Welcome to the website for BlastZone2, the side-scrolling shooter game set on redefining what you would commonly expect from games in the genre.

NEWS

9/23/07 – Game Announcement, website launch, and demo release!

Announcing BlastZone2, an independently developed side-scrolling shooter game for Windows PC’s that has been in development for the last 18 months. The goal of BlastZone2 is to redefine what you would commonly expect from side-scrolling shooters, being much faster paced and skill-based than most other games in the genre. BlastZone2 is not a game that allows you to pickup god-like powerups that let you sit back and hold the fire button to eliminate your foes. BlastZone2 focuses every new ability and powerup to require skill to execute properly. Also, all the levels are being designed to require the player to work up reaction times and short term strategies to succeed. The multiplayer aspect of the game is designed to give great advantage to players who practice very teamwork-oriented strategies instead of working independently.

Not only does BlastZone2 provide handcrafted levels and impressive cutscenes for the main mission campaign of the game, but also 3 other survival-based gamemodes with infinitely generated levels to measure how much skill you have playing side-scrolling shooters. Upon release of the full version of the game, the online world leaderboard will be launched so all players of the game can see how they stand for each gamemode.

Not only is this the announcement of the development of BlastZone2, but of the availability of the demo as well! Head over to the downloads page and check it out!

The full version of the game is not available yet, but will be during the first half of 2008. You can track the approximate progress of development by looking at the percentages on the left of this page.

For more information on the game, check out the pages on your left and don’t forget to sign up to the forums!