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Warkanoid 2
Break the blocks and your imagination limits with this challenging game! Destroy all the bricks on the screen by hitting them with a bouncing ball and catching funny power-ups. The eye-popping graphics of wildlife-themed levels and superb gameplay will give you hours of enjoyment.
The game is good if you are a fan of breakout games. Wildlife style bricks, powerups and paddle. The game is good to play with good sound and moderate graphics.
Playing would have been a bit better and easier if they had allowed for increasing the speed of the paddle.
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The game may look decent on screenshots, but the execution is flawed in almost every aspect: the backgrounds are low-resolution, the textures are bland, the music is midi-styled and the anti-aliasing is jagged.
The "physics" simulation is not up to snuff, and while this is apparent when briskly try to angle your shot: you get a elliptical curve-ball with a mind of its own. Furthermore, collision detection between multi-balls is completely off, as the point of impact seems to be "guessed" and not really detected.
Also problematic is the use of power-up visual language. You've got to put two and two together, and realize that your paddle was meant to be a LOG, and that the AXE will shrink your paddle, and the GROWING VINE animation will expand it.
As a show of compassion and curiosity, I went to see what Warkanoid 3 looks like, and while it is a step up from 2, it still does not manage to be on par with Break Out games of the last decade. (in this one, the happy birthday cupcake expands your paddle, and the saw shrinks it).
Warkanoid 2 was certainly intent to be a launch platforms for many themes to come, as the opening menu is this mock-futuristic interface that lets you select the theme "Wildlife" from a list of... 1 theme.
Needs a LOT more effort.
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