Score: 6
"A mixed bag."
date: July 20, 2009
Another collab, another set of reviews...
Ye Olde Smash!
What can I say? It's another Smash game, which is always good. The old movie film filter over the top of proceedings was a little annoying, but other than that it was another solid Smash entry, with ridiculous characters and jokes, and some great questions. the fact that two thirds of the screen was taken up by superfluous rubbish was bad though, should have just had the game first and foremost.
Monochrome
Well this is a more basic version of the full game, witha ll the problems the original had in regards to enemies dissapearing off the side of the screen and getting you from behind. Much more frantic fast paced version, with powerups now being randomly dropped by enemies. Is one of those games without an end though, and you just keep going for the highest score possible.
Hostile Assault
Quite an annoying game, with the enemies seemingly spewing the same two lines of dialogue in a bizarre Arnie like impression every two seconds. The fact that for the first 5 enemies they run to the exact same spot and follow the exact same routine of: get shot, fall, throw grenade is also very poor. Having the enemies at least be randomly popping up all over the screen from the start would be a lot better than that, which quickly grew boring.
Life of a Detective
easily the worst game in the collab. It looks like it was thrown together in about 2 minutes. th background doesn't even loop correctly and is thus jerky as hell, really making it difficult to see properly when travelling at high speed. The gameplay itself is pretty uninspired too. Pick these up, avoid these. And for some reason I still "failed" after picking up 50 money bags? Poor.
Fire Ballers
Another poor game. It at least has more polish on it than the detective game, but the gameplay is just as boring and trite. And makes no sense. Why are we trying to catch fireballs? Maybe if they were supposed to be something else like cargo falling out or something, but fireballs? And why make it about fireballs in a medium where your game is going to be presented in black and white? The game was ridiculously easy, involving nothing more than moving your mouse left and right. I grew bored at level 11 long before I had even lost a life.
Overall, this isn't a great collection, with only Ye Olde Smash and Monochrome realizing the full potential of the format and making enjoyable games out of them.
