Steel Diver - 3DS

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) 10+
Release Date: 3-27-2011
Moby Score (1-10): 5.9
Genre(s): Action, Strategy / tactics, 1st-person, Side view, Naval / watercraft, Spy / espionage

Steel Diver is a new action-packed submarine combat game from Nintendo that immerses players in the 3D action with unique game controls and lush 3D environments. The player can choose from three different submarines, each with touch-screen control panels that players will have to master to guide them through treacherous undersea caverns while engaging enemy submarines, dodging depth charges and battling massive sea creatures. Steel Diver also takes advantage of the built-in gyroscope of the Nintendo 3DS system. The combination of 3D game play and one-of-a-kind controls makes for an immersive combination that must be experienced to be believed.

FEATURES:

& Use touch-screen controls to guide submarines through lush, undersea 3D environments.

& Branching paths, split-second decisions and attacks from enemy ships make for a thrilling undersea adventure.

& Multiple ways to play

â—‹ Missions: Players manipulate control panels on the touch screen to control the sub's speed, depth and pitch, and to fire torpedoes as they make their way toward the end of each level. If the sub takes damage and starts taking on water, players can use the stylus on the touch screen to stop the leak. There is also a time attack mode that challenges the player to get through levels as quickly as possible.

â—‹ Periscope Strike: The gyroscope for the Nintendo 3DS system allows players to control the periscope view by rotating their bodies. Players use the touch screen to fire awell-placed torpedo and take enemies out.

○ Steel Commander: In this two-player strategy mode, a local wireless connection pits player against player. The game is a top-down, turn-based “chess-like” game that puts players in command of a fleet of ships and a sub. Once players locate a ship, they enter Periscope Mode and blast it out of the water.

& Immersive undersea graphics

â—‹ The 3D in Steel Diver makes players feel like they are peering into an aquarium, with the action unfolding right before their eyes.

Use Parental Controls to restrict 3D mode for children 6 and under.

Steel Diver is a launch title accompanying Nintendo's 3DS system to the market, and a fresh IP from Nintendo for the new system. Steel Diver is a title built around submarine action and combat.

Campaign

Despite the system's highly touted 3-D capabilities, Steel Diver actually plays in a side-scrolling perspective and in a 2-D plane, where the bulk of the depth is simply in background graphics. Players control a submarine navigating underwater environments and a variety of hostile elements, including mines, enemy submarines, and various rocky obstacles. Control is performed entirely through the touch-screen. Players utilize horizontal and vertical sliders to move the sub forward horizontally and vertically in the water, and tilt a wheel to change the angle of the submarine. The further the sliders are moved, the faster the speed. Torpedoes and repairs, as well as adjusting the map screen are also used simply by tapping the appropriate points on the bottom screen. Action isn't necessarily fast-paced, and players must learn to monitor and correct the movement of the submarine as it may continue to "drift" in the water. Three different submarines are available at the start of each mission with different sizes and attributes, from small and fast to large and tough.

Periscope Strike

Besides the regular campaign mode, played through the 2-D side scrolling environments, there is also a more 3-D style periscope mini-game segment. All control is again performed through the touch-screen, with an option to rotate the view of the periscope by physically moving the 3DS system (and yourself in the process). As this view is seen as if through a periscope, it takes on a first-person orientation. Here, players again have the ability to dive and repair leaks, but must use some strategy to launch torpedoes at constantly moving distant ships.

Steel Commander

This segment is a one or two-player turn-based strategy game played through an overhead hexagonal map, rather like the Battleship tabletop game. Like Battleship, enemy ships aren't initially visible and must be discovered to be attacked. Rather than launching relatively random attacks, enemy ships are discovered by moving near them or using sonar. This game features three types of ships: Submarines, escorts, and supply ships. Only submarines can enter enemy territory, and of course, the game ends when one player has all their ships destroyed. Supply ships cannot attack. Movement and controls are again performed through the touch-screen (which shows the hexagonal grid). The top (3-D) screen shows the action of the battle.

Other Features Steel Diver features download play, meaning that two-player gameplay can be done with one game card (but two systems). "Ghosts" may also appear in the game as a competitive element representing the player's previous "best time" for a stage or mission.

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