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Gridrunner Revolution

Gridrunner Revolution is a game which has evolved over 27 years. The original Gridrunner games were created for the Commodore 64 and Vic-20 back in 1982. The company that made the games, Llamasoft, are now one…

70 22 February 2010

Gridrunner Revolution is an arcade developed by Llamasoft LTD, released 22 February 2010 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Gridrunner Revolution is

Gridrunner Revolution is an arcade game developed by Llamasoft LTD and released in 2010. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Gridrunner Revolution is a game which has evolved over 27 years. The original Gridrunner games were created for the Commodore 64 and Vic-20 back in 1982. The company that made the games, Llamasoft, are now one of the longest established game developers in existence and over the intervening years have done pioneering work in the field of music visualization as well as developing genre-defining games such as Tempest 2000 and the extraordinary Space Giraffe. Gridrunner Revolution takes some core ideas from those old Commodore games and extrapolates them forward to create a game that is both modern and exceptionally beautiful. The gameplay goes way beyond mere shooting and leads players to…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Gridrunner Revolution holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel® or AMD™ Processor 1.9 Ghz or higher, 256MB of RAM and DirectX 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB Ram. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Gridrunner Revolution launched on 22 February 2010, within three weeks of BioShock 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Heavy Rain and Assassin's Creed 2 Deluxe Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: BioShock 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Heavy Rain, Assassin's Creed 2 Deluxe Edition.

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Gridrunner Revolution — frequently asked questions

When did Gridrunner Revolution come out?
Gridrunner Revolution was released on 22 February 2010 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Gridrunner Revolution?
At minimum, Gridrunner Revolution needs Intel® or AMD™ Processor 1.9 Ghz or higher, 256MB of RAM, DirectX 9.0c compliant video card with 256MB Ram graphics, 70 MB disk space of storage.
How many GB is Gridrunner Revolution?
The PC version needs about 0.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("70 MB disk space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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