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The Daily Click ::. Downloads ::. Review Review: Unknown Game 4117
Just about every game I download has an installer these days. Are people trying to annoy me or something?  Well, I don't want to sound too high and mighty, of course,
so I'll just point it out again - don't distribute your game in an installer, it makes it very inconvenient to install (which is quite ironic, really.) With installer: Download ZIP. Extract ZIP in to temporary directory. Run installer, extract game in to other directory. Delete installer files, run game. Uninstall when finished. Without installer: Download ZIP, extract, play. Delete when finished. And I'm afraid that deleting is very much what's going to happen with this game... It opens with a loading screen. Of course, the game isn't really loading, it's just making you wait around for fifty seconds while it pretends to load so that it looks a little more like a professionally made Flash application. I know that I said I don't want to rip in to this, but using this feature is... well, stupid. The background is plain, and you're given a little animation with a flamethrower-wielding sprite, but it's better if you go and make a cup of tea or something as the game "loads" pointlessly. After all that, you finally get to the title screen. This features a blocky Mario sprite with a "cloak" pixellated on, hence the "Matrix" in the title. At least I think so, I can't excuse it otherwise. In the main game, I really can't find anything to justify the claim that this game has "Matrix moves" in it - you're Mario, with the aforementioned black cloak, and have to float around through a platform level. Well, I say "level" but all you have to do is walk forwards, whereupon you're pretty much instantly Game Overed. The reason for this is that you have to jump in to the squiggle known as a "piece of Matrix code". But you're given two seconds to read the on-screen instructions, by which time you're dead anyway. Think about the players, author! They're not going to know what to do at that stage. After that, there follows an apology about the scene being removed for the Beta version. Instead, you're treated to a sequence with a caricatured Agent Smith, which is by far the best looking thing in the whole game. Unfortunately the weapons were removed for the Beta as well, so all you can do is jump about uselessly for twenty seconds, whereupon you're dumped back in to Windows. Maybe, just maybe this could be a decent first game, but in its current state I have to say that it really wasn't worth uploading - you have to give the player more than this! Keep trying...
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