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Review by BigBrain all reviews by BigBrain

In this game you control a tank or a chopper (or both) and try to defeat the bases of the enemies. They will of course defend the bases by attacking you.

Artistical:
The graphics fit together very well and the dialogs show up quite smooth. There are many different objects in the game (many just as an extra detail like trees etc).

Technical:
atan2 is used at least for the AI aiming (didn\'t dig into the sourcecode too much)- All game elements work together quite well, and the game engine features many types of them (e.g. menu background animation, intro, player, driving enemies, towers, trees, base, ...)

Genre:
Destruction is not happening \"all around, all the time\", but it\'s an essential part of the game to destroy the enemies and the base. A problem with the gameplay is, that the game is way to easy: dying takes ages as one hit only deals 4 damage (from 100 HP) and if you play as chopper you can\'t die at all if you fly high.

Overall one can say that there are many little details featured in the game which makes it look very polished. The gameplay isn\'t too fun, as the game is way too easy, but could be tweaked easily (less health, more damage, less movement speed, ...). However, I liked the game very much because the details were worked out so nicely, and that\'S what TINS is all about, isn\'t it? ;-)

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 3

Review by BigBrain all reviews by BigBrain

Yeah, a 3D game for TINS 08, something different.

Story:
An evil emperor called Mao Tse Tsung wants to take over the world domination by turning all humans into \"box-ppl\". You are a butterfly and your goal is to stop Mao Tso Tsung by killing all of his box people by creating monsoons (well, tiny monsoons).

Gameplay:
You control the giant butterfly with mouse only (mouse movement controls camera, left moves forward, right creates a monsoon) and the box ppl just stand around doing nothing. There\'s not really something like difficulity, the only way to die is to crash into the floor (and then the die animation lasts until infinity). One bug I noticed was that the \"kill counter\" would even increase if you shot already dead box ppl.
Anyways, the game can easily be \"won\" by just turning around in circles and rightclicking as often as possible and thus killing all the people.

Artistical score: 3
Big bonus for using 3D graphics. Another nice thing is that many things (well, there aren\'t too many game elements though) are animated which looks quite nice. However, on my computer the screen always flashed when I moved the camera which was very disturbing. The intro dialog (only one dialog is a bit few) is just a simple multi-line textprintf\'ish call and it doesn\'t insult the player. The NPC in this case is the evil emperor, but the whole story doesn\'t really seem to be connected with the gameplay at all.

Technical score: 4
The atan2 function is first used in draw_shot and second when simulating the moment, when the monsoon hits the box ppl (which kinda reminds me of my game, just in 3D).
The effect when the box people are thrown through the air when hit looks great, one neat detail.
Yet again a small bonus for using 3D.

Genre score: 2
The game is all about destruction, so this rule is fullfilled.
However, it doesn\'t really feel like destruction, more like \"click the right mouse button and gain more points\", probably because all you can \"destroy\" are the box people.

Oeverall score:2
There\'s not much gameplay here and the rules are only partially fullfilled, so this game only gets two points by me.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 2