Asteroids: Recharged
December 14, 2021
The original space shooter warps to the modern era! Asteroids: Recharged has been reimagined for modern gameplay, with vibrant visuals, powerful new abilities, and another original soundtrack from award-winning video game composer Megan McDuffee. Asteroids: Recharged creates a familiar, but revitalized and modern challenge to both old school and new …
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"Equal parts classic gaming action and modern aesthetics, Asteroids: Recharged is worth the pickup for just the convenience of having access to it alone. Given that it’s on every platform available, (and especially in quick hits on Switch) having modern …"
Read original review"Asteroids: Recharged is up there with the best of Atari&s;s Recharged releases and it&s;s even more fun with a friend. So, if you have fond memories of the 1979 arcade classic or just want to play some simple static shooting, …"
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85.0
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90.0
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"Asteroids: Recharged is a great way to reintroduce a classic to a younger audience. Updating the visuals and sound, along with preserving its base structure, is a very successful recipe for how to make that return. It&s;s a shame that …"
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30.0
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30.0
"Nice memories, beautiful neo-futuristic metaphor to today, but also empty in some places."
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40.0
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40.0
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40.0
"While Asteroids: Recharged is a decent update of the classic game and is a welcome return for the series, it&s;s also not as effective at tugging on the nostalgia strings as the previous Recharged games."
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80.0
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70.0
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65.0
"If you’re a fan of Asteroids, love your retro games or need a game to enjoy in short bursts. Asteroids: Recharged is easy to recommend. The Recharged series may be starting to show a repetitive formula but it’s a design …"
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70.0
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90.0
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"These Atari classic reduces have been interesting, if sometimes a bit underwhelming, but one constant that Asteroids reiterates is that the core gameplay devised decades ago now still fundamentally does hold up well..."
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87.0
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62.0
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35.0
"It’s yet another bite-sized Recharged version of an Atari classic, but one that actually looks good enough, has an okay soundtrack, and feels like the perfect balance between retro and modern, all thanks to its mixture of vector graphics and …"
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60.0
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55.0
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30.0
"Asteroids: Recharged is a nice little addition to Recharged series of Atari arcade classics that will bring back all those memories of playing the original at the arcades or at home with your own Atari console."
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70.0
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80.0
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30.0
"Decent yet limited - not very "Recharged" - remake of the 1979 arcade classic."
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50.0
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60.0
"While Asteroids is iconic entertainment, this installment (like the Recharged series in general) is too conservative to vouch for at launch price. When I can say versions of these games from 40 years ago are just as fun, if not …"
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