CHRIS:
I'm afraid I'm going to have to be a little blunt here and say that I didn't really enjoy this. At heart it's a very simplistic "Smash-TV" style game, but your character only has one weapon - a flamethrower - and there are only snowmen for enemies, which follow you around as if they were attached to you by a piece of string. The main menu is quite unintuitive and cluttered, with drop-boxes and buttons everywhere. The game had a couple of nice touches - every so often an avalanche would arrive, with a cheesy cry of "avalanche!" but the warning often comes too late, especially if you are positioned near the top of the screen. It would have been nice, perhaps, to have the screen shake before the avalanche arrived. I also liked the way the snow could be melted with the flamethrower - a nice touch but mostly pointless, although vital for clearing through the avalanche. The introductory graphics were not bad, but the ingame graphics were not brilliant at all. Overall, this game needed several additions for me to score it higher. More weapons and a variety of snowmen, with different actions, for example, would have been brilliant. Just little things, really. Even the high scoring system isn't enough to entice me back to have just one more go, which is a shame, because I see potential here.
ASSAULT ANDY:
Hilarious intro. I laughed.
There are some great graphics which are mixed with 'average' graphics.
Sound recordings in the intro are a nice touch for this 'style' of game.
The buttons and gradient counter make me cringe.
The help screen is awful... just a wall of unaligned text.
The game itself wasn't that much fun for me. I found it completely unobvious how to shoot. I was clicking and I didn't realise you had to hold it down. I had to read the code to work out that I had to hold the mouse button down - it wasn't in the help.
Not very Christmassy - snow, music, snowmen?
Code is a mess.
Story mode is boring/easy/uneventful
