Choplifter HD is an arcade developed by inXile Entertainment, released 10 January 2012 on Ouya, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Android.
What Choplifter HD is
Choplifter HD is an arcade game developed by inXile Entertainment and released in 2012. It is available on Ouya, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Choplifter HD, players take on the role of an up-and-coming rescue pilot asked to join the elite, international helicopter rescue team. Pilots will be trained to command a variety of helicopters deployed on 30 different missions. Pilots must bank, hover, touch-down and sometimes even shake zombies from their chopper during lift-off in order to make their rescue and complete their mission. Command a variety of helicopters deployed on more than 30 different missions ranging from captured military prisoner extraction to saving survivors of viral outbreaks. Original Choplifter franchise creator Dan Gorlin serving as design consultant
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Choplifter HD holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 Ghz Dual-Core CPU, 2 GB RAM and Graphics Card with Shader Model 3 support, 256 MB video memory. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Choplifter HD launched on 10 January 2012, within three weeks of Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Resident Evil: Revelations and SoulCalibur V. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Resident Evil: Revelations, SoulCalibur V.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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