G-Force Retro Remake

G Force

Sometimes 3d isn’t always the best.

G-Force takes the frenetic action of Dave Theurer’s classic vector shooter Tempest and transposes it into two dimensions.

Described by PC Zone as “…a brilliant remake of the classic blaster”, “sickeningly difficult” and containing “Jeff Minter-esque crude humour”, G-Force is a game to melt the eyeballs, keep the trigger finger twitching and to keep you coming back for more.

“The screen is quite ablaze with wonderfully liquid explosions and surreal, text based effects” according to the RetroGamer magazine review, “fast dynamic levels keep the intense gameplay white hot”, “G-Force takes a wealth of old material and combines it with the popularity of modern arcade traits to give us a fresh and fun packed few minutes of pure, eye-straining escapism”.

A rather nice and appreciated 83% from RetroGamer magazine for a game that’s not even complete yet.

To try 20 levels of the G-Force experience, why not treat yourself to the work in progress version currently available to download?

G-Force works fine under XP and Vista these days, so you should be alright providing you have one of those fine OS running on your computer. There’s a possibility down the line of a Mac version, but given it’s taken a year or so to get this far with G-Force, I wouldn’t hold your horses.

Download the game, unzip it to it’s own directory. Click the .exe, wait a few moments for the thing to load and off you trot.

Click here to grab the latest supported beta version of G-Force (June 2007)

G-Force is also featured on The Great Games Experiment, along with more screenshots, videos and information than you could ever need. Feel free to nip along, have a browse and if you’d be so kind - your rating would be welcome too.

G-Force is controllable via the keyboard or a PC compatible gamepad.

Left/Right - Cursor Keys or Stick 1 Left/Right
Fire - Z or Y or Button 1
Superzapper - X or Button 2

The Superzapper can only be fired once per web. At the end of every web, the Superzapper is recharged.

Visit the G-Force Development Log (of sorts) at Retro Remakes

G-Force Old Versions (not Vista compatible unless stated) - files are for historical purposes and to show the development cycle of G-Force and its evolution over the development period. I’m not entirely sure why anyone would want to bother with them, but I guess if you’re after a step by step insight into how G-Force has evolved (ergo - you’re completely off your box insane) then here are a fair few of the builds. There’s quite a few missing towards the latter days as I’ve yet to upload any interim builds and I’m not sure how many I still have, but I’ll try and fill in as many gaps as possible over time.

Early Development Builds (Non Public)

5th October 2006
6th October 2006
7th October 2006
11th October 2006
25th October 2006
28th October 2006
29th October 2006
3rd November 2006

Builds from first public release to present version

3rd November 2006
10th November 2006
25th November 2006
26th November 2006
28th November 2006
4th December 2006
5th December 2006
January 25th 2007
February 15th 2007

Vista Compatible builds (from June 2007 to latest)

June 21st 2007
Private Test Build December 7th 2007
Test Build (Teleport Test Level 15) December 15th 2007
Experimental Build #1 December 15th 2007

To enable older versions of G-Force to run under Vista, please use the GM6x convertor from YoYoGames on the executables to patch the files. Cock knows if it works or not, but you can but try.

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