BeachHead 2000 (The Game)

Sure it wasn’t going to be the next Half-Life, but I wondered if BeachHead might be a fun little action game with good graphics and lots of action.   I installed the game and started to play it.  It actually looked pretty good – there was a beach landing and the troops started to run toward my protective bunker.  The helicopters began to fly above and I was starting to feel like I was living in the world of Saving Private Ryan.

But then all was lost when I tried to move my gun turret.  The mouse control in this game is so imprecise it borders on hilarious that someone would release a product so broken.   When you move the mouse left, the turret gently glides one way, only to stop if you push the mouse a little bit in the other direction.  It’s hard to explain, but it’s absolutely appalling that a game could control so badly…you can’t even target the enemy soldiers with any precision.

I give points to WizardWorks for publishing a game that actually caught my interest.  Those were some nice screenshots.  But I still can’t get over the mouse control issue in this game.  But mark my works:  this idea of a beach invasion game is a great one.  A small developer could do a really good version of this game with a hot 3D engine.  Sure it would be nothing more than a simple action game, but I bet it would be a lot of fun trying to single-handedly hold off an invasion.  

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