PixelJunk SideScroller
PixelJunk SideScroller is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up game developed by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3 as part of the PixelJunk series. It was released on the PlayStation Store on 25 October 2011 in North…
PixelJunk SideScroller is an arcade developed by Q-Games Ltd., released 25 October 2011 on PlayStation 3.
What PixelJunk SideScroller is
PixelJunk SideScroller is an arcade game developed by Q-Games Ltd. and released in 2011. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
PixelJunk SideScroller is a 2011 scrolling shooter video game developed by Q-Games for the PlayStation 3. It is part of the PixelJunk series and was released internationally by Sony Computer Entertainment. The visuals are intended to resemble arcade video games with a vector monitor. It is based on the "Road to Dawn" bonus stage in PixelJunk Shooter 2.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the PixelJunk series
PixelJunk SideScroller is the tenth of 23 entries we hold in the PixelJunk series. It arrived 8 months after PixelJunk Shooter 2. The next entry was PixelJunk: 4am in 2012. Its critic score of 82 is 8 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate HD at 90.
How it was received
PixelJunk SideScroller holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What it launched against
PixelJunk SideScroller launched on 25 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Battlefield 3. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for PixelJunk SideScroller yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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