Atomaders 2/Gameplay

Menu screen
The game has 7 options to choose from in the Main menu, Start Game opens up the Sector selection screen where the player can select from 11 different sectors to start the game, if there is no progress yet then only Alpha will be able to play for now, Hall of Fame opens the local Leaderboards, Options opens a sub menu with 4 options to choose from, Options opens the volume slider settings and toggles for extra in-game effects such as Particles and Background Animations, Help opens the Help section of the game which explains its various mechanics, About shows the game version and the people involved with the game, Close closes the sub menu and goes back to the main menu, More Games opens the official website containing all the other games KraiSoft offers, Register will open an external window causing the game to minimize, the external window will request for the basic information of the player which will be used to submit their score on the Worldwide Hall of Fame, if the player has successfully registered the button will be greyed out, and Exit closes the game.

Interface
The 4 holes in the top left section of the screen is your extra weapon charge, once you get at least 1 extra weapon drop, this will fill up at least one hole and show the "mini" icon of the extra weapon right beside the mentioned 4 holes, the numbers beside your ship icon is your number of lives, the values beside your number of lives is your score, and the top right segment of the screen shows the level you currently reside within a certain sector, if an active power-up is taken, the icon for the said power-up will show up in the bottom right section of the screen and the icon will flash when the power-up is about to disappear.

Controls
The ship can be controlled with either a joystick, the keyboard, or the mouse, the Left mouse button is used to fire the normal shot, and the Right mouse button is used to fire the extra weapon, the mouse can also be steered to move the ship around, for keyboard, Left and Right keys are used to move the ship sideways, Space is used to fire the normal shot and Up key is used to fire the extra weapon.