![]() The Rocketeer is a fast, agile shock trooper, equipped with a jetpack, SMG and auto-turrets. The Marksman is your sniper, tooled up with scoped rifle and landmines. The Commando is your basic heavy-weapons class, kitted out with a minigun and rocket launcher, and slightly harder to put down than the rest. It’s a class-based game, with four roles in the majority of game modes. There might be, however, in the gameplay. All the same, if you think Ace of Spades looks like a Minecraft rip-off, there’s nothing in the art style to change your mind. It’s all very cute and very retro, and exploding red blocks are a nice change from exploding red gibs, and the architecture in the maps is quite impressive. ![]() The influence of Minecraft is everywhere in the blocky scenery, the blocky characters and even the blocky weapons, to the extent that looking down your iron sights or using the scope on the sniper rifle will just give you a closer view of the blocks. There’s nothing original about the visual style. Ace of Spades is as much about building barricades and wrecking the scenery as it is about taking headshots and notching up kills. This in itself isn’t a particularly brilliant idea, but what Ace of Spades does so well is make the construction, tunnelling and demolition aspects of Minecraft an integral part of the game. Call it a mash-up, call it a hybrid, but it’s a cunning combination of Notch’s blocky masterpiece with the online team FPS – and more specifically Team Fortress 2. Given the popularity of Minecraft it was inevitable that there would be copies and clones, but Ace of Spades takes the concept in a new direction. ![]() Ace of Spades – Available on PC through Steam
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