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Review by Eric_Love all reviews by Eric_Love

Playing a board game (including throwing the dice and moving your token along the board one space at a time) on a computer seemed a bit absurd to me, but then again, when I was 10 I used to play computer games on the blackboard. My brother would make the choices while I would write on the board what was happening.
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Scores: Overall None Artistical None Technical None Genre None

Review by gcsaba2 all reviews by gcsaba2

Tin Party by CGamesPlay is a parody of Mario Party, a game I have never played or it was on Commodore 64 so I forgot about it. You have 4 contestants, each starting at position 0, each player rolls the dice and moves as much positions as the dice game him, 10 being the maximum. An interesting element of the game is that they do not race on some straight path, but rather a sine wave.

That being the description of the game, I think it is not completely finished. The menu presents you with the options of playing a multiplayer game (you vs. 3 computers for example), but you can also play \"1 on 1\" and \"Single player\". Well, these last two options don\'t work, I guess either the author did not have the time to implement them or he forgot to throw them out of the finishing design. Anyway, let\'s start with the \"multiplayer game\". You need to select 1 character out of 4 (with the troll being the 5th, but you need to unlock him by playing 12 times). Then you select the opponents, and finally a map. The only map given is a sine wave. This is fine. Unfortunately, I can chose not to select the since wave by pressing the \"down\" key and when I press \"space\" the game will crash. OK, so I finally got to play the game, and I\'m Player 4. The first 3 computer players throw the dice, they move away from me, then I throw the dice, and I get 2. I move only 2 places, which puts me in the last position. The computer players throw again, they move away, I throw again, and I get 3. OK, I may be bitter for always ending up last, but is there a way to predict how the dice will fall? I tried observing the numbers; I don\'t see any pattern there. It doesn\'t matter when I press space to stop the dice, cause it won\'t affect the final outcome. In the end, my game broke down to watching my opponents moving 9 or 10 spaces, then I move 2-3 and again the agony starts.
In short, this may be a good game, but it\'s just not the game for me. It irritated me cause I always kept losing :)

The game elements are there. I didn\'t play 12 times to unlock the troll, but I trust the author that this will happen. The graphics are not at a very high level, the background is black-white, and there aren\'t any sounds. Sounds are very important in a game. Never forget the sounds!

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 1 Technical 2 Genre 2