ChromeShark's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Overkill: Apache]

Incredible

The best game of its type I've played since Raiden X. The graphics are very good, at firsty they didn't blow me away, but when everything started happening all at once it looked awesome. Easy to play, but challenging at the same time.

One little improvement might be better enemy AI. For example the tanks always fired in one direction, maybe they could at least try and aim at you.

But this is pretty much perfect all round, I reckon it'll do well. Nice work. 10/10

pixelhugger responds:

Better AI is certainly on the wishlist - but I had to draw the line somewhere! I'll save it for version 2.0 :)

[bunny ZAP !]

Utterly Incredible

I have to hand it to you - this is the most original game I've ever seen on Newgrounds. It's the first webcam game I've seen here, I didn't think it was possible! How does it work?1 Does it detect colour change or something? I'm stunned.

The game was well produced too. Nice graphics (me in the background guarantees a 10) and funny sound. I played for ages just waving about like mad. I think it's be better if you had to NOT hit some things, so then you'd need to more precise in your movements. Maybe a setup test thing before the game to get the webcam positioned correctly would help.

Really though, I'm very impressed. I hope to see more. Despite the low score I think this should get Front Page. 10/10.

neuroproductions responds:

thanks :D
how does it works?
with the new bitmapdata class(since flash 8). Infact Its much easier than it looks
In short: you take virtual screenshots of your video object, than you compare the color value of some pixels with the pixels of the prev sceenshot. for more info, press F1 in flash>bitmap data :)

[Cena Quiz]

Small target audience

This doesn't interest me at all, I'm not sure I've heard of the guy. There's probably only a handful of people here that would like this, which'll probably result in it getting a lower score than it deserves.

It was actually a well made quiz. All very clear and user friendly. Its good that you didn't use the terrible quiz method that most people use where you go back to the start if you get a question wrong.

I got 37%ish. Hope it survivies.

IPIN-ANIMATIONS responds:

Thanks man

[BugZapper]

Nice idea

I like the idea here, it was quite fun to play. But the the graphics were very weak, you really need to put more time into them to gte a decent score. The gameplay could do with a bit more variation, and towards the end it became impossible to keep away from the zapper. But overall, not too bad.

Fion responds:

Yeah now that I've seen that people actually like it I'm thinking I might have a go at making a better more improved one, after all this is quite old.

[Territory WAR]

"Sure wish we had some grenades"

Very good, been a waiting for a decent Worms clone to hit Newgrounds. I played the whole thing through, all 11 missions. Bit easy, I only lost once because of a bug and completed L10 with all 6 characters alive. Loved how you could name the characters, I went for the crew of Serenity, with Jayne kicking the most ass.

The best thing here was probably the arenas. Good variety, the characters interacted with them well, and they looked good. I kind of wish you hadn't used sticks, they just look so tacky, it wouldn't have taken too long to make some better looking characters (maybe even with a customization mode, other than just choosing a hat).

It played mostly smoothly. I hit one bug when an enemy threw a grenade upwards into a platform, it sort of stuck spinning and I had to restart. You could avoid this by adding a timeout to the grenades so they blow if they remain static for too long.

Sound gets a 6 because although I can't really complain about the music (not my taste, but at least there was an off button), the SFX were a bit weak. The bodies didn't make much sound when bouncing around. And you should add speech Hogs of War style, just some funny lines that the characters say after attacking.

In a way this reminds me of Kitty Cannon style games, because the majority of the game was just about throwing grenades well. Shooting and booting just felt like extras. Its probably already been said loads but this majorly needs more weapons. I can think of at least 20 that would work great, and most of those really wouldn't take too long to script. If you do make a sequel, it'd also be cool to add vehicles like tanks.

Another thing that would make this that little bit better would be destuctable scenery. I know how hard it is to make, I wouldn't have a clue where to start, but it is possible as games like Serious Santa prove. If you could find out how to do it it'd make the game so much better.

As it is this is a great game, I had loads of fun playing it. But there still feels like loads of room for improvement. I really hope you make a sequel because with a lot of work it could be the best thing to hit ever Newgrounds.

I think you've just got my record for my longest review ever ^_^. Great work, 5/5.

Afro-Ninja responds:

Heh, thanks for the response. The grenades should have a timeout now, not sure why they did that :(

I learned how to do destructible scenery about half-way through making the game, so if I do a sequel that will be up there on the list.

[Classic Rock Quiz 5!]

Fun for a bit

I enjoyed this a bit, the questions were challegning unlike most of the quizzes submitted.

I don't like the way it starts over when you get one wrong. I'd prefer a total at the end and a rating.

I only got to 5 before I got bored but if you don't you should have some 'name that song' questions, or picture questions. Those would liven it up a bit.

Pretty good effort, 7/10.

KyleDaFox responds:

yes, i tried very hard:) 7/10 isn't bad! thankx!

[Reach the Sky]

Good game

Graphics were as good as they come. Awesome monkey. Sound was pretty fitting.

I enjoyed playing this a lot, I scored about 35,000 after a few tried. I think it could do with a little more, its a bit too hard to time the jumps. Maybe some left and right movement?

But as it is this is perfect time-wasting NG material. Great work.

io3creations responds:

I intended this game as a simple game. Due to requests, there will be a more detailed game some time in the future. I'm glad you liked it :)

[The Kite]

Great little game

I can give you a nice review now I know that your work is genuine :)

I really liked this game, it was great in it's simplicity. The graphics were perfect, I love your style. I think this wouldn't be as fun if you added much more to it like powerups, but there are some possible improvements. Maybe it could get faster over time? Otherwise it's possible to go on for ever which is something to avoid in a game.

The SFX are quite nice, but I think a bit more music would work well here. I know it would add to the file size, but something light could keep this under 500kb. I just think it would help the overall experience.

Other than those small things this is very good, perfect NG material, hope it gets Front Page! Keep submitting stuff ;)

Mateusz-Skutnik responds:

maybe you didn't notice that, but it gets faster over time, enemies are speeding up every second - its a quite slow progress, you can hardly notice that, but they are speeding up. It's impossible to go on forever.
More music - I'll keep that in my mind when creating new games, however all the stuff I'm posting here was already done months ago, and if I'd start improving them right now I wouldn't have time to create new stuff - such as submachine2, which as I know a lot of people are waiting for impatiently. ;)
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[Gun Tutorial]

Useful

A tutorial that I might actually use, that's something rare. This is exactly what all tutorials should be like- clear, detailed and about something original. Great work and thanks.

scrimpy responds:

Thank you for the review

[Ball Revamped 4]

Excellent

Metaphysik was one of the first NG games I played. This was a great improvement and should get a lot of awards.

The new features were great, loved how you could smash stuff up. Graphically it was much better.

Sound was good but I knocked 2 off cause I couldnt find how to turn it off. Pause menu? What pause menu?

I knocked 1 of Interactivity because on level 8 I went through the wall and had to restart. Bugs aren't good!

But other than those minor complaints, this is a fanstastic game, very good work and good luck with it.

jmtb02 responds:

Pause menu is accessed with pressing P, but I am glad that you liked it so much! Thanks for the review.

-jmtb02