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Showing 6 reviews by Blackroot [2007]. all reviews

Rubble Trouble
by Cacodaemon
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Review by Blackroot all reviews by Blackroot

Not taking into account that this game was made in one weekend
i feel like the game is lacking in all aspects. The worst thing
about the game is the gameplay, the character is too slow and
trying to avoid those \"things\" while picking up different types
of waste isn\'t fun, it\'s just time consuming. Looking at the
artistical quality i\'d say it\'s next to nothing, with only a
short text in the main menu saying \"Climate Disaster We
Will All Die!!!\" the game falls to the very bottom of the
artistical society. The graphics.. oh the horror, shadowed
objects that rotate? i don\'t know what to say so i\'ll quote
my little sister when she played the game: \"va fult\". Lets
just say the graphics isn\'t the strongest part of the game.
Looking at the technical part, i can tell Cacodaemon clearly
didn\'t have enought time to finish the game, the game
contains a smoke effect, but no fire effect (atleast i could
not find one) and the game crashes upon exiting. Being all
about collecting garbage and evade climate disasters this
game fits perfectly into the position of the required genre.

Even if this game fails in almost every possible way i
somewhat feel like it isn\'t that bad, and it is after all
created in one weekend, some polishing(pretty much that is)
could make this game into something more respectable.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 2 Technical 2 Genre 4

Eleven Monkeys
by amarillion
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Review by Blackroot all reviews by Blackroot

Giving me a mixed first impression with an ugly looking menu with
awesome music, this game turned out to be the game i liked the most.
The graphics are great for a weekends work, featuring eleven
cool-looking animated monkeys, two bull-dozer drivers and a garbage
heap with windows logos in it (nice!). Enought sweet talk: the
game resembles packman, the largest difference is that you create
the paths yourself with your bulldozer, this isn\'t as fun as it
sounds, because the AI sucks(understandable) and it\'s practically
impossible to lose. I don\'t know what eleven over-sized monkeys
have to do with the news so i guess there is nothing to say
about the artistical part of this game other than that it dosen\'t
exist(however, the news plays a part in the game such as in between
levels and in the story). You drive a bulldozer around in a garbage
heap, and that\'s it for the genre part. As for the technical part
it has both fire and smoke effects, on the contrary to the fire
effect the smoke effect is very weak, small black circles comes
from the bulldozer and the source of the smoke dosen\'t even change
when you turn your bulldozer around.. Can\'t complain about the
gameplay, except from the stupid enemies and monotonous maps.

Reading the readme makes me very sad, the music isn\'t original,
nor is some of the graphics, the code reuse (main loop, menu,
resource management, object handling) seems to be a lot
and therefor i don\'t respect the game as much as i did before,
but it\'s still great, and it\'s still my fav.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 3 Technical 3 Genre 3

Iran Wars
by Simon Parzer
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Review by Blackroot all reviews by Blackroot

You walk and try to jump over small stuff that blow
your legs of if you don\'t jump over them.. FIN.
Not really, the ONLY thing that i could consider good
in this game was that the terrain was randomized,
(at least i looks like it is) and it would have been fun
if there actually was something to do on it. There is
something called score which you increase by jumping
over the bombs and by shooting.. i don\'t know what this
game is about.. maybe you play the role of a manianic
brittan who who\'s on a killing spree... the readme says
something about a British soldier in Iraq bla bla...
no smoke as far as i can see, the fire however does
exist.. but i don\'t think it\'ll qualify as
\"made on the fly\". Ok, garbage heaps in the background
acceptable, garbage bombs? not accepted..
\"garbage all over his body\" funny, not true.

Scores: Overall 1 Artistical 1 Technical 2 Genre 1

Ballz
by darkbits
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Review by Blackroot all reviews by Blackroot

While undoubtly being the best game at tins 07\' this game
still dosen\'t really make me feel like \"wow\", the gameplay
is about reaction, there\'s no puzzle solving nor action
just plain \"press a key\", while that might be fun for some
people i\'m a fan of control and i would have appreciated
to have a bit more to do (you do however, get some special
powers which do give you a bit more control). I\'m not
saying the game was easy because it certainly wasn\'t, but
trying to jump over that f***** thing a hundred times
didn\'t really make me feel good.. actually, i have a great
temperament when it comes to games, but Ballz almost made me
angry with it\'s \"stupidity\". The graphics are nice, the
game seems well programmed and there\'s not much left to
complain about ... just kidding: the thing i hated the
most and what probably made me dislike ballz was the
dialogs you tried to skip as fast as you could but you
ended up wasting about 90% of your time on it..
also the map design felt like it was made with this guide
line: \"oh, this will add a few seconds to finish the map\"..
ok, it might be fun to try to beat your current \"best time\",
but sometimes i just felt like i wanted to tear the map
into pieces! :). also: the garbage part suck..
Anyway, great game Team Darkbits!

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 5 Technical 4 Genre 1

Gangs of Garbage City
by BigBrain
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Review by Blackroot all reviews by Blackroot

Collecting garbage is the meaning of this game, and
spending a lot of time looking at your character walk
between the garbage and the garbage truck apparently.
This results in you not wanting to play anymore when you
see 20 garbage object and easily multiply that with the
time it takes to dispose of them, \"monster kill\".
The graphics isn\'t really the best, but they\'re ok.
It has fire and smoke, which looks strange. You can
walk of the map and fall down into the endless pits of
hell! but you won\'t lose untill the Ozone-o-meter hits
the top. A few ememies turn up in later levels and add
a bit of variation to the game, they\'re pretty harmless
thought. The Game crashes when you close it with the
esc key.. unless you\'re in the main menu. GoGC could
have been much better i feel, but time isn\'t an
infinite resource right? :).

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 3 Genre 3

Space Junk
by graue
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Review by Blackroot all reviews by Blackroot

This game is strange, first it gave me a bad impression,
then it gave me a good one, just to go back to being bad.
The first thing you face in-game is small pieces of a
meteorite or something which feels kinda cool, they collide
into each other giving birth to smaller pieces, and they do
different amount of damage on you, the biggest pieces burns
in an unrealistic way and look more like small torches but
at least it\'s fire, after the first wave things go bad,
there\'s small blue stuff shooting white/grey stuff and
aliens flying in some sort of spaceship which looks like
a bad made rock with a strange fire like effect behind.
the worst encounter was the blocks... i seriously can\'t
think of something it could represent.. anyway, after
the unidentifiable stuff the waves reset and you face the
metroids again, i don\'t know if the difficulty increases
but i played a long time without noticing much, it makes
good use of a current event(not current anymore) and you
play \"inside\" it.

I may have sounded a little to positive, but please note
that a lot of things still sucks. :).

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 2