Skirmish

GRAPHICS: Awesome hand-drawn graphics. I would never have the patience to do something this complicated without pro version, and it is good even though its pixelly. Also, the explosions and other effects were good without using pariticles or other pro nonsense. However, the walking animation could have been better. It could also use a campaign mode, if you expanded the story some. *****/******

SOUND: Very good sound effects, and they fit nicely, but if there is music it needs to be turned UP. ****/******

GAMEPLAY: Truly amazing. This is definitely one of the best games on the site. Actually it could have been in the competition if you had it in a little sooner, but oh well, even tho it would have won. The AI for the NPCs was very nice, but it bugs me that the allys cant do everything u can. If they can drop med packs, throw grenades, and lay mines, they should also be able to call in air strikes. Same for the enemies. Also, it would have been nice as multiplayer -- have each player lead a side, and watch the chaos commence! You would have had to condense the controls a little though -- WASD Shift Ctrl Space for player one; UDLR Mouse for player two. ******/******

STORY: Very little story -- stays true to its COD roots, though. Not like it needed to, that game is bad enough as it is... ***/******

INTERFACE: Useable, but a little too spread out for me. Try this next time: left/right: move -- up/down: aim (its annoying that u cant shoot people on a hill at all) -- Z: shoot -- X: special -- C: reload -- Space: jump. ***/******

OVERALL: Oh my god, a perfect game. This should, like, win an award or something. I wish you would post the GMK file though -- a lot of the good games on this site r pro version, and i want to see how you did this with lite. I hope you dont mind when i use this as inspiration for a medieval version, though.

ChainMail Games
10/13/08