Score: 7
"Nice version of tanks"
date: August 2, 2005
A nice version of tanks. I had a lot of fun playing this. It could still use a little bit more work at some places though. An option to have a game against 1,2 or 3 computers would be pretty cool. You could add an easy, medium and hard mode then. Some more weapons would also be cool. You could add some weapons like: A double bomb (both shots with less power then the normal bomb off course), a cluster bomb, a lazer/machine gun etc. Anyway, some explanation about some of the ratings:
Graphics: The blue background and the clouds looked pretty good. The clouds were moving in the direction the wind blows, I liked that. It's not that important, but it's just a nice extra little thing. The explosions also looked pretty good, the tanks didn't looked bad as well, I think there is not much wrong with the graphics. The only way to improve it is by adding some more details like trees, snow and stuff like that.
Sounds/music: Also not much wrong with the sounds and the music. The shooting and the explosion sounds were excellent. The music was not really what I would call "Great", but it suited the game pretty well I think. You should've added some different music for when somebody won though. When the game was over the same music just kept on playing, that was kinda boring.
Interactivity: The controls were not diffecult at all, just the arrowkeys, space and the mouse to use a special weapon. That's good. It also had a menuscreen, everything worked fine there. You only had to option to dissable wind, I think you should add a stage select there and maybe something to change the background music or to turn the sound on and off. During the game, I sometimes dug holes that were too deep and my tank disappeared at the bottom of the screen. I pressed teleport then, but it putted me back inside the hole. That was kinda weird, I hope you'll fix this. Some other thing that was kinda weird was that I could shoot with a power of over 2000. That was kinda unnecesarry, it took about one minute before the bomb finally hit the ground. You should make some kinda limit, 250 or something.
Overall I'd give this game 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. It was a nice version of tanks and I think it stands a chance to win an award, we'll see tomorrow. Anyway, like I said, it could still use some work at some places, but I enjoyed playing it. Well keep up the good work and good luck with any other future projects.
~Auz
Author's Response:
Hmm.. Iv'e never seen the bug you're describing.
Tell me, you said you were at the bottom of the screen, my speculation is that you fired a bomb, and the ground shaking caused your avatar to appear below the screen, do you think that that is what could've happened?