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The Road to World Domination: Made Simple
by BigBrain
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Review by Gassa all reviews by Gassa

The game starts with some lines of text coming very slowly into existence, which is just ugly when you expect some action. Fortunately, it can be skipped by pressing ESC key.

Then, you see a level with four small blue spheres, two of which occasionally shoot tiny bullets, producing a sound. At first, it is kind of difficult to get what is going on, since everything is so small.

However, after playing for a while or reading the readme.txt file, you realize that two other spheres can be controlled by two players, and that\'s when the game starts to be fun. Single player however is not much of a game since the AI players don\'t move, only shoot. On the other side, playing with a human opponent can be very entertaining.

What you can do in the game is move, aim, jump and shoot, causing damage to your opponents and destroying inner walls of the level. Sometimes you can move or jump through walls, and moving to vertical walls lifts you to the top. These physics twists make the game even more challenging.

On the downside, mastering the game is hard and not very convenient since everything is just so small, and understanding the physics also takes quite a bit of time. Some better and bigger visualization, as well as visualizing the recharge time, would have been nice. Faster terrain destruction depending on the level should also be considered.

Well, to the rating part.

Artistical: 4.
- There seem to be no insulting dialogs in the game. Just slowness of the introductory scrolling text, which is not bad enough, and the text for winning or losing the game.
+ However, this is more than compensated by an excellent readme file, with a storyline, playing instructions and FAQ.

Technical: 4.
+ atan2 is obviously useful for the AI players.
+ Five different levels bring more strategies to the game.
- However, the game characters, i.e. spheres, are just too small to get a good feeling of them.

Genre: 5.
+ Having picked the genre, which is a game in the spirit of Scorch or Tanks, the obvious destruction part is, of course, to make the terrain destructable. That is well implemented.
- That might seem a bit too simple and worn, but fits the game well.

Overall: 4.
+ The game is actually fun, playable and replayable with two players.
+ The physics twist is sufficient to make it an interesting variation of an old plot.
- On the other side, trying it in single player can get you bored quickly.
- Also, characters are too small to get the good feeling of them.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 5

Review by codnik all reviews by codnik

The Road to World Domination: Made Simple

overall: 2. I gave it a go four or five times, but It didn\'t really catch my attention. Maybe playing with another human player it could be fun for a little while. The spheres\' movement is a bit weird and not smooth enough, but I guess the reason is the developer aimed for fast terrain coverage. The strange physics is intriguing at times but mostly it annoyed me ( too complex for my head? :P ). Non-human spheres are too dumb and usually kill themselves shooting at the terrain.

artistic: 2. The games\' excuse for world domination didn\'t convince me. The spheres are circles and just that. Terrain is ok, and the explosions are fine.

technical: 3. Obvious use of atan2 but who am I to judge? lol

genre: 2. Destruction is there, but the flow of the game is just too slow for my taste.

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 2 Technical 3 Genre 2