Rock Boshers

Posted by Derek Yu Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:40:00 GMT

Rock Boshers

Rock Boshers is a top-down demake of the 2001 first-person shooter Red Faction, by Volition. The project was originally developed for last year’s Bootleg Demakes Competition, but its author, Dugan (aka “moogled”), only recently put the finishing touches on it. And the extra time really shows – this is an impressive effort, especially considering it’s his first Game Maker release.

Boshers incorporates both Red Faction’s destructible terrain (for which the latter is best known), as well as its Martian setting, but while playing I was most often reminded of Dead Rising, a game where zombies are constantly swarming and your immediate goal, more often than not, is just to make your way through a crowded passageway. All the enemies and traps in RB are deadly, but your most hated foe is going to be the zombie spawn point, which spits out brain-eaters at a prodigious rate, quickly filling the tight areas that you’ll have to navigate on your way to the next key or exit. And no, these spawn points can’t be destroyed!

There’s a lot to like about this game, to be sure. For one thing the graphics, which are inspired by the ZX Spectrum, are outstanding, and have a lavish amount of detail. Rock Boshers also features two multiplayer modes (on and offline), as well as a hidden Asteroids-style minigame, which is unlockable after you beat level 10. All in all, it’s a pretty polished and entertaining game that’s made even better by the sometimes frustrating level of challenge (should you like that sort of thing).

TIGdb: Entry for Rock Boshers

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  1. barold said about 1 hour later:

    coo gam

  2. durp said about 2 hours later:

    I agre it’ a ver coo gam

  3. Quetz said about 3 hours later:

    is coo

  4. Vhggg said about 6 hours later:

    I agr

  5. acs said about 7 hours later:

    ver coo gam …. iii enj ply gam off mny typ ;;; ths one gav mee fnd mem orr ies off myy ZXX spc trm. …

  6. Mark said about 11 hours later:

    Way to shit up the comments section, guys.

  7. Mark said about 13 hours later:

    Poo Poooooo Pooooooppppp

    Shit Crap

    EXCREMENT.

    turd. little nutty balls of filth.

  8. Not Derek said about 13 hours later:

    Sometimes I am embarrassed by the readers of this website.

  9. MikeK said about 14 hours later:

    Derek, It seems to have gotten worse since i started coming here almost a year ago.

    The whole demake thing is cool. It actually kinda gives me a strange perspective - esp with this game. Like a game made ages ago may have been Red Faction in the developers minds eye. I dunno. Its hard to explain. But its a strange sensation.

  10. ZombiePixel said about 15 hours later:

    It also strips a game down to its bare elements and sometimes you get a better picture of what a game is about (design-wise). And sometimes you discover that once you strip away all the pretty 3D graphics many games are just shit.

  11. Mark said about 16 hours later:

    Wait, that second “Mark” wasn’t me!

  12. Mark said about 19 hours later:

    The third Mark was, though.

  13. Mark said about 19 hours later:

    I am somewhat disturbed at how many Marks there are on this page. My name is actually Mark, though.

  14. James Monkman RGCD said about 20 hours later:

    Note that there is only an offline multiplayer mode - the online mode is just a joke ;)

  15. dugan said about 20 hours later:

    aww - dont spoil it ;)

  16. captain_duck said about 21 hours later:

    Great game, played it through earlier tonight. The style is done very good, complete with a 4+ minute loading screen(skippable). Also the gameplay is solid. Fun game, everyone should try it.

  17. Mark said about 21 hours later:

    6 and 11 are me, as well as this one. The actual Mark. And yes, my name is Mark. 7 was some chump.

    And Derek changed “Derek” to “Not Derek”. But there are many people named “Derek.” Probably even multiple “Derek Yu”s.

    And there are probably multiple “Derek”s who are sick of the diarrhea in these comments, to be honest.

  18. none said about 22 hours later:

    Why is it that the comments section looks to be filled with drooling retards whereas the forum is actually filled with really nice people who are kind to others? It baffles me but hey, I prefer it to say that way.

  19. none said about 22 hours later:

    *stay

  20. Gite said about 24 hours later:

    Rock Bosher You don’t have to put on the mining light Those days are over You don’t have to bow to the empire’s might

    RAAWWK Bosher! You don’t have to mine that rock tonight Walk the cave, shoot zombies You don’t care if it’s wrong or if it’s right

  21. Mark said 1 day later:

    Coo beans

  22. Mark said 1 day later:

    We’re just kidding, geez. Seriously.

    srs bsns

  23. James Monkman RGCD said 1 day later:

    Heh Dugan - mate I’m just saving you from a slew of ‘server broken’ bug reports!

    If the Bitmap Brothers had created a Spectrum game it would have looked like this ;)

  24. NotMark said 1 day later:

    waaa waaa waaa waaa

    6 and 34 were me but 12 and sqrt(pi) wasn’t

  25. Al Borland said 2 days later:

    I don’t think so, Tim.

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