![]() Nanosaur 2 was reviewed playing Version 1.0. (So why even include in the first place then?) Here's a tip: If you want to choose between each of the three levels, just triple tap the upper left corner during the game's main menu screen to access the cheat menu. It doesn't matter, though, because the game tells you to turn it off for smoother gameplay. The sound effects are great, but the music isn't very inspiring. Each level looks gorgeous, and the enemy characters and animations are nice to look at, as are the backgrounds and explosions. Pangea knows how to squeeze good graphics out the iPhone. Turning off Wi-Fi can help, but always having to reboot your device before playing to clear memory is just annoying. It's also frustrating to almost complete a level and have the game suddenly crash. Frustration is compounded by not having any sort of auto-save except at the end of stages, so if you have to get back to real life in the middle of a level, you're up a creek. The eggs are very small, so pay close attention. Without any icons to indicate where the eggs are (there can be up to 28), you could be flying around for an hour trying to find some of them. The onboard map is useless for spotting eggs, too. If you miss or drop an egg, you have to circle around and try to grab it again while playing bumper cars with the scenery. There is a neutral button to stabilize yourself, but with trees, branches and cannons everywhere, it's just too easy to repeatedly bump into things. I didn't like almost always being in motion. Even with the extra speed, though, flying seems a bit sluggish. Thrust increases your flight speed, which is good for getting out of tight spots in a hurry. Replenish it by seeking out shield icons. Flying into objects kills you instantly, but you do have a temporary shield to protect against incoming fire. You have just three lives per level, but extra live icons are hidden in each stage. Sometimes my fire button would get stuck and when I picked up an icon, it would fire all of the shots automatically. A default sonic scream is available if you run out of other weapons. Frag grenades, bombs, and heat-seeking missiles compliment your arsenal. You start with only twenty shots of your blaster weapon, but you can pick up other weapons by flying into icons scattered throughout the level. ![]() You have numerous weapons at your disposal. So, once you have an egg, you better fly to the nearest wormhole so the egg is banked. Nanosaur 2 expands on the original Nanosaur storyline, with a much larger three level adventure mode where you blast enemy dinos and save eggs flying a terodactyl loaded with hi-tech weaponry, PLUS six two-player levels with Racing, CTF, and Battle Version: 1. It does drop them if you're hit by laser fire or other dinos, or if you scrape along the ground. Just fly over the eggs and your Nanosaur automatically picks them up. Enemy dinosaurs such as raptors and brontosauruses try to stop you from collecting the egg. You blast your way through three levels: Forest, Desert and Swamp. This port was made and re-released under permission from Pangea Software, Inc.Set in the future, you play a lone Nanosaur sent on a mission to retrieve stolen Nanosaur eggs and guarantee the survival of your species. This port aims to provide the best way to experience the game today. It was a pack-in game on Macs that came out around that time. In addition to the three level adventure mode where you blast enemy dinos and save eggs, there are also six two-player levels including racing, capture-the-flag, and battle.Ībout this port: Nanosaur 2 was released in 2004 by Pangea Software. Nanosaur II: Hatchling is a continuation of the original Nanosaur storyline, only this time you get to fly a pterodactyl who’s loaded with hi-tech weaponry. This hatchling was sent on a mission to recover the stolen eggs and defeat the rebel forces. when it hatched, a new Nanosaur was born. Their goal was to create warriors for fighting their battle against Earth.īut the rebels left one egg behind. The rebels took the eggs to offworld bases where they planned on breeding the dinosaurs. The mission was a success, but before the eggs could be hatched, they were stolen by a group of rebel Nanosaurs. His mission was to find the unhatched eggs of ancient dinosaur species and return them to the future. In the year 4122, a solo Nanosaur was sent 65,000,000 years into the past.
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