{"id":68,"date":"2009-05-25T19:16:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T18:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2010-08-06T17:59:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:59:19","slug":"heavy-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/heavy-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/heavyweapons.jpg\" rel=\"image_group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-71\" title=\"Heavy Weapons\" src=\"http:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/heavyweapons.jpg\" alt=\"Heavy Weapons\" width=\"443\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/heavyweapons.jpg 443w, https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/media\/heavyweapons-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a>Starts off slow, this one. Roving spaceship, short waves of enemies, seems a bit easy&#8230; and did the developer not get the memo that <em>all shoot-&#8217;em-ups need to have glowing neon lights now<\/em>? But then <strong>Heavy Weapons<\/strong> goes <em>shopping<\/em>. Grab cash from dropped enemies and you can spend it on 20 bigger, beefier guns &#8212; the details of which are all hush-hush until you can afford them. The lure of what&#8217;s behind that $500,000 slot is too much to resist &#8212; and with only three weapon slots, you have to be intelligent about your choices as the 60 levels get more varied, and tougher, <em>and better<\/em>. Who doesn&#8217;t love a field full of retro robots with orange heads?<\/p>\n<p>Good stuff, then. Especially level 15. We eagerly await the sequels, Heavy Weapons 2: Heavier Weapons and Heavy Weapons 3: Ooh No, I&#8217;m Not Lifting That, I&#8217;m Worried I&#8217;ll Put My Back Out. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/LongAnimals\/heavy-weapons\">Play Heavy Weapons (Flash)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starts off slow, this one. Roving spaceship, short waves of enemies, seems a bit easy&#8230; and did the developer not get the memo that all shoot-&#8217;em-ups need to have glowing neon lights now? But then Heavy Weapons goes shopping. Grab cash from dropped enemies and you can spend it on 20 bigger, beefier guns &#8212; the details of which are all hush-hush until you can afford them. The lure of what&#8217;s behind that $500,000 slot &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94],"tags":[6,10,38,39,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pixelatron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}