One of ExZeus’ defining features are the unusual controls, which fully hinge on the phone’s accelometer.
Before you start playing you have to do a calibration—this allows you to optimally control the mech. If you tip the phone away from yourself, the mech flies upward. It flies down when you tip your phone the other way. At the beginning this is a little bit tricky to do, and unfortunately at this stage it will seem as though the mech has a mind of its own.
You activate the mech’s canons by tipping the right half of the screen. Tipping the screen to the left allows you to focus on your opponents. Tipping to the right again you can then smite them down with a rocket. By wiping across the screen from the upper right to the lower right you can produce a downpour of bombs which will wipe out/damage any visible opponents.
There are three menu button on the home screen:
New Game
Options
Tutorial
Under options you’ll find many ways of setting up a game. You can navigate through the options menu by using the little arrows in the bottom margin of your screen; these will divide Options into five categories:
• Sound
- Music Volume
- SFX Volume
- Tutorial Sound
• Controls
- Reverse Up/Down
- Reverse Fire Buttons
--> reverses the right and left part of the screen
- Calibrate Up/Down
• Controls 2
- Tilt Sensivity (L/R)
- Tilt Sensivity (U/D)
--> Sensitivity for tilting from left to right / up and down
• Miscellaneous
- Flip Screen
--> Turns the screen180°
- Enemy Speed
- Boss Speed
--> The last two tell you how fast opponents will be advancing and influence the degree of difficulty
- Story
--> Changes the language from Japanese to English
• Online
- Splash Screen
--> Switches online modus from the beginning of the game on or off
• - Online Score
--> Automatically publish your score
- Country
--> Select your country for statistics
Bottom line:
ExZeus is an awesome game, even if the controls take some getting used to. Optically this thing blows not only your socks but your boots off, too. The developers managed to combine graphics with Gameplay brilliantly. Here’s hoping they’ll come out with a second version soon.
Cary
Jun 3, 2012 8:04:14 AM
Come on.... Way too hard. Impossible to master the aiming, just shoot at random. Could be amazing....
Roe
May 23, 2012 5:33:40 PM
Sucks This game sucks you fly around randomly shooting you can't aim at anything it would be a much better fame if you could actually aim at something a waste of money smh
Richard
May 23, 2012 5:00:00 AM
U have to Make it work on xperia play controls it Would so much better
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2012 2:23:29 AM
Annoying controls... I don't get why people want to just shake the screen around so you can't see what your doing.. at least a lot of programmers now are adding touch controls... this game is another one that needs to.
Nicholas
Apr 14, 2012 8:32:08 AM
Ok. Server problem resolved.
AlkamistStar
Mar 26, 2012 3:47:26 PM
Won't install Fails to get a connection to the server. I tried everything the FAQ suggested. Epic 4G Touch
Robert
Feb 25, 2012 6:05:39 AM
Great...
Brandon
Feb 9, 2012 2:40:25 AM
Ex Zeus Arcade I found it a lot of fun just because I can fly around and blast things to oblivion and I can keep leveling up. So far, not so bad at all! ;)
tyrone chym
Jan 25, 2012 4:35:47 AM
Cool
Surface
Jan 23, 2012 5:47:22 AM
Ex dues? Nice loved the arcade gohardian for a phone game