Devestation?

Devestation 7 Sheer Evil. is a game created by jamboy23

As I was on the forums, I came across a thread asking someone to review a game. Being bored and seeing no response, I quickly went to the aid of this person and I am now reviewing Devestation 7 Sheer Evil by jamboy23.

Pre-Thoughts

I have heard nothing about jamboy, so I can't say whether he is a good or a bad game maker. The thumb-nail tells me the games is organised a and has a possibility of being good. Hopefully the thumb-nail does not lie and this is a game to remember.

The Review

A decent game which I suppose is rather good. Well done jamboy23. The game starts off with you immediately getting a life. I wasn't really impressed with the start as you can just rush past the majority of enemies and if you fall you can pretty easily get back up and try again.

As soon as I ran into the portal and collected a blaster I went into complete darkness. I was then faced with an unseen foe, and as I was fighting it, I had thought to myself it would of been better if you hadn't been given the blaster at all. This would of meant I didn't have to just hold spacebar and standstill, but use my radar to find and then slaughter the enemy.

The game from here on was similar to the start. I have to kill some enemies and I can rush past others. Along the way I was also met with countless, unnecessary power-ups which constantly made the game easier and easier. By the time I'd beaten the game I was left with 3 lives, a mace, a ray gun, a blaster and a lot of ammo.

I can't really judge the scenery, as half the time I was plunged into darkness and the other half I was outside, but I suppose it wasn't that good, as I haven't seen much evidence of jamboy working on the scenery.

My favourite bit probably was the water section. You could rush past sharks, but this is at risk of losing health. So you must carefully either kill or navigate around the sharks in order to get past without the possibility of dying. My least favourite bit was the power up placement. Yet another game ruined by it. I was barraged with health, weapons and lived, the majority of which was not needed.

So overall, a decent game. It had effort put into it and was better than a lot of bad games out there, but was ruined slightly by the power ups.

Scores

Overall: 2.5/5

Final Thoughts

Jamboy is a game maker with great potential. My recommendations are take away power-ups, place enemies so you have to face them and add some scenery. Try playing some featured platformers and see if you can learn something from them.