Altitude Review

There is a lot you can do with $2.00 USD. You can buy a cup of cheap coffee at the convenience store, a candy bar from the vending machines you have become accustomed to and purchase one of the most interesting 2D flight games out there.

In Altitude, you are a pilot of one of about a dozen various planes ranging from thin prop planes to full blown bombers. You can turn and change altitudes using the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard. Since it is a 2D game, there isn’t a lot of pitch available to you as a pilot other than forced barrel rolls. You can change your speed using the up and down arrow keys including afterburners that give you an extra push to get you out of a stall and away from enemies that are in hot pursuit.

Stalls are a big part of the game. If you head up for too long you’ll likely stall out your plane sending you in to a downward direction until you pick up enough speed to get going once more.

What makes this game quite interesting is the multiplayer aspect of the game. Servers are set up all over the web where owners of the game can dogfight to their heart’s content in open air and through obstacles. Combat can be strait out free-for-all or interesting games like air soccer where your objective is to get control of the ball and shoot it in to your opponent’s goal. You can take the ball off your opponent by shooting them down or intercepting it when they pass it to another plane on their team.

The music in Altitude isn’t anything I’m overly excited about. It’s about standard for an independent release and easily replaced by your own personal collection on your music player of choice.

Graphics are cartoonish which suits the game very well considering the simplicity and casual gaming environment it creates. Unlike other competitive combat games, I don’t feel compelled to punch my monitor when blown up by one of my more skilled opponents.

Overall, this is a solid release that is undeniably fun and easy to play when you want to get competitive but aren’t looking for a lot of stress.
Considering Nimbly Games is essentially made up of two people, this is a very good game worth more than the $2.00 price tag it is given on popular game distributor “Steam“.