Overview: Astro Miner is a nice little game that's cartoonish and easy to play (easier if you have a joystick or game pad to play with). Move, shoot, gather gold and power-ups, then dance a jig at your success. Really straight forward, simple and above all slightly below average. But, I hate to say, it just doesn't do anything to wow you.
Overall Score: 2/5
Game play: I love to shoot digital people and creatures, so any game that allows me to do so will get at least one once over. And that's all this one will ever get. While the bursts of light and sound effects are appealing, they don't save the game from sucking disappointment through a straw and spraying it in your face. If I had paid for this game I would just give it away to some little kid I didn't like.
Game play: 1/5
Graphics and Sounds: Flashy and cheap, like a Mexican bottle rocket. They complement the game well and may distract people with short attention spans, but those with average IQ or jobs they could be doing will quickly drop this game off and never come back to it. Good to have known it, but it was only a phase.
Graphics and Sounds: 1/5
Creativity and Innovation: NONE WHAT SO EVER. Nothing you see here hasn't been done before. The graphics look like gravel, and the sounds are plain. For simplicities sake they could have made only one screen for adjusting the configuration that is embedded in the game, not one that is separate and incomplete (you can't change the button config). I would give them a zero, but they at least made one. Just like in school, you get a grade for trying. But you shouldn't be happy for failing when you try.
Creativity and Innovation: 1/5
Recap: This game got a 2/5 because it functions as a game and the developers deserve one point for making a game. But I won't be buying this game so they can continue to make below average games. Hopefully collective lack of support will lead to better games later. Log this away in the hall of misfits.