Gamescape spotlight: Play ‘Elite Force,’ a free wave shooter

Andrei Shulgac hopes to surf the wave of wave shooters.
Elite Force was one of 25 games on display at Artscape’s Gamescape exhibit earlier this month.
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The game plays like Borderlands mixed with the firefight mode of Halo: Reach and a dash of Counter-Strike. Players fight-off round after round of aliens, unlocking and buying new weapons between waves.
“It’s just a mix of early 2000s, ’90s fast-paced shooters,” said Shulgac, founder of Bel Air-based Salokin Games. The game took two years to complete, he said.
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Like many of those old-school shooters, the game’s story only serves as an excuse to zap aliens. In the future, humanity, re-colonizing Earth years after an alien attack, has to clear out a new legion of invaders. The player is mankind’s hero.
As you progress in the game, you can unlock weapons like mines and EMP grenades.
A Mac version of Elite Force is in the works, Shulgac said.
Last week we profiled another game demo’d at Gamescape: Battle Prism.