Reviews for Border Services

[scoobed99]

good story, bad game

I'll give you a 5 for the story line in the author comments. I was excited after reading that prior to playing the game, then was let down to see that the game is a very simplified tilty driving game. In fact for the whole game you barely have to worry about the tilt of the truck, to complete the game just simply hold the up arrow for less than 5 minutes. The with story line of driving through the desert and mexican bandits I was expecting something much more involved. Like participating in a shoot out with the bandits or police or something fun. All you do is drive the car over boring terrain with mexican bobble heads in the back. Good, interesting, appealing story line, just a shame the game play is unoriginal and boring. You could make a much better game with this idea!!!!

[youngy0101]

Good game idea!

Good game idea but as the past comments say you could expand on the game, maybe instead of the people in the back being stuck, should make it where they can actually fall out the back of the truck?

[GungaD]

Could Have Been More

I was expecting a game that would either make a much stronger statement on the immigration issue, and have more unque gameplay as a result. Instead, it's a pretty standard off-road game that offers little challenge. What woud really make this game good is to offer several modes of play: to be a "coyote" with good intentions, to be a criminal smuggler, or to be a border patrol agent. Let the player decide what they want to do. They would have fun and gain some insight into themselves at the same time. That's not too much to ask of a flash game on NG, is it?

[Lancelot317]

Definitely Has Potential..

I find it interesting that you can always go to newgrounds to see talented animators and game designers and rely on them to make some kind of commentary on relevant political issues... and when I saw this I was really curious to see what you'd bring to the table..

I gave you 4/10 because I like that the cops don't get killed (that would have been an instant 0) and because the only people that do are actual bad guys.. now you posed a few questions:

1) What do you think of the idea? It's good, not particularly clever or original, but it's relevant and has potential to go in a good direction.

2) Would you play it again? No. It's fairly fun but it doesn't really have replay value.

3) Graphics? Gameplay? I like the graphics, you did a good job! The overall animation is pretty solid, man. The gameplay is about what I'd expect from a balance-styled game.

[greenjordan10]

decent

I actually really like the idea, I find myself playing these truck games all the time, and the fact of even just piling a bunch of mexicans in the back is great, it'd be cool if you had to try not to have any of them fall out of the back.
I don't think i'll be playing it again though, it was a good idea, but the physics in the game weren't great and i find i don't really enjoy these games when they feel so rigid and clunky.
The graphics were decent enough, they don't really need to be great i find in a game like this, i found it fun running over the random people but they kind of looked crumby. Levels seemed a little repetitive in areas as well.