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Enemies don't drop loot that you can instantly equip, but rather drop different elements that represent currency. You can then cash in this currency to buy powerful gun upgrades, secondary weapons, or to stock power-ups. You accumulate additional accoutrements by completing levels, either online or offline, as well as by cashing in your hard-earned carbon to purchase three tiers of increasingly attractive armor. Whereas the initial set of armor is short in its coverage and appearance, the top-of-the line armor lives up to its designation: wicked. Though you can't do anything flashy with it, the armor certainly protects you from taking the full amount of damage from enemy weapons.
Even though the core experience of shooting martians is fun, the game has a number of problems that impair this fun. Thanks to glitches in single-player, the enemies will sometimes jump from one spot to another. The collision detection of your character is off a bit as well. When you don't walk over an item, you still pick it up. Enemy fire also hits you when its trajectory should be bypassing your position. Camera speed during gameplay is often a problem too, which results in preventing slower characters from saving prisoners, unlocking control panels, or otherwise completing secondary objectives.
You'll be taking out a lot of martians during the course of the game.
During online play, the scrolling problem is only exacerbated. The way the levels pan may end up leaving you unable to get at an objective or trapped behind a wall, which forces other players to move on without you. We played many times with up to three other random participants, and these issues were not isolated. Players frequently got stuck, failed to respawn, or had to drop out because the level became a completely unplayable slide show. Although this didn't happen every time, the problem happened often enough to make any player wary of venturing into the online campaign.
After finishing on normal difficulty, there's really no compelling reason to play further. The online experience is inconsistent, buggy, and difficult to enjoy even if you have three friends willing to play. And truth be told, it is just the single-player game all over again. Despite Rocketmen's great visuals and its decent RPG system, the inherent faults of the game prevent it from being recommendable to anybody but the most dedicated of shooter fans.
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