The Collider 2 has a Wing Commander-esque appearance, but this is actually a more casual runner style game that happens to take place in space. While it’s systems and mechanics are pretty basic and shallow, there’s actually a lot of content and challenge here.
The only things you control in The Collider 2 is your ship’s position and whether or not your boost is active. Shooting takes place automatically when necessary and you can’t stop or even slow down. The challenge comes from having to skillfully manipulate these two simple mechanics very quickly to stay ahead of the levels rushing toward you.
The Collider 2 has two modes, a mission-based mode where you go through a series of missions ranging from time attack to item collection to target destruction and an endless score attack mode. The variety in mission mode is a bit lacking but there are a large number of levels available and they start to get very challenging very quickly. It will likely take you a number of hours to get through everything. The endless mode puts you in a never-ending, randomly generated level where you are scored not only on how long you survive but how much you boost as well. Your goal is simply to survive as long as possible and to try to reach the highest position on the online leaderboards.
There is also currency in the game that you can use to buy new ships, upgrades to their base abilities, cosmetic paint jobs and extensions to the length of the various powerups you’ll encounter in the levels. Despite the presence of in-game currency, you can only earn it in the game, there are no micro transactions whatsoever. Yes, those with more upgrades can get higher on the leaderboards more easily but you can earn that same preference yourself just by playing the game. This is how it should be.
