I was wrong. (yay!)
Turns out, the game is roughly based on Space Invaders, but only to the extent of the gameplay genre. Your ship automatically fires shots at fixed intervals, and there's only left and right movement. Aliens flow out from all sides of the screen firing lasers as aliens typically do. Every so often, there's a boss level as expected. But that's where the similarities end.
Players are presented a with an array of around five weapons, each with different characteristics, such as the plasma gun's shotgun-style spread. At the end of each level in casual mode (there's others, just haven't gotten to them yet), a store screen gives the player the ability to buy new lives and upgrade their weapons, something that really adds to the "I need to keep playing" value that makes this game so hard to put down.
The game mode I'm playing through right now is "Casual Mode", which is some sort of campaign mode; there's some dialog in the game that adds a few brief relax moments. Thankfully, the dialog is well-written with some great humor added in here-and-there; one of the lines made a small reference to the original Space Invaders from the 80's (but you'll just have to play it to find out what it was :P)
I still have yet to play the other modes like Survival as of yet, but from what I can guess, it'll probably be much more similar to the classic arcade version of Space Invaders, with a set number of lives, which when expended will make you restart from zero points.
Radiant HD will be free for the rest of the day (2/26) on Amazon Apps Marketplace, after which it will resume its previous price of $2.00.
The app is also available on Android Marketplace here > https://market.android.com/details?id=net.hexage.radiant.hd&hl=en
Go download it!
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