Super Motherload

Super Motherload

Cover of Super Motherload
Developer(s) XGen Studios
Publisher(s) XGen Studios
Designer(s) Skye Boyes
Engine PhyreEngine
Platform(s) Internet game, PS4 (PS3), PC
Release date(s)

PS4

  • NA Nov 15, 2013
  • EU November 22, 2013

PS3

  • NA Nov 26, 2013
  • EU November 27, 2013


PC
Apr 4, 2014

Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single player, co-op multiplayer

Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure game for the PlayStation 4, Playstation 3, and PC created by XGen Studios and released on November 15, 2013.[1] Super Motherload is the sequel to Motherload, an Adobe Flash game also developed by XGen Studios, released in 2004.[2] In Super Motherload, players work for the Solarus Corporation to collect minerals and gems on Mars.

Storyline

Super Motherload features a horror science-fiction storyline,[3] in which players play as the pilots of digging machines sent to Mars to harvest precious resources.[4] As players descend, they begin to learn about "the secrets of Mars and the strange occurrences happening throughout the various Solarus bases".[3]

Gameplay

The basic gameplay loop in Super Motherload is similar to that of Motherload, with some new additions. Players drill, collect minerals, and return to base when fuel runs out to refuel, repair, sell minerals, and upgrade their digging machine.[5] New to Super Motherload are underground bases which serve as checkpoints, preventing the need for players to return to the surface each time they fill up their cargo bay. The game also introduces mineral smelting, which alloys the creation of a number of alloys by collecting minerals in certain sequences.[6] The introduction of a number of optional puzzles, solvable via the use of bombs, is also new to Super Motherload.[7]

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings68.17%
Metacritic65%
Review scores
PublicationScore
GameSpot
IGN(6/10)

The initial flash version of the game was well received, prompting XGen Studios to release a downloadable enhanced edition titled Motherload: Goldium Edition.[8][9][10]

Penny Arcade included the game as the subject of a comic strip[11] and blog post.[12]

The PS4 version of Super Motherload has generally received mixed to positive reception. Metacritic aggregately rates it at a 65%, meaning 'mixed to average reception'.

Destructoid gave the game an 8 out of 10. They thought the game was exciting with increasing complexity, although repetitive, citing the gameplay as instilling a "feeling of zen".[3]

However, IGN was less impressed, citing "simple and repetitious" gameplay. However, they did say the premise was "one that could prove to be addictive."[13]

The game received a PlayStation Blog Editors' choice award in 2013.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Games Radar". GamesRadar.
  2. ↑ "Motherload on GameFAQs". GameFAQs.
  3. 1 2 3 "Review: Super Motherload". Destructoid.
  4. ↑ "Game Informer". Game Informer.
  5. ↑ "PSN Stores". PSN Stores.
  6. ↑ "Gaming Illustrated". Gaming Illustrated.
  7. ↑ "PlayStation Blog". PlayStation Blog.
  8. ↑ "Motherload Review". Jay Is Games.
  9. ↑ "Motherload on Miniclip". Miniclip.
  10. ↑ "Motherload on XGenStudios". XGen Studios.
  11. ↑ "Subsurface Comic". Penny Arcade.
  12. ↑ "Subsurface". Penny Arcade. on November 19th, 2013
  13. ↑ "Digging the Mystery". IGN.
  14. ↑ "PlayStation Blog Editors' Choice". Sony PlayStation.


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