Reviews

Review by entheh all reviews by entheh

I don\'t have to review this to qualify, but I want to because amz is my friend and Codnik is a girl! Go girl coders!

Overall: 4. A good, fun game. It is a little too hard on the first attempt, and it lacks a main menu framework to encourage you to keep trying, but it has great music which helps to compensate for that!
Artistic: 5. The dialogue is included and fits perfectly. World domination is portrayed in a topical, entertaining way. The vector art style works very well and the colours are cool.
Technical: 4. It\'s smooth and it has beautiful particle explosions. The atan2() implementation is a little obvious but does fit well into the game. I do just have to withhold a point here because I couldn\'t work out what \"Torrents\" means and because the game is just a bit too hard.
Genre: 3. The destruction is obvious; I can\'t really give it more than average points.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 5 Technical 4 Genre 3

Review by Timorg all reviews by Timorg

I quite enjoyed playing this game, it took some practice to be able to successfully destroy a headquarters and collect the bits that are released.

Overall: 4. I found it quite polished and I actually liked the graphical style, it was a nice touch rather than just have sprites scribbled up in paint. The game was quite fun to play, even if it was a little hard at 1st.

Artistic: 4. The art was rudimentary, but I quite liked it. Messages from the MAFIAA are displayed on the screen. The game is about defeating the world domination of the MAFIAA.

Technical: 3. The game engine appears quite solid and atan2 is used in the code. There is also quite a bit of code reuse.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 3

Review by Gassa all reviews by Gassa

When you run the game, you are instantly put to control a schematic ship, after a slight movement towers around you start to shoot at you, and pretty soon you die, getting some 8-digit score which makes you suspect that someone forgot to initialize a variable. After that, the game ends. Duh.

Well, give it a dozen tries, and you start to get what\'s going on there. Your ship should move almost all the time, or the towers kill you easily. You, in turn, shoot at them from your side guns and eventually destroy them. You can also destroy the yellow blocks to get more room for shooting, and loot the brown squares which are guarded by guns; when destroyed, the squares let out a bunch of colorful binary numbers, some of which should be caught, others avoided. Reading the readme.txt file helps to determine their effects.

Towers, blocks and squares all repair when certain time has passed, so you should destroy and loot the squares really fast. Your life ends when either you have no guns (a pair of guns is destroyed by each hit from the towers) or run out of torrents (the blue binary numbers which you should beat out and catch). That\'s not at all easy; after trying again and again for about 30 minutes, I only managed to completely loot one base out of six. So, I don\'t know if something good shall happen if you manage to destroy them all, which is kind of un-probable, given the fact that they repair fast, and you usually run out of torrents even faster.

All in all, this game is much fun once you grasp the rules. Often lasting less than a minute, it is very intense and keeps the player alert and active all the time. Graphics are rather simplistic, but the music, sound and the tower guards shouting text messages at you contribute to the active spirit of the gameplay.

The ratings follow.

Artistical: 4.
+ The insulting takes place in text messages. That\'s not exactly a dialog since you can only answer with your guns, but it counts for the artistical rule requirement.
- Graphics are a bit too simplistic - well, you don\'t have much time to look at them anyway.
+ However, music and sound make a nice game atmosphere.

Technical: 5.
+ atan2 is obviously used by the towers.
- As for the world domination rule, you can just find a simple storyline for it in the readme.txt file.
+ Hmm, actually, losing so fast, you do get the feel of being dominated.
+ The game runs smoothly, all parts are well integrated.

Genre: 5.
+ With that shooting sound and the torrents popping out of the bases, you actually get the destruction feeling.
+ Conforming to the genre rule, it is all about destruction, and fast.

Overall: 4.
- The game is a bit hard to start with. Some introductory level or in-game tips would have been nice.
+ Besides that, once you get the rules, it is very fun, fast and addictive.
+ Graphics (simplistic but sufficient), music and sound are all in place and serve their purpose.
- Other things to wish for are some menu and a scoreboard; a score without a scoreboard doesn\'t make much sense.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 5 Genre 5