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Beetzkrieg
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Review by stevenvi all reviews by stevenvi

This game is also cute. I have just finished reviewing Jeff Bernard\'s Sexy Panda game, and must say that Beetzkrieg is even cuter. The artwork is adorable in this game, and I can tell that the author put some good effort in that.

In the game, you control a bee and must collect pollen from the flowers and bring it back to your hive. You can play against up to three of your friends. You fly down to the flowers at the ground, collect the pollen, return to your hive, drop off the pollen, and repeat. The player who collects the set quantity of pollen first wins!

While the concept is novel, it isn\'t particularly fun, which is unfortunate. I really like the look of the game, so I was hoping that it would stand out as one of the top entries. I tried to play with my fiancee, but we got bored of it very quickly and did not play again.

As I have said already, this game looks great. The art is wonderfully drawn and is pleasant to look at. There is no insulting that I am aware of in the game, however that does not mean this is not a part of the game. In my experience, most multiplayer games where you compete against others will always involve insulting dialog between the players. So were someone to play the game in the proper situation, they certainly would experience insulting dialog.

As for world domination, that\'s kind of in here, too. It is your goal to compete against the other bees and dominate your world: the flowers. So that\'s in there as well, and is key to the purpose of the game.

Technically, the game works. Colliding with the hives feels natural. But that\'s about it. There isn\'t much to the game. I do not see anything which would imply the use of atan2 in the game. Based on the readme file, I do not expect to find this anywhere in the source code.

This is one of the few games which has a menu. A menu is an excellent thing for any game, and I find it improves the playability of the game greatly. It gives it a more polished feeling than some of the other TINS entries.

The biggest technical problem I saw was the split-screen part. The screen splits just fine, but the viewports are not scaled. So you can see much more of the screen playing solo than you can with four. This should be altered in future versions; you cannot see much with four players.

Genre-wise, there is only a very minimal amount of destruction. You can destroy hive tiles by running into them then holding away, making you thrust your stinger at it. (Shh, that wouldn\'t really work for a real bee.) Other than that though, I didn\'t see destruction going on, but instead competition with the other bees.

Overall, the game was a disappointment. It is a unique concept, but it isn\'t quite working yet. Hopefully with time the author can improve on the game idea and produce a fun multiplayer game. Network support would be a good place to start.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 4 Technical 2 Genre 2

Review by entheh all reviews by entheh

This game has such wonderful graphics, I just had to review it!

Overall: 3. It has pluses and minuses.
Artistic: 4. It doesn\'t have insulting dialogue, but it does have a nice take on world domination, and the graphics are bright, colourful and professional.
Technical: 2. Sorry, there\'s no atan2(), my bee got stuck (bad collision response), and you can\'t see far enough! But I know you don\'t program very often, so don\'t lose heart - it\'s pretty darn good considering. The bees even go inside the flowers really cleanly and perfectly!
Genre: 1. Let\'s be honest - there\'s no destruction, is there?

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 4 Technical 2 Genre 1

Review by Sos all reviews by Sos

I just had to write a reviw for this one. I\'ll make it brief tho, so:

It has nothing to do with the rules, but the look of it is splendid. It just looks so eye-catchy. multiplayer is great too =] And the tune, that at first seems improper for the image, fits perfectly. That\'s why artistic: 5, rest: whatever.

:)

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 1