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[ShellShock Live v1.0+]

It's like a drug.

It's like a drug because it's addicting as hell. It may have its flaws here and there, and there might be assholes that play it badly to give it a bad rep, but the high makes it totally worth it.

The first couple of days I played this I was merely "Guest Phobotech." Being no stranger to turn-based war games like Worms Armageddon, I jumped right into this expansive trajectory based combat with delight.

Immediately I was reminded of a similar flash game already here on NG from '07, but the tanks were bigger, the map was smaller, you only had a basic shot, and NOBODY plays it any more on multiplayer. It was called "Artillery Live" and it's right there under the Games section of NG. To be honest, this game should take it's spot, because the players don't seem to be isolated to NG and it's obscure server like Artillery Live...this flash is connecting users from NG to all over the world.

I was playing people from Estonia. Norway. UK. A South Korean kid learning English. Usually when playing a flash game here, it's just your typical NG geographics, so lots of US, Canada, some in Mexico and UK. The players here were diverse, and after weeks of playing this, most of them were quite friendly and even conversational while we're battling.

...But with the good crowd, of course, comes the bad...and what I've walked away learning from my experience in this game is that usually Guests are trolls. It's a wonderful feature that each tank doesn't have health, but the damage you deal effects your team's score....so when you friendly fire or accidentally (or in some cases with the Guests, intentionally) blow yourself up, it's really just hurting your team. But it's unfair to the players who are trying to have a good game when the trolls insist on staying in the game just to sabotage you and uncreatively bash on our moms or call us faggots.

Luckily you can mute any player by clicking on their tank. Another excellent feature. But even if we ignore them, there are still some that deliberately go out of their way to team damage us. It's unfair to punish those who are new to the game and are doing it by accident, but for the trolls it would be really beneficial to have a kick function.

...Well...now that I say that out loud, I could see how that would play out. The enemy team probably won't vote to kick the troll because they're helping them win...but I think a fair game-master should have that ability. The one who starts the game could be managing it by kicking unruly players. They already have the ability to kick players in the lobby, and a SURPRISING amount of players quit the moment their team is being dominated anyway...leaving their teammates out to dry.

Though there's an unexpected advantage to being alone in a 3 person team. Instead of taking out the pilotless tank or having a crappy/badass AI take it's place, the game randomly selects a teammate to control the tank that was left behind, like a surrogate tank. It's brilliantly balanced, because these surrogate tanks can't pick up powerups that are dropped onto the battlefield, and the special shot that's armed is selected at random. A skilled player left alone on a 3v3 match now has the opportunity to BE the entire team, practicing with various shots, and in some cases, even I have proved this, can come back from losing and win, win, win. Scoring BIG-TIME in the XP department.

Gaining XP is so worth it. The reason I signed up is I was tired of being bombarded by all of these neat attacks, and wanted to be the one dishing out the hurt as I progressively improved in accuracy. Right now I'm level 10, and I just unlocked the AC-130 shot which is like a big and burlier airstrike. From what I've seen out in the battlefield, I haven't even scratched the surface yet.

The music is epic as hell, even though I'm convinced the Latin chorus is saying "Heavy Boots of Lead" because it's fitting; this game kicks ass. Despite the trolls, despite the simplified graphics, despite the Smiley Bomb having that overblown very pixelated look...this is a fun, balanced game.

I'll see you in battle.

[Robot Clashes]

Pretty damn good!

As far as these kind of strategy games go, one with a constant rate of output, where the challenge is to distribute your income properly, this is executed pretty decently. I like how everything looks, and the camera swivels around nicely; either showing us our base, or otherwise cutting straight to the frontlines of the action. It's thoroughly more stimulating than surveying a vast stretch of land as you send out your troops one at a time.

The robot voices were too quiet, or almost too distorted for me to make sense of what dialogue was being heard on the battlefield. The music was nice, and the sound effects were great! Though I would proof-read your stuff before sending it out there...there were a few instances of grammatical errors from our Commander as he debriefed us. Seeing as how they're robots, I would find someone to write robot-like dialogue for them...flawlessly structured, elegant, perhaps with a sophisticated vocabulary...or maybe this is a joke, as the alien stuck to his face might have fried an English circuit. :P just messin' with you

I liked the idea that it shifted from robots to squid-like aliens. I think I got all the way up to 4-1, so I can't confirm if there are any other enemy variants...if not, there totally should be, because this is an entertaining game, and good games could always use a little switching up. While I put up a decent fight, I eventually get my ass-kicked on 4-1...I'll return again and again until I defeat it.

My only problem, and I suppose this could be justified in the games story through faulty, imperfect AI in the soldiers, is once my troops get up to the gates, they have no sense of target priority. They'll be blasting away at the gate while taking basic-level fire to the face until dead, and there's no way I can go "Hey! Idiots! Take THAT guy out...or die, y'know why not. You're only a Captain with an Acid Gun in front of two of our best snipers, being killed by ONE of their grunts. Stupid stupid stupid!" lol

I would hope they would go after the greater threat before moving onto the immobile target.

Still, it was an addicting time-waster, and because I have yet to reach the very end, I'll come back to finish the job. Great work! Voted 5.

[Super Mario BP Oil Spill]

Challenging enough to keep me coming back for more

I played this off and on all through December and kept from writing a review until I beat the damn thing. IT FINALLY HAPPENED.

For starters, the concept alone is HILARIOUSLY dark...I love it enough from that alone. Thankfully, the team involved knew what they were doing, and the gameplay didn't disappoint.

It began smooth and easy, letting you get all comfy and acclimated to the controls and hazards one step at a time. While this might annoy A.D.D. morons who don't have the common patience to enjoy a game (example: "bawww by the third level we only get one diver? no! no! it's too late :'C" <--I bet gamers like this hate Tetris lol), it succeeds in gently establishing the hook before yanking the hook now attached to our jaw violently. By level 3-2 it's a maritime WARZONE...and by GOD I LOVE ME SOME MARITIME WAR- OORAH!

Seriously, there is no shortage of dangers in this game, and that makes it absolutely exhilarating. By going for the "Employee Mercy" achievement, you set yourself up for the greatest danger; a cluster of divers shooting waves of harpoons. Because they kinda follow your movements and don't precisely swim in a formation, you could potentially have to avoid a near endless stream of harpoons, influencing you to get lower and lower to avoid death until you have nowhere to run. Furthermore, they're ingeniously unpredictable; while trying to coax them into swimming beneath a predictable sinking mine, they can sometimes stray away from them from their own will seemingly. Not all the time, mercifully, but don't think I didn't notice when I didn't get my way :P

The mine's can kill you, the diver's harpoons, mines from above, submarine-launched Bullet-Bills...your ONLY AMMUNITION can potentially kill you if it's not dead enough, even time itself poses a very realistic hazard if the ceiling gets low enough.

The programmer also had the right idea to only allow fish to spawn in a safe zone...I only know this because I didn't hear any phantom "putunk's" (fish dying noise)...but the fact that the ever-growing oil slick is pitch black effectively emits a very ominous, subtle evil in the game. Alright! We plugged the hole!...next world! Well, that MASS of oil that's there because it wasn't plugged in time is still there...and sometimes the fish are STILL dying while my victory music plays...it's a brutally, viciously honest truth depicting what's actually going on in the Gulf...and that's of a Mario with gills and a resiliance to oil is stuffing numerous crude-oil leaking pores on the gulf's floor with oily fish carcasses.

Throwing dead fish turned out to be an incredibly necessary maneuver to keep from getting harpooned to death. I never really had a problem with the mines, but I died numerous deaths from the harpoons and SURPRISINGLY the slow-ass Bullet-Bills...though I guess they are still kinda huge menaces. I only wish one could have more of a directional influence as to WHERE you could throw the fish...too often would I want to hit something above me, but it only goes very slightly down. I adjusted, and learned to work with the fixed trajectory we have to throw with, but if we could aim up, that means we could have a shot at taking out one of those helicopters. This would be very badass.

But like I said in the very top of this review, the challenge kept me coming back. I would often die at 3-3 and sometimes 3-4. I had no idea the end was right around the corner until today, but I'm refreshed it keeps you going with the 4-X worlds. When I first played, I though five lives were a lot, but I was mistaken. I entered the 4th set of worlds with one extra life to spare, and I lost both chances at a mere 4-2. I have yet to see if Submarines are in this expanded realm. I suppose I'll have to keep playing to find out.

I still have REALLY hard medals to unlock too; this thing has a fuckton of replay value to it. For that, it's historical relevance, and the fact that it's straight-up fun and challenging, this should go into Flash Portal History of 2010. It's nostalgic with original gameplay somehow too! I love this! 5'd

[20 Seconds to DIE]

Ahh, the nostalgia!

This kinda of brings me back to what was especially popular around the time I signed up to NG. Since it's early years, interactive stick deaths were regularly uploaded through the Flash Portal, and with the popularity of Xiao Xiao, making the simple suckers move in extraordinary and brutal ways proved to be a very quick and fun way to satiate entertaining bloodshed.

It's good to see that the genre has come a long way since then. :)

Psycho was so detailed, and contained such REFRESHING dramatic camera angles that I began to wonder out loud why even bother keeping the characters as stick figures. The animator involved did a spectacular job. With stick flashes, it's all too common for the camera angle to either remain stationary or treat the movie like a 2D side-scroller; a terminal stage perspective with no diversity or environment to roll around...admittedly, that's simpler to maintain, but this flash threw that rule out the window! With over-the-shoulders, dramatic angles both from above and below both characters, it heightened the immersion intensely. Furthermore, the bloodsplats that remianed in air seemed very artistic, and the transition into the black figure's insanity ended the short with a fantastically brutal maneuver. Bravo!

Beard Ninja contained some stunningly powerful anime-inspired sword movements, with even more surprisingly brutal executions, like stabbing the torso from ABOVE the handle while the sword is already impaled in the victim's leg. The most interesting detail about this artist is how...CONVINCING the blood splatters off of the victim and falls to the ground. It just looks right somehow. Though the ending did get increasingly ridiculous with Beard Punches and Beard Sticky Bombs...it felt like an awesomely violent tale of what would happen if Milla Rage from Guilty Gear had a kid with Chuck Norris and that son became a grand master and kicked ass with a katana and manly man-beard. Still, as silly as it was, it was entertaining and I liked it.

Multiplication ended with Troll Physics in action. I laughed out loud :D, but what I especially liked about it is I always enjoy it when the victims put up a fight. It's just not honorable to see someone just take a beating and not even try to resist, in my perspective. The camera angles tried to tilt around to be immersive, but when it rotated the screen so wildly in the middle of when that guy's...balls(?) were getting ripped off, it seemed out of place.

Mining had your typical beat-down with an item, in this case a pick-axe, and it was decent. No details really stood out for me, except I liked how he kinda reacted to the torso hitting the deck after that climactic hit. It was more gratuitous and goofy than it was hardcore and brutal.

But the overblown gratuity and goofiness was multiplied from Mining as we got into Yoyo. The toy was doing impossible things...it looked good, but it made no sense how the round, stringed object could maintain grip, roll and bounch a fully grown man back, and Shoop Da Woop the poor guy into oblivion. The guy stood there and took all of this DBZing, and somehow the whole sequence just wasn't engaging like some of the others.

Lightning excelled with some very human reactions to the circumstances the befell him. Along with his overall body language I was impressed with the realistic hop and shakes as he realizes his ankle caught on fire. The wrath of God left a great taste in my mouth with his demise. Great job!

Exploders was hilarious! Where it lacked in perspective angles it made up for in body language. Though I thought it was odd the stub from his wounds were pinkish and floppy, I suppose it makes sense.

Beat Down though was more of a let down. Nothing extraordinary, and a pretty standard, less engaging brawl. It was my least fav because we've seen all of this before hundreds of times, some of which with much more impressive choreography without suspending disbelief. Granted, this one is probably the more realistic of all the shorts, but it didn't try anything new. No boundaries were pushed.

Overall, great job! 5'd

Stone-Steven responds:

I love to see reviews like this. Time was spent in these animations ( believe it or not! ) and it's great to see someone analyze it as for those who did the very same in creating it.

Thanks for the detailed review!

[SteamBirds: Survival]

A different experience every time. I LOVE THIS!!!

It is ALL about the NeverSlow-36D. I've unlocked every plane except for the absurdly priced blimp and the bottom green one's. The Dart-inspired 36D has all of the maneuverability and speed necessary to pull off some Super Ace worthy stunts every time.

The first Steambirds was an absolute favorite for me, and with this sequel, I'm pleased you can enter the battlefield specifically aware of what your plane is and what it's capable of. The wide array of planes could suit any yearning pilot's needs based off of their unique capabilities and readied power-ups. For the longest time before I found my love in the sky, NeverSlow-36D, I stuck with the Looper-P200. Though it looks a little goofy watching a boomerang-shaped flying wing twirl about in a dogfight...exactly like a boomerang...they were refreshingly lethal. Their guns being their primary strength.

Though there were others that didn't make sense...like the Jouster having a short-range...you would think a successful Jousting Knight would have an advantage with reach, not a lack-thereof. It could easily be outrun, outgunned...it was a dispicably poor choice for something you're supposed to survive in.

That's why I liked the 36D. It could SURVIVE. It had powerful guns, strong enough armor, and could outrun all of it's enemy's...flying loops around the hoarde, getting them to fly tight, to lead them in and drop bombs to clean the bulk of them out. It could sweep in and collect powerups, or dash up to newly-spawned enemy's to splash them before they could even turn around to see you.

I play this just about every day. If that's not a testament enough as to how awesome this game is, I don't know what else could convince you.

Once again, the soundtrack is extraordinarily arranged...though this time around, it's less epic, and more depressing. In fact, most of the messages that are accompanied with the "Next Wave" messages are more depressing than they are encouraging. The inspiring or messages of encouragement or reassurance that they're spending my time of sacrifice wisely would be overall received better if I had some music to kick ass too. I would prefer the epic soundtrack over the "Ooooohhhhh-oooooooohhhhhh" moaning track.

The only way I could see this game getting any better is if you could BUY competent wingmen to control as well. What if I had TWO 36-D's soaring around giving them hell? What if I could control what they're equipped with at the start?

I'm happy that the issue of airplanes drifting off forever out the edge of the screen has been remedied by AA gun turret emplacements. That was a good call. However, in my last review, remember how I suggested it would be beneficial if we could visually see the enemy aircraft's firing radius? JUST like the AA gun. Except it's when the mouse hovers over the enemy when it becomes visual...some of those larger planes have an incredible knack of chewing up my fighters, both fragile and heavy. Knowing to plot around their firing radius could extend my play time, as I would die significantly less...maybe...possibly....ehhh I dunno.

I hope you keep this series going. I'd love to hear voices in future incarnations, naval warfare, extended lore...I'm just eager to see what you'll do with it! I'll keep returning to try and out-do my scores each time...I hope one day to get a high enough score to compete with the all-timers for the 36D in time. :D

Voted 5! I finally had to break down and review this thing.

[One Chance]

Well, I guess I'm satisfied with my ending.

Though I stayed faithful to my wife, she killed herself tragically. I was conscientious enough to keep my daughter from witnessing her fate by my guidance. I opted to take her to work both times as the final days drew to a close. On the final day, I checked to see if there was an option to jump off the roof...it was there for me...but I went back to the lab, found a cure, and my end-screen is at the park with my daughter.

I wish there was more to interact with...more options available for our hero, and I wish there was a way to save my pixelated wife. But in the real world we only have one chance. So my pixelated wife is gone forever, but I think I would be happy to have kept a daughter to raise.

...This needs a sequel. A more complex, more interactive sequel that could really get down and define one's character. With the permanent end-screen, it attracts a unique gameplay experience for us. There are no continues in the real world, no extra lives...I'd like to dabble in more games like this. Games that don't fuck around. I voted 5, despite the depressing possibility that my pixel self and pixel daughter might be the last survivors on earth...that's not really made very clear...

Still, it's very artsy. Pretty deep. Make more!

[e7]

Creatively Refreshing, Original and entertaining!

The color schemes are tastefully chosen, and the all-around atmosphere of the planet is pretty damn amazing as far as flash games are concerned. The simplicity of everything's design is incredibly artistic and stimulating.

I love how our little droid character glides across the blob-like ground, and the sinking-trampoline jump works extraordinarily well. The enemy's in groups are challenging to take on, and I think my favorite moment was trying to destroy the drone in the parallel tunnel with wall-jumps...it was hard! But I liked it a lot, because that made it thrilling.

I just wish there were more enemy's than spikes, the two-armed sweepers, the drill coccoons, and the coincidentally dick-shaped melter...but I suppose any of the enemy's I had in mind would be too difficult to take out with trampoline jumps alone.

I love how one could indent themselves into the planet, then slightly sweep in a direction to launch themselves at an angle. A technique that could be mastered with time, and probably necessary to get back to the ship in the end.

The music compliments the immersion, and gives the overall gaming experience a mood of mystical wonderment...like we're there, experiencing this place with our avatar. It definitely makes it a REALLY cool experience. :D

I loved it, voted 5.

[The Snow Runs Red]

The Best Christmas-Themed Flash Game this year :D

I found a copy of Smash TV at a garage sale for $2 a while back. Granted, I don't even HAVE a Super NES anymore, but I know one of my distant goals is to get one of those "I can play NES/Super NES/Sega Genesis cartridges all in one" contraptions, so I figured it would be a nice little head start in rebuilding a collection of great games I loved and knew as a kid. Sadly, that Smash TV cartridge still sits...and it's waiting...it's been YEARS since I've played the then controversial top-down slaughter-fest.

But hey, it's all good, until then, I got this! :D

Though not quite the scale of Smash TV, it sure as hell reminds me a lot of it. The gameplay is thrillingly gory, violent, and refreshing. Nobody has the balls to admit that we all want to blow up children and wipe them off the face of the earth in the most hardcore way we can imagine. Coincidental or not, the first upgrade I picked up was the buzz-saw launcher, and a grin ripped across my face as the first shot of my projectile cut a bloody path to the other side of the stage.

The rocket launchers acted refreshingly quick...finally somebody that got it right! A rocket that ACTED like a rocket, streaking across the land like the mighty phallus of destruction it so righteously is, planting itself on some poor bastard with a satisfyingly detailed explosion sequence. The mine launcher works well in close proximity, but does little help when you need to rid the tree of it's pestering pecker-products!

One gathers money from destroying the beasts that killed Christmas, and with this newfound currency, you could upgrade your ammo capacity, upgrade your Christmas tree's lifespan, upgrade your chances of getting weapon powerups on the field, or upgrade your own health-bar. With each health upgrade, the effects are immediate, yet for the ammo capacity, it seems to only take effect after you've collected your next upgrade. The weapon-drop probability upgrade is immediate....I guess...kinda hard to tell since powerups in general are uncommon, so the logical course of action is to focus on your Christmas tree.

No tree, no powerups. No powerups, and you're stuck trying to fend off the hoards of teen pregnancy accidents with your default pea-shooter, which takes far too long. Plus it gives the kids something else to go after.

The challenge can start to escalate pretty quickly, but luckily Mrs. Claus is a badass. By only being able to aim at eight specific angles it necessitates a little movement in order to line up the shots just properly. This is made more difficult by the kid's random movement patterns, and only increased by exploding fatty chunks and kids sliding around on inner-tubes, who I swear to God are having so much fun I kinda feel bad for shooting them, because I don't think they're intentionally trying to ruin Christmas. :C

In addition to the previously mentioned powerups, there's a dual shot (two shots are always better than one) the Green...blob explosives, which are incredibly annoying to fire because of the sound it makes. The rapid-fire power-up which looks, sounds, and feels incredibly badass, but is truly useful with the maxed out ammo upgrade. Then there's the spread shot, which only seems to encourage the strategy of cornering yourself.

No kids ever wander into the corner, so by a long play-through, the blood-stains in the snow almost always form a splotchy red diamond. I feel it could benefit the game by having a type of kid that keeps you out of the corner...perhaps a projectile shooting kid to compliment the fatty's explosive barrages.

Additionally, it could only aid the game's replay value to switch up the stages with bigger arenas, or at least varying scenery, like a playground, a football field...stuff like that. 8-bit "Rockin' around the Christmas Tree" gets old by level twenty, it would at least be cool to get an alternate track for when there's no Christmas tree to go rockin' around.

My biggest problem was accidentally clicking outside of the screen. Perhaps a border just on the other side of the fence could remedy that common mistake.

5'd!

[Zombie Trailer Park]

Challenging Defense Game

Though really there's only one stage, the different levels are all focused around difficulty. I've met my match in Stage...err...Difficulty 3, though I know if I had the patience I could see it through. Seems that Difficulty 4 would really kick my ass, though, but it all seems to gravitate to enemy rush's having access to more advanced units way before you do.

The rate at which currency is produced is thicker than a backwoods swamp, and I find myself prioritizing Salvage Yards before advancing to the Farmhouse. Those sprinting spitters cut through shovel guys like nobody's business, and for a projectile character, our Farmboys are kinda underpowered. Sure, they mow through the normal zombies perfectly when grouped, but if it takes two Farmboys to advance through a steady stream of zombies with $400 ($200 each), it would be a better investment just to wait a bit and spend $500 on another Salvage Yard. Then you can pump out a greater rate of units, save if you have enough Trailer Parks...but in the harder difficulties you're so thoroughly swamped with early Hunters and Spitters that you have no choice but to kind of dangle by a thread with a weak stream of Shovels. By the time that Tank breaches through your underdeveloped army, you're sunk.

As you can tell, it's easy to get into the game. The music is nice, the graphics are nice, and although the character sprites are tiny as hell, it allows a much broader view of the battlefield...which looks good, mind you...I just have a problem with the same stage being called different stages. You could say, from the sky background, that it's indicative of different times of day. Okay, so if the "Easy" mode is storming over the bridge by morning. What do they do when they win? "Whoo Boy! That was fun! Yep, Clementine's family and forty others are dead, but we did it! Now let's go BACK over the bridge, TEAR DOWN everything we just built, and do it again...it's almost noon!"

...That's just stupid...I mean, they ARE trailer hicks, but come on. How about some varied scenery? THEN you can call them different stages. You got the bridge. Then you go into the city. From there? Who knows, get creative.

If it weren't for those Yeehaw abilities, I probably wouldn't have won at all with the sluggish rate of income, and even at some points, Trailer Park restrictions. It was an effective means of balancing out the steep and powerful output of incoming zombies. I had the biggest battle with the first stage as the zombies wheeled out a mighty catapult. It surprises me that the walking dead have an understanding of historical warfare and engineering...lol

But despite the balance issues in the ending half of Stages...err..."Difficulties", and the unclear rate of accumulating Yeehaw points, this was a really fun take on the Attack & Defend castle games. Being a fan of Left 4 Dead, Zombie films, and being a Texan that laughs at the expense of rednecks, I thoroughly enjoyed playing this. Because I have yet to win completely, I'll come back to it, so there's a plus for replayability.

The points off are for having to play the same stage over and over again, because it ruins the illusion of progression...it's just hundreds of trailer trash dying over this one bridge repeatedly, and they don't even get to keep their structures...so it makes little sense. I have no problem with the challenge, just so long as it's immersive.

Still Voted 5. I hope you're working on a sequel! :D

[Hostage Crisis!]

FUN!

I'd say you took the gun-fighting aspect that worked for games like old-school, over-head view Grand Theft Auto and drastically improved it. The destructible environments change everything in a system where using cover to your advantage isn't suggested, but highly necessary in order to survive. It's an overhead shooter that FEELS like a gun-fight.

Getting used to the Grenade's is tricky, though I feel like it could've been used with a greater sense of control...they roll in a very specific time-slot, sometimes bounce off the wall prematurely, then detonate reliably. I can get behind that it's a mechanic the player is supposed to adapt to, and learn to be at a certain distance before throwing it to get the desired results, but even for an option to "cook" the grenade, or pulling the pin and holding it so it can explode in a much closer range than usual, could be of strategical use, but I suppose that could be built upon in a sequel, where the grenades may have an even longer range; sometimes I had gunfights down corridors with soldiers I had no visuals on because they were so far away- (which impressed the hell out of me, bumping up the challenge. Think there'll be some sniper, or carbine enemies in a continuation? :P) But that was a situation where it could've been beneficial to blindly chuck a grenade down the hall at the risk of clipping civilians as well. If they group up down the hall, it's near-impenetrable...which brings me to the AI-

For a flash game, they seemed sort-of surprisingly smart...instead of lamely walking a predictable path, their movements were different each time, and sometimes they came to seek me out. Their grouping together seemed to be an accident, but if one could program the illusion of them communicating and organizing hunting parties to clear me out? I would shit my pants with excited excrement.

The bullets looked great...bouncing off at odd angles, and just ripping into foes, walls, and peripherals alike just felt awesome. Sound effects went well with them, too!

Those explosive charges, both remote and times, were badass, but sometimes I picked up a grenade on accident, and maybe I encountered a situation where I need more control. I kinda wished there was a way to swap out explosives without having to use the one I was holding. There's really no penalty against tossing a grenade into an empty room, I realize, but it would sort-of same time, and up the interactivity in the game.

I also kinda hoped that slow-mow-Modern-Warfare-2-breaching-b ullet time was explained better in the beginning. The very first time I used it, I planted a timed explosive, then sprinted all the way down the hall to pick up a grenade (in case I needed it) then *BOOM* "Slow-Mo!" ...and I sluggishly stop running. Turn around, and in slow-mo said "....Whaaaat? ...Ohhhhh keeewwwllll" and started slowly running back in my final moments of bullet-time. Again, it seems like there's a lack of control that could've been beneficial to have. Say, if you DIDN'T want bullet-time, you could do nothing, but if you did, you held down a button while the charge is building up to activate the adrenaline rush that is bullet time. Merely a suggestion, because every time it happened, I didn't feel like I was in control of it, when it seems like a system that would work best WHEN controlled.

But all in all, it was a very fun game. I had a "blast" playing it, and I truly wished it was longer, contained NG achievement medals, and maybe, MAYBE if the screen was bigger that could make the game better, but no biggie. This is a gem! A fun-run through, but also falls short in replayability...which is why I totally hope you're doing a sequel. I'll have a 5 vote waiting for it, too! :D