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Review by FalseMasterJ all reviews by FalseMasterJ

This entry kind of reminds of me of when I first participated TINS.
The idea was a good one, but things got in the way that prevented it from becoming what was originally planed.
The code wasn\'t as messy as when I first tried, I had almost everything in a single main.cpp (and got thoroughly lost)

What was I talking about again? right kenmasters1976\'s entry.

It is fun for what it is. An incomplete game.
In this game you try to clear the screen chaotically by pressing space bar while the scenery warps slightly around you. Pretty good destruction fulfillment.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 1 Technical 2 Genre 3

Review by FalseMasterJ all reviews by FalseMasterJ

Aliens on Fire is one of the few games that I can compile and run on my mac, so I\'m glad that I\'m assigned to review this game.

In this game you strategically plan where to shoot the missile on each of the randomly generated planets. The goal of the game is to get as much score as possible on these 7 (plus 1) planets.

Overall this is a great game, nothing is laking or unnecessarily added on.

The theme of destruction is played out well, especially when you plant a few mines on the planet. The world-domination artistical requirement kind of goes along with this main theme. I fail to see the logic of the insulting NPC\'s plan (destroying worlds to dominate them makes \"perfect\" sense), which make him even more irritating. A plus for that.

I\'m still mind boggled on how entheh made 3-d rotating planets (I still wish I can see Sos\' or stevenvi\'s Entry in action). The games engine is very solid. Though at first I thought that the whole 3-d system was done with atan2 (shows what I know) it was only used for the final cut scene. The explosions uses quite a few tricks to get it the way it\'s looking.

I still think that a mouse click would have been a more intuitive missile luncher button, and maybe an different way of instructing of how to plant mines (via insults maybe).

Aliens on Fire is one of the top three games for me, and it\'s replay value is about medium (unless your trying to get the highest score then it\'s replay value is quite high).

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 5