Nice game! The graphics and music are lovely.
Reviews for "GARE"
For the most part, this game is sublime.
The graphics are stellar: the glowey-blue wireframe look is fantastic, and happens to meet my tastes to a point.
The sound design is fantastic as well - glitchy, electronic and intense. It matches the graphics beautifully.
Gameplay is very solid, if not particularly groundbreaking. The speed and mechanics of combat and movement are firm as granite.
The music, however, is where the game falls flat. The music in the opening and menu screens is great, but ingame... it sounded like lounge slow jazz with an electronic beat. It simply didn't have enough power to drive the game like it should have, and it REALLY didn't match the sound and visual feel. Piano would be okay for something like this, but something more minor, less flowery. Really, you want something with a heavy electronic focus, and maybe light interaction with piano, choir, or orchestra.
If the music were swapped out, it would be my idea of a perfect multi-directional shooter. Overall, though, great work.
prexen responds:
Noted.
I cant hit it all :(, im sure tried ! and im not a composer (damn ). When you say jazz is kinda funny, cause i play the saxophone. You are right in every aspect.
Thank you for the feedback.
Im taking all you guys say into acc to improve the game (or even a GARE 2 ? ).
And im sure to try new things with the music.
A very nice game. Nice graphics, upgrades and so on. The only thing that could be upgraded is more musics in the missions.
prexen responds:
The only problem i have with the music is the 20meg file size cap. I wish i could add more of every thing the game. Music, sound, upgrades, missions... but due to limitations we must choose. If i could make a 50meg game you sure to have lots of diferent stuff in it.
This isn't that hard the first level does have a great deal of enemies but their gunfire is easily avoidable as long as you arn't caught in a tight corridor you should be fine for the first few levels the sound design is good and I'm fond of the artstyle
Oh it's a toughie. Darn u! Gr8 game.