Recenzii recente de WarriorDan

First off, as a disclaimer: I did back this game on IndieGoGo, even though the campaign was ultimately unsuccessful.

I love car shooting games. I've grown up on classic 90s games like Mario Kart 64, for the N64, and Twisted Metal, for PS1. With that in mind, "Diesel Guns" is arguably the best modern spiritual successor to these types of retro games thus far.

The gameplay is very fun. I love the combat system, everything from the powerups, each of which are fun and cool, to the controls, which are very well implemented. I had no trouble quickly learning the controls.

The AI bots seen ingame, when you set up your own matches, are pretty decent, although they do seem to have the attention span of an ADHD child, often losing interest in who they are attacking, or even will remain passive when they themselves are under attack.

Before I list the good and bad aspects of this game, I do have to report a rather HUGE problem/bug with this game:
The player cannot create their own username, instead it just uses the full name of the computer the player is using, which is compromising information that puts all players at risk, if the wrong person sees that info and decides to hack that PC. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED ASAP, PLEASE!

That said, here are the good and bad aspects to this game:

Good
-Fantastic visual style, walking the fine line between realism and cartoony
-Great map design
-Well-animated vehicle models and combat animations
-Easy-to-learn controls
-Great sound effects

Bad
-Matches are too long by default. Given the fast-paced combat style, the match length should be considerably-shortened, say to something like 4-5 minutes max
-Few playable maps and playable modes
-Only partial controller support, not full controller support
-Poorly-designed main menu. No game title or game art on the main menu
-No in-game soundtrack

Overall This game is good, but could have benefited more from a longer development period, prior to launching on Steam. It has the feeling of being rushed.

Disclaimer: I was given a free Steam key of this game via Keymailer for review purposes. I will feature my video on Zombie City Defense 2 below, but here are, in short, my thoughts:

Positives:

-Unique blend of RTS and tower defense gameplay mechanics
-Beautiful top-down style
-Challenging gameplay, with a strong focus on strategic combat and resource gathering.

Negatives:
-Repetative missions (or levels) with not enough variety.
-All in-game units, friendly and enemies alike, appear as small dots,
making it difficult, at moments, to give your unit orders when they are being surrounded by enemies,
as you'll often be accidentally clicking on the enemy units instead of your own.

Overall: It's a worthy game, although its most glaring drawback is that, at many points,
the game seems unsure whether it wants to be an RTS, or a tower defense game.
The mesh of the two genres, while creative, can at times feel forced and clunky.

Recommendations to the developer:
-Make it easier to instantly assume control of friendly units via an on-screen option or key command, instead of having players rely exclusively on the mouse to find and click on units.
-Add different types of missions, with different strategies. For example, it'd be cool to see more "escort" type missions, where you have to escort your general from one base to another safer base, and use your units to scout ahead and elimate threats from behind and in front. This is just a suggestion, to change things up, nothing more.

You can find my full thoughts in my game review video below:
https://youtu.be/S_-cLiLdN6k

Starting off, I don't encourage hate on developers, so keep in mind this is critical feedback, not hate:

I was given The Fallen Sun to review back when it first launched, and played through the entire campaign as well as the small minigames on the side.

I'll sum up my thoughts below:

The Good

-Interesting story concept, which is never properly executed


The Bad
-Outdated visual graphics
-Horrible performance
-A host of optimization problems
-Poor sound quality
-Restrictive, linear level design
-Lazy weapon design, lack of proper ammo placement

The Awful
-Voice acting so bad that it makes me start to miss "Rambo: The Videogame"
-Forced jumpscares that aren't even scary
-Irratating story that gives up abruptly, as if the developer themself knew what a bad product they made, and just gave up.

Overall Opinion
To quote the in-game character: "Dear God, what happened here?!"

1/10

Very fun FPS that really manages to capture the "wild west" feel. Would definitely love to see a Source 2-built port/sequel in the future!

Disclaimer: I privately recieved a review key for the intentions of critiquing this game, and hence did not have to buy the game myself.

Video Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTMe737hj4

There's a few aspects of the game that are enjoyable, but are just outnumbered by the number of things wrong with the game, things that I highly doubt an extended period of Early Access will fix:

Positives:
-Good sound effects & music
-Unique, interesting art style
-The game's overall light, casual tone

Negatives:
-Intrusive, downright lazy attempts at storytelling
-Unpolished, half-hearted attempts at introducing RPG elements
-Repetitive gameplay
-No replay value

Overall Grade:
3/10

Hero Defense - Haunted Island manages to draw the fine line with humor that can only be described as somewhere between cliche and sardonic, with while introducing a wonderfully-streamlined combat system that makes the entire experience welcoming to learn, but difficult to master.

While not perfect, this game has a lot going for it, and assuming the developers continue to listen to their consumerbase and tweak the game a bit more, I could see this eventually turning into something truly great.

Heroes Defense: Haunted Island stands as one of the best tower defense strategy game I've ever played. Really brings back memories of my childhood, playing tower defense games from my then-new Windows 95. Nicely done, Happy Tuesday. You've earned yourself one more happy customer! Kudos.

https://youtu.be/6v0p77RuBrs

Great game-making engine for beginners. From the perspective of someone who's personally used Unreal Engine, GameGuru's so easy to learn, it's confusing!

Great, fun gameplay. The turn-based combat system, dependent on stradegy and statistics, combined with detailed character customization and other engaging features, it was easily the best stradegy game I played this past year!
(Creating characters modeled after myself and my friends, than watching in agony as they, sure enough, die right in front of you only a few battles later. XD.)

8/10, hands-down worthwhile purchase!

Original review video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chtMEEa9FX8

Fun game. Has its ups and downs. The controls are overall broken, but the gameplay, from what I can play of it, with the horribly-ported mobile-to-PC controls getting in the way, is really quite fun. It's been awhile since I've played a good, solid tower defense game. However, Spartans vs. Zombies Defense isn't it. But at least it did bring back some nolstalgia on my part towards the genre as a whole.

Original game review video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNTAYVZe3k&list=PLd5wi0iZeaznMSw9fI2QQlxQCaU99K5-c

Pretty good game overall, had a lot of problems at launch, when it first left early access and I got a chance to review it. I don't like how the publisher is gradually raising the price of the game without any explanation. When I first got a review code, the store price was $8.99. (No sale, either! Stock price.) Now it's $14.99? Something weird is going on here. Good game, but suspicious, possibly greedy tactics by the publisher.

Game review video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eRs4Y6MG7E&list=PLd5wi0iZeaznMSw9fI2QQlxQCaU99K5-c