Reviews

Review by amarillion all reviews by amarillion

This game is based on the story of the UK Marines captured by the Iranian military, a recent story that hit news channels around the world. The hero is an angry citizen desparate to do something about the situation.

Patriotic as it may be, what he does next doesn\'t seem to be the smartest course of action. Wearing nothing but the Union Jack, he drops in Iranian territory in search for the missing marines. All alone, with only a puny little pistol to defend himself.

Lucky for you, the author of this game never had time to add real enemies to the game. Otherwise, no doubt, you would have seriously failed your mission. All that happens now is that you, the hero walk across garbage heaps, dodging the occasional Barrel that is thrown at you (Supposedly the barrel is filled with Oil? I guess they have plenty of Oil). But you must avoid the barrels at all cost because if they hit you there is an explosion which results in the bloody amputation of both your legs and the end of the game for you. Luckily this is not how the news story unfolded in reality. I\'m not sure it would have been a good ending this way.

The background, which scrolls at a slower speed than the foreground, displays a slightly blurry garbage heap, which actually gives it a nice depth effect. Also, the terrain is varying in height which is a nice technical touch. You can jump, you can duck, you can shoot your gun although there is nothing to shoot at.

Ok, so the author apologizes in the readme because the game was written in only a single day. This shows. Still I\'m going to give it a 3 for artistical, because of the relation to the current news event.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 1 Genre 2

Review by Hard Rock all reviews by Hard Rock

A simple game where you walk right across some dynamic terrain (this part of the game is pretty neat, also you characters walks up and down as he moves on it, a nice touch), trying to jump over barrels and shooting. When you shoot you get points. When you jump over barrels you get points. You can’t actually hit anything by shooting and once you hit a barrel the game is over, it makes you wonder why you actually carry a gun?

A okay game, but it probably won’t entertain for very long at all.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 2 Technical 3 Genre 3

Review by joeld42 all reviews by joeld42

Pretty impressive for just having one day to work on it. It seemed to lock up when I died though. Nice graphics and funny concept.

Overall -- A good start. music is a plus.
Artistical -- Definately based on current events, and good graphics too.
Technical -- Nice multiplane scrolling. But the smoke/fire was kind of weak. :)
Genre -- I didn\'t see any garbage.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 3 Genre 2

Review by Cacodaemon all reviews by Cacodaemon

I played this game but i think it is not complete i coudnt see any dynamic fire or smoke... .
The Trash Theme is not supportet only the News Theme is integrated... .
This game dosent makes fun ist just jumping over barrels? and when they hit you i think the game is over... .
You can shoot too but ther barrels? cant be destroyed.

With some enemys and some effects it could be more but at this moment ist just a demo and no game wich make fun to play.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 1 Technical 1 Genre 2

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