PixelJunk Shooter 2009

Is it still worth playing?

A shooter developed and published by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3, released on the PlayStation Store in December 2009, the fourth game in the PixelJunk series. One or two players pilot subterranean vehicles to rescue scientists trapped underground, using missiles to defeat enemies and break weak rock. Besides rock and ice you have to handle three fluids, water, magma and ferrofluid, and mixing water and lava makes new breakable ground. Your health is tied to your ship's heat, so you cool off in pools, and new suits add abilities such as shooting spouts of magma. There are fifteen stages in three episodes, each ending with a boss, and if too many survivors die you have to restart the stage. Hidden gems and hard to reach survivors give reasons to replay levels, and two players can also do shared speed runs. A shooter where liquids are the puzzle still gives each cavern its own problem.