Thursday, February 21, 2008

Ninja Turtles Fighting Game, MART590E Game 5

This game was pretty fun but it was an obvious Street Fighter clone in TNMT costume. The game was not balanced as far as characters go, but any character could still win if you could find there "broken" move. "Broken" moves are moves that are overpowered and doing it over and over can result in little talent to win easily. Most fighting games has a character with this ability, but it seemed every character in this game had one. Also I felt tosses did too much dmg, and were too random.

I played a couple of rounds of this game against different people in the "Kings of teh Internet" group while we were "researching". In the end we decided that this game was a nice look for a game and was very fun but simple, everything we hoped our game to be. We just hope to make it more updated with internet character costumes on it. We even pitched a joke idea to make it work on the SNES. This game was awesome and I'd recommend it to anyone.

MART590E Game 4, The Zoo Race

After reading my friend's blog about a game known as "The Zoo Race" I decided that I too must try it. From what he said there was a pig with a hat in it, it had me at Hello. The game overall really scared me in a way I hadn't been for years. Not because it was scary, but because the voice of God was just spooky and controlling. He never told you if you were going the wrong way, guess that is one of God's traits. Ok, I broke my PC for this post so let me try to be a good boy. The game itself was very laggy and I never knew what position I was in or where the other animals I was try to beat was. I always got lost in stages that make little sense, but I did enjoy breaking the stain-glass pictures of God while doing so. I played it about 3-4 times before deciding that the lag out way the coolness of running around as a pig with a hat on it's head.

An extra note is that this should of been the game I did last week but had to take my mom to the hospital so I put school and life on hold for a bit to take care of her.

Monday, February 11, 2008

MART 590E Game #3 Tecmo Baseball

So, I decided t do Tecmo Baseball for the NES as my special game of the week. I enjoyed there Tecmo Bowl and hoped that they could do something similar for Baseball. Unfornuately they did not. I meet a baseball game who's only advantage over the first baseball for the NES was moving your players and slightly better graphics, but in the end I think that these advantages did not make it a better game.

The main problem with the game is there was no way to tell where the ball was going to land, this often ended upith making bad fielding decisions and overall making it hard to win. I played through a game, taking about 15 minutes for all 9 innings, but I felt cheated by the ball always seeming just out of reach. I just couldn't ever geta grip on the controls either and never could advance bases properly, making it harder to score the runs I wasn't scoring. I cant' come up with any whity remarks for this game, it was just aother NES baseball game and it was good for te time but far fro what you expect from a bseball game today. This is Darton signing off til the next game.