EXED EXES
CAPCOM - ARCADE
Reviewed by Deeto

Exed Exes was one of Capcoms earlier games, but even then, Capcom proved that they were masters of their domain, by making a fun little shmup with some superb graphics, gameplay, and sound, even for 1985. Apparently, it's the future, and Earth (or some sort of planet) has been overrun by evil bugs! So, it's your job to take out the evil insects in the latest most incredibly powerful spacecraft devised, perhaps get a cup of coffee, and todays newspaper, etc.

Besides having a (in the words of the semi-immortal tsr) 'rockin' intro tune', you'll also notice the graphic style being definitively.... buggy. The entire landscape is made of this honey-comb pattern, with random specks of forest and dirt. While the graphic style changes subtlely throughout the rest of the game, the basic idea stays the same, so be prepared to see a lot of honeycomb. The enemies are all either insects or mechanical insect-like machines, but i'm not complaining.

Moving on, Exed Exes is very simple, giving you a standard shot, or a bomb which causes all enemy bullets onscreen to vaporize, which can be helpful in some areas, but overall is not as helpful as the loop in the 194x series. Also, your ship is painfully slow, and there are many areas when you see the enemy coming, but your sluggish ship doesn't move out of the way in time, and you soon realize that your about to be killed instantly. Very annoying.

Despite some shortcomings, Exed Exes is a very good little game in the old-school sense of kill or be killed, and if you don't watch out, you could find yourself wasting an hour or two with the game. Yes, this game can be addictive.

GRAPHICS: 80%
SOUND: 70%
GAMEPLAY: 80%
OVERALL: 75%