Reviews for The Outlaw

[Fheyd]

It was alright.

This flash had the makings of a good arcade style shooter. There are a few major things I would like to see improved before the final release, though. Keep in mind that I know this is only the beta. My criticisms are meant to help the final release be the awesome shooter it could be. :)

Number one thing that annoyed me was the voices. The things that they said were good, however, the sound quality was bad. I realize that you're were probably doing the best you could with what you had, but I am just being honest here. Also, I would reduce the frequency at which these phrases are heard. They are good, don't get me wrong, but they get stale very quickly when I hear them with the appearance of every new enemy.

Second thing I'd like to see changed is the character models. The ones that you currently have are good. Keep them. But try to spice things up a bit with some new ones too. Variety is your friend. ^_^

I thought the music through the game was good, but the menu music needs a lot of work. I, honestly, just don't like it.

Other minor changes I would like to see would be a reload time (you are using a six shooter after all), better hit detection, and, maybe, a penalty for dying (like restarting at a checkpoint).

But, despite my criticisms, this was a good game. I had fun. ^_^ OH! Also, I would like to see the steampunk theme incorporated more into the background of the levels. I noticed the cyborg arms on the baddies and the metal siding on some of the buildings, but there was nothing that popped and made me feel as if I were in a steampunk setting. Anyway, good game, needs work, though.

[Shyheart]

A good start but some fine tuning is needed

I'm going pretty easy on this since as you said, it's a beta, but there are several things which could make this game way better.

To start, a tiny bit more instruction. I didn't realize that the gun thing on the bottom right was a health bar until it was too late. Another thing that's related to this is that the animations for the enemies shooting and them getting shot are similar, so alot of times I will get confused as to whether I killed them or not.

A couple more things: increase the difficulty and/or complexity. It was way to simple and easy to beat and simple things could've helped that alot. For instance, more variety of enemies or alternately objects which you are not supposed to shoot, such as civilians or such. Adding in small things like health packs to shoot or extra weapons (such as an automatic weapon and a shotgun, for instance).

All in all, it's obviously not done yet so I'm hoping for an improvement by the time it is, but as for now it was a decent little time waster. I'm going to vote 3/5 on this because there is some potential here.

[LegionFire]

Stale, poorly scripted

Good old rail shooter style concept. The action is buggy though, many times I'd try to shoot an enemy and see no effect while I lose HP. Refine it if you plan on submitting a decent version.

[schoolmike]

This game ok.

It did not had enough action in it. It was kind of easy for me but overall I will give this game a 4.