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Celestial Assault: Reloaded HD – Casual Game Review
Celestial Assault: Reloaded HD is a Casual/Roleplaying game from Lucid Vision Games, first launched in 29th June 2014.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 44+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Celestial Assault: Reloaded HD Stand Out
Celestial Assault Reloaded is a blend of retro style side scrolling space shooter and RPG.
The alien scourge is back and it's up to you to save humanity! Blast your way through the alien hordes, level-up your spaceship, unlock powerful weapons and skills to take on overwhelming odds in the most challenging and engaging side scrolling space shooter around, absolutely free!
As a complete re-imagination of the 2012 original, Celestial Assault: Reloaded delivers an engaging and unique challenge unlike any other space shooter.
Features:
- Awesome Shmup elements paying homage to great retro games like R-Type, Gradius and Life-force
- RPG style ship leveling
- 80 missions with 60+ unique enemies
- 8 challenging boss fights
- 3 additional difficulty levels for a more intense experience every time
- 7 Powerful Special Weapons and tons of upgrade able stats to help you on your quest to save the world
- Beautiful dynamic space scenes
- Awesome soundtrack
- Challenging and diverse game-play with extensive replay-ability
- Purchasable shortcuts and game add-ins
- global online leader board
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Celestial Assault: Reloaded HD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st July 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- fix: HUD background occluded enemies in the top of the screen
- fix: jump in music volume when switching to game play
- fix: effects volume issues
- fix: leader board sign in now allows white space
- new: re-worked space backgrounds to incorporate planets and asteroids
- new: re-worked skill tree layout from cheapest to most costly
- new: added indicators on skill tiles that you can afford an attribute with current skill points
- new: improved lighting, textures and effects
Download & Availability
Celestial Assault: Reloaded HD is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Celestial Assault: Reloaded HD on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Very addictive played for hours.
Really enjoyed the first game, this sequel is lots of fun.
So glad we found this game to play.
We downloaded the game not really expecting much, but we really like the game so far. The level up system is interesting and satisfying, the movement feels nice, and overall its a good shmup. The only thing we dont really like is the soundtrack. Ive only heard one song in the levels so far, and it is not too great. Other shmups like Gradius, R-Type, and Raiden, all of which inspired this game, had great soundtracks.
Straight forward and lots of fun. Lots of variety and great for grinding too. No ads, quick loads and stable, playing for a few weeks and hasnt crashed once! Ive bought a few of the add-ons which totally make the game more fun and so worth it. Ive played through in the lowest setting and working our way through on medium now. After finishing that Ill try with the alternate ship. Also, join the boards. The creator replies to all comments and is very supportive. This is a gem.
Us remonta a los juegos de Nintendo.
We were looking for something that was like when we were a kid and this hits the nail on the head it be nice if the graphics were a bit bigger but still good.
Unbelievable and very addictive. Y'all did great with this one, reminds us of the classics. Yet we hit a snag, we just updated and our acct it won't let us log in. Then it decreased our damage to 35 when we were maxed out already. Whassup.
This game is amazing. More people should know about this game.
This is the best free shooter game on the App Store. Possibly the BEST space shooter game on the App Store. A free game with no ads whatsoever, and it doesn't tell you to rate it. Ever. Not only that, but you don't have to purchase in-game ship upgrades or anything like that; you can win just fine without them. No glitches that we have found at all, smooth and beautiful graphics, difficult but not impossible levels, an upgrade system that allows you to personalize your ship… We could go on and on about how awesome this game is. There's nothing we can complain about. We don't generally write reviews for any games, but this one deserved an amazing review. Thank you, creators, for making a game like this on the App Store.
Graphics are very sharp, and the enemies are varied in design. There are a great many levels, so replay-ability is significant. Best of all, however, is the customizable try of the ship: there are a massive number of upgrades you can choose from. However there are several problems with this game. – Some updates simply don't work: the homing function for the main gun, as well as the 2 extra gun mounts provided by green shards. – The two upgrades, aptitude and fortune, are pointless in the long run. You should always get them first, preventing the he players from getting other upgrades, which defeats the purpose a building up a customized ship. – The enemies with that instant kill beam are so fast that they can spawn, fire, hit the player, and kill the player, all before the player has any possible chance of reacting. – we have not had a chance to test out nearly all the powers, so we can't share which others are broken. – charging $ for a ship respec? Really? That's dirty. All in all, we like the game, but it seems more like a late beta release, than a full polished product.
Download and you won't be disappointed! We were pleasantly surprised how deep this game is, hours and hours of shooting pleasure, the controls are what make this work.
If you like side-scroll shooters, buy this game . It is awesome. Nuff said.
If you have Celestial Assault 1, just get this as well!!! You will enjoy it as much if not more! A space shooter for your iPhone / tablet / etc… With the endless replayabilty of an RPG! You can earn level ups and revisit stages to improve your score and exp crystals! The system in this one is improved allowing for much more customized "leveling". An awesome and fun game.
Great game but has not been working right since iOS update. We lost our profile and all our purchases and the built in support won't let submit a trouble ticket because it asks for a detailed description of the problem no matter how much we write. We hope they fix this soon. UPDATE: Was able to get a message through to the company, response was in less than a day and great. The error is still there but we are sure they are working on it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.7
- Size: 135.73 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Lucid Vision Games]()
Last updated: 21st July 2017 | Genre: Casual, Roleplaying | Developer: Lucid Vision Games