'd recommend Spec Ops: the Line or Mafia II. If you like driving games then go for Mafia, if you like horror go for Darkness II. This is the last chance to get this amazing deal as the game is released in a couple of days (Monday I think). X-Com: Enemy Unknown. That said, Steam also have a brilliant deal on this game, with a free giftable copy of Bioshock, a free dlc, loads of TF2 items and X-Com: Enemy Unknown. series totally free as well. GMG also have an excellent Indie sale on, with loads of decent titles reduced significantly.

There's a 20% off coupon that can be used with most digital downloads via GMG. You'll find all the deals from GMG HERE.

EA also have a brilliant sale on with 50% off most games. also, if you purchased the latest game in the sim City franchise they are giving a free game that includes Dead Space 3, Sim city 4, Crysis 3, Battlefield 3 as well as several other games.



To be honest there are too many game deals around too list them all. Just visit the sites I recommend above and I'm sure you'll find something that suits you for a decent price.


I'm not sure what Alawar's free game of the month is. Mine has been stuck at sprill for three months now,, but I think someone said it was one of the craze games (Time Management) You may need to reinstall game-box if its still showing the previous game. It's supposed to change every month, but some community members are seeing the same game for months on end. Dido suggested that you reinstall game-box to fix the problem. Reinstalling game-box shouldn't affect any previous freebies. :). (You need to install the free Game-box from Alawar to access the free games, which for newcomers change approximately every month). If that's not enough, check out the Game Discussion forums HERE for details of other games either free or on deals such as the Indie Game bundles (of which there are at least four live at the moment, and all of which contain some excellent games - see below for links and details); or check out the four day sales at IndieGameStand.

The latest IndieGameStand game is Space Pirates & Zombies (excellent game) (changes late Sunday early Monday morning)) . You can pay less than a dollar for this game, but if you want the extra's (usually game music, manuals etc) you have to pay the average price.. There's also several indie bundles over at Indiebundle.org. Each bundle has three games and costs $5 each.


There's yet more bundles available from Bundle in a box, Build a Bundle (Groupees), Indie Gala, Indie Royale and the Humble guys are having a weekly sale now. Check the game discussion forums for details of all active bundles.


Most of the bundles retail for around $5 give or take a few dollars, but you can pay as little as a dollar.

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A Request for helpl>:

Developers rely on good feedback to improve their games. If you download this game please take some time once you’ve played it a while to leave some constructive feedback either positive or negative. The more constructive feedback we get, the more likely developers are going to give more games away. The giveaway site already has a very good standing with the search engines. Developers want their products out there on the WWW, this site has the potential to do that. The game giveaway project gives away on average between 9 to 17 thousand downloads for each game depending upon what genre and how obscure the game is. That’s a lot of homes these games are being downloaded into and a lot of 'potential' cash that’s being lost by the developers. If we get better games because of better feedback, the community are likely to continue to benefit from the generosity of the developers. Satisfied community members are then more likely to visit the home sites of those developers and purchase games that they may not have bothered with before they discovered the developer via the game giveaway site, thus giving the developers more incentives to give away even more decent games.

Please leave some feedback once you've checked the game out. It can be positive or negative, but please explain what your reasons were for the feedback you post. You could also leave suggestions for improving the game, for example, this game could do with more block types for the levels editor, add more power-ups, describing the ones you think would be suitable, add some mini games (which seem all the rage in some arcade games now) or enable the user to be able to change the in game music easily.

Thank you in advance to all those who take the time to post a constructive comment.

Regards

Whiterabbit aka Stephen

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