Review of The Hilarity Of Murder

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MT

The Hilarity Of Murder Review
By MT Moderator on 08 November 2009


Pros: good gameplay, nice music

Cons: The enemies can walk through buildings, higher weapons seem less powerful than lower ones

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gfx-
The graphics are really nice. Not because they're particularly detailed or anything, but they all fit together nicely and the use of fake-3d is really great

sound-
I really like the music, there's some nice sounds in there as well, like the explosion sound. None seem out of place

gameplay-
My major gripe is that the arena is very small. You have to constantly just run in circles, shooting. Also, the enemies can move through the pyramid buildings, which is pretty annoying. Other than that its pretty good. There's some nice variety in the enemies, the Amusement/health system is pretty good and the XP system is great too. The use of multiple weapons was a good way to keep me entertained.

A bigger arena, perhaps a more expansive city with other types of buildings (like a turret which you can man but it takes amusement and can only be used for short periods etc) would be great too.

My other complaint is that weapons 3 + 4 take so long to reload that they're actually weaker than weapon 2, so thats the one i stuck with

story-
lol-worthy. Short, simple and funny, it was good, and meant you could jump into the game quickly

Interface-
There's the nice engine, fairly responsive controls (trying to hit 'q' while shooting and moving was murder (pun intended). Perhaps MMB as well as q (for people who have mice with Middle Mouse Buttons) and small touches such as the screen shake on destroying an enemy.

Overall- Overall very nice little arcade game.

~MT
P.S Why was it made in lite? Did you make it at school?

  1. NAL

    NAL Moderator said over 2 years ago

    I made it while waiting for Softwrap to send a reactivation of GM7 to me - my PC had crashed and I'd hit the activation limit.

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