
Digital Eel, one of the most creative developers on the indie scene (creators of Brainpipe and Strange Adventures in Infinite Space among others) has recently released their next major title, Data Jammers: Fast Forward.
There's some hugger-mugger about how you're a hacker infiltrating the secret data systems of the Military-Industrial Complex to crash them, but the gameplay makes Data Jammers a kind of arcade track game in which you slide along a trippy highway curved and splitting in 3D space, avoiding enemy data objects while trying to pick up rings for score, along with the occasional powerup. New enemies and features are introduced over time, and what's an easy game to play at early levels gradually becomes more complex and difficult, with use of bombs needed to destroy or evade enemies and reach the track end without dying -- and certainly to achieve a high score. In other words, the gameplay is not as original as we usually expect from Digital Eel, but the enemies and effects are imaginative, and the controls very smooth.