Post by ggn on 07.05.12 at 06:43:59
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Right, what the world needs, yet another arkanoid clone. Woohoo! So what are the unique selling points of this game, which will make it stand above the rest and grab your interest?
Well, it's pseudo isometric 3D! Three Dee! One extra dimension than the rest! Yay! ....except it's slow. And when I say slow, I mean pathetically slow. It's so slow that you have a hard time trying to guess where the ball will go to at first launch. Because of course it would be really hard to mimic a good feature of arkanoid that's actually an improvement over breakout, that is the ball launching from the bat instead of laying in the middle of the screen and going wherever it likes. Another problem with this is that due to the 2-and-a-bit dimensions sometimes it's really hard to predict where the ball is going. And then, the graphics suffer the "instead of drawing graphics from scratch, why not nick the amstrad ones and double the size? Nobody will really notice, and I'm sure everyone will appreciate the eye straining palette and choice of colours!". Well, *bzzzzzzt*!
The levels are in 3D too! Which means that there is height too, so when you hit a brick, the rest start falling down. That's a rather nice idea, makes the levels a bit more interesting.
There are weird enemies! And they come right at you, change the course of the ball, and if they touch you, you die instantly! And it makes them a torture!
The bat has missiles!
There are power ups! That don't seem to do much, maybe give you an extra life or missile.
No mouse control! That's the best idea yet! Why confuse the people with analog devices when we can use digital ones! And, to prove a point, the main menu is mouse controlled!
It could have been a cool game. But the frame rate really kills it, no matter what you throw in to sweeten the deal. Oh well.
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Right, what the world needs, yet another arkanoid clone. Woohoo! So what are the unique selling points of this game, which will make it stand above the rest and grab your interest?
Well, it's pseudo isometric 3D! Three Dee! One extra dimension than the rest! Yay! ....except it's slow. And when I say slow, I mean pathetically slow. It's so slow that you have a hard time trying to guess where the ball will go to at first launch. Because of course it would be really hard to mimic a good feature of arkanoid that's actually an improvement over breakout, that is the ball launching from the bat instead of laying in the middle of the screen and going wherever it likes. Another problem with this is that due to the 2-and-a-bit dimensions sometimes it's really hard to predict where the ball is going. And then, the graphics suffer the "instead of drawing graphics from scratch, why not nick the amstrad ones and double the size? Nobody will really notice, and I'm sure everyone will appreciate the eye straining palette and choice of colours!". Well, *bzzzzzzt*!
The levels are in 3D too! Which means that there is height too, so when you hit a brick, the rest start falling down. That's a rather nice idea, makes the levels a bit more interesting.
There are weird enemies! And they come right at you, change the course of the ball, and if they touch you, you die instantly! And it makes them a torture!
The bat has missiles!
There are power ups! That don't seem to do much, maybe give you an extra life or missile.
No mouse control! That's the best idea yet! Why confuse the people with analog devices when we can use digital ones! And, to prove a point, the main menu is mouse controlled!
It could have been a cool game. But the frame rate really kills it, no matter what you throw in to sweeten the deal. Oh well.
auto047_001.png ( 6 KB | Downloads )