Icarus Review  Icarus may not bear the weight of predecessors
like Galaga, but it's a worthy entry into the genre nonetheless.
Top-down space shooters were fundamental to the foundation of
video games, requiring a complicated but mechanical ability to
dodge bullets and shoot them at the same time. In the years
since their introduction, space shooters have become less
popular, but all the more difficult to pull off successfully.
Icarus (no relation to the Kid) may not be a complex game, or
one whose gameplay will bear the weight of predecessors like
Galaga, but it's a worthy entry into the genre nonetheless.
Don't get burned, Icarus.  Compared with some of the more modern
space shooters, Icarus is a very primitive game, with only the
very basic shooter elements. You maneuver a ship through an
environment that is being constantly propelled forward, among
obstacles like space debris and asteroids. As you move, ships
fly toward you, and you must take them out while dodging their
projectiles. These projectiles,