Friday 22 July 2011

Game Review: Red & Green

Red & Green is a simple physics projectile launching game made by Anton Antsiferov (programming) and Tevsik (art).

It's a Red & Green world

It's nothing new, but that doesn't stop it being lots of fun! Simply mouse click to fire the little cannon, shooting strange little cotton wool balls at the objects to move them. (Mrs Ferrét absolutely adored the noise the cannon makes!). You must feed the red sweetie to the little red person, and the green to the green; this makes them enormously fat and extremely happy. And it makes you happy too, because it makes you win!

The graphics are great - not stylish but, you know, right for the game. They are very clear and colorful.  The music is a bit annoying, but hey presto there is a mute button at the top, clearly displayed! When you play this game you know what to do, and you do it, and it makes you think a bit - perfecto!

Play Red & Green

Monday 4 July 2011

Game Review: Top Defense

Game intro

Top Defense is a tower defense-type game by Alexander Porechnov. He spent a year working on the game and it appears to have been time well spent!

You are the captain of a space station and must prevent your enemy from capturing deadly missile silos on the planet below. This you do by firing cannon, missiles, nukes, and other lovely things, at the enemy's vehicles.

Play screen

This we found to be tremendous fun! The graphics and design of the game are very enticing, and the sound is great - the explosions are exciting, the music plays only on the between-play screens, and is fine. The game is not too hard to play (you can select normal or hard difficulty though), but is satisfying, and upgrades are readily available. Optional hints are available and easy to follow. There is a walkthrough, cunningly disguised as a 'Strategy Guide'... : )

Most of all we like it cos you get to blow stuff up!

(Mrs Ferrét nuking everything unnecessarily)

Play Top Defense