Customer Reviews

N2O: Nitrous Oxide

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This game is truly one of my favs. I believe that it does get kinda repetitive, but that doesn't really bother me too much with this one. The graphics are good, but what you'll really notice about the game is it's extraordinary visuals and lightning. It's also got the best soundtrack for a video game. Techno doesn't get any better than The Crystal Method.

You start out the game choosing between one of four different ships. Not many, but you'll find cool is that you can customize it with virtually any color and then give it a body pattern. There are 30 levels, which is really 15 and then the same 15 again but with greater difficulty.

It's a very simple game (travel along the tunnel and shoot bugs), but a very fun game nonetheless. Sometimes the speed can get insanely fast, making it very exciting. However, I never recommend anything, simply because people like different things. So check this one out for yourself.

I have to admit - this game isn't exactly bubbling over with plot, complex storyline, fancy characters, secret levels/tracks/powerups, or so on. If that's what you are looking for, then you should definately go elsewhere.

What this game focuses on is simple, addictive, ultra-fast paced gameplay with plenty of eye-candy to go with - not replace - good game play and mechanics.

It's rather simplistic - travel around the outside of a tunnel, shooting all the "insects" that are coming at you, while collecting the occasional extra weapon, avoid all the enemy shots/obstacles, and kill the boss at the end of each level. All that, while there are plenty of flashing lights and fancy visual effects, while the tunnel sometimes morphs and bends obscuring your vision, and while the game speeds up level after level after level...

It's very much old-style, and the comparisons to Tempest are somewhat accurate - with the Crystal Method soundtrack, and a comfortable seat, you should soon find yourself in "the zone", where you're more reacting than consciously playing - and that's just what you need to do.

If you have other simplistic shooters, you're not likely to have much room for this one alongside them - but if you don't have any, and want one for the occasional mindless game with beautiful visuals, this is surely it.

The best thing that this game has going for it, is its sound track, that is completely made up of techno from CRYSTAL METHOD. But the game is HIGHLY ADDICTING, to the point you start playing at seven at night and don't stop till 5 in the morning. This isn't a personal experience since my friends refused to let go of the controllers as they were completely absorbed by the awsome visual graphics and the sweet sounds of Crystal Method. This game will literally put you in a trance. Considering the price that Amazon offers this game to you, you might as well buy it, then by the fifth time you go to your local rental store to play it with your friends and realize that you should have bought it in the first place and saved yourself the time and money. Overall just get it if you like techno, and Crystal Method is the Creame of the Crop to me, and action games like a simple shooter, besides, this game needs only one adjetive when you get in the higher levels and especially the bonus levels, PSYCHADELIC.

This game is truly the Tempest of the new century. Basically this game is tunnel shooter. You travel down a tunnel swiveling around it and shooting the bugs to get a high score. This has been done before, and usually is quite boring. But NOT THIS TIME.

Where other games of this sort falters this one blasts off into the stratosphere. The walls of the tunnel undulate, collapse, and move back and forth faster and faster as you progress. The more enemies you shoot, the faster you go. The hypnotic music keeps your ears glued, while your eyes soak up the sweet (especially for their time) visuals. And when you die (as surely you must), a huge amount of nitrous oxide is released, giving you an enormous speed boost (and possibly causing you to die again)!

Of course, this is all before you enter the cheat codes (which do crazy things like making the whole screen ripple like it's underwater!). As far as shooters of this kind go, this really is the cream of the crop. It ranks up there with Einhander, Raiden Project, and the R-Types. Get it if you love shooters.

This game is the best shooter game made to date. With the brilliant colors and lightning speed, this game bring the funnest and fastest gameplay. The soundtrack of Crystal Method is a perfect match for this game. One great thing about this game is if you don't like or listened to the Crystal Method way too much you can just wait for the game to load and put in any music CD of your choice. It's a psychodelic, futuristic joyride.

You wouldn't think that a game premised on the idea that you, the last bastion of defense for a planet fed by Nitrous Oxide tubes under assault by a variety of insects, would be fun. In fact, most games that are as dated as this game have been phased out and are no good for play at all. You either have places where pixels come into play, ideas that have gone out-of-style, or you have a system that just doesn't love you any more. The strange thing about this game is that it has modern elements of a game designed around something akin to everything from Tempest (one of the best Atari games ever made if you didn't have the luxury) to Silpheed, that the graphics are still brilliant because of the way the colors go from flashy to dark and hide the outmoded, and that this beast is powered by a soundtrack purely driven by The Crystal Method so the sound doesn't go out-of-style.
That makes for quality gaming.

Admittedly, the game isn't thick with plot and works more on a sensory level. It has a Gradius-like quality as you move along, blasting caps into various types of insects as you pick up weapons/ coins that can be traded in for a variety of power-up or more weapons/ shields and all other types of goodies. Each level basically introduces a new type of insect into the fra and, before long, each of these insects comes with something akin to a boss. Some of these require a lot of thought, some planning, and really good reaction time.
That's where The Method helps out.

Many games have a soundtrack but N2O basically has all of the first Crystal Method album, the remixes that came along with it, and this creates an ambiance that kicks like a mutha. When you couple this with tubes filled with bright colors, insects that manifest like hordes of angry mobs, and a ship you can pick out based on its handling and then color-code for your perfection and you have a beautiful game.
Considering the price and the fact that it takes talent and time and you have a game that keeps on keeping on.

I remember "Tempest" in the arcade, and reading the reviews here, I see other people remember it too. I would also tell people "think Millipede, but in 3-D."

"Nitrous Oxide" (AKA "N2O") is one of those games that's so great, not because it had the most programmers working on it, but because the one or two guys knew what they wanted. The game's immediate payoff made me reminisce back to the times I had fun playing the blocky images of games in the Atari VCS/2600. This one is more advanced, and stands up as well now as the day it released. But, for FIVE DOLLARS, USED, you'd be a fool to pass up this offer, if just to give this game a try. If you don't like it, you can still put the game disc in your CD player to listen to the Crystal Method soundtrack, as people could do with some of the PS1 game discs.

This game gives you a scary fix. Let me try and explain. You drive a spaceship, resembling a locust or beetle painted with bright-colored, camouflage patterns like poisonous insects; down the insides of a 3-D, moving tunnel, resembling small intestines, but rather full of wild, vivid colors; shooting various insects, spiders, centipedes, and other etcetera from off the walls; while dodging them, spider webs, and other paraphernalia; in a game called "Nitrous Oxide"; while grooving to the music of the Crystal Method. This game is a light show.

It has a two-player mode, both split-screen OR together on one screen. My friends and I used to take the PS2 into the TV room in our residence hall with the large-screen TV, turn out the lights, and play games. Playing this game in a setting like this, whoa! It looked like the whole room was going down a tube! "N2O" is not for people with motion sickness, or people with epilepsy.

Other than this, it is a pretty psychadelic affair that I like in my collection. Every once-in-a-while, I put this in to remind people of how cool some PS1 games still are. And with the PS2, you can get better graphics and reduced loads (which are nonexistent for "N2O" anyway) by flipping the two switches at the PS2 start-up screen. Press the triangle button, twice, and you get the menu. Then, put the game CD in.

Finally, I would like to respond to the one negative review posted here. Yes, you can just mash the "shoot" button through the warm-up levels while holding down the directional pad left or right; but, you can't get far. You rack up the points and win levels by using another different technique: it's called, "playing the game". Besides, I can't ignore the beauty of the game by writing an aloof review.

if you loved tempest and maybe even tempest X3, you gonna love this...it's a little bit like S.T.U.N. Runner from back in the day, in that you drive on the inside of a pipe. but this one is really fast ! simple, but very effective game.

this is one of those fun games thats good to play when your bored or compete with your friends to see who can beat it first. its not one of those games that leaves u hanging at the edge of your seatand u cant stop thinking about it, its just a good time for whenever...its got really good graphics and the awesomest music too...lets face it, if it looked like a big colored dot that shot little white dots at big brown blobs, all the while playing some stupid arcade melody, it wouldnt be worth even writing a review for...its pretty cool

Oh the pain, make it stop. The gameplay here is so repetitive it actually hurts. Basically, you've got Tempest with more colors and better music. Heck, I just spun through the tubes as fast as I could while blasting away without thinking and finished the first several levels. Weak.