Compdude's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bend Over Bin Laden]

Fun but quickly boring.

This is a fun game, but it gets old quickly. The controls are well-done, the military tank style is fun, and blowing up OBL is sheer glee... for the first 30 seconds. After you see all three or four of his movements, and learn the timing to blow him up, it gets really stale after that. I played until I got 37 kills, and then just quit. If there was a finite ending to this game, aside from letting him escape 10 times, it didn't seem to be in sight. This is the basis for a fun game, but it needs more variety and an ending.

[Bad Dudes vs. Bin Laden]

Decent work, Tom!

Cool little game you made, Tom! A good quick fix to beat the snot out of OBL that runs without any hitches, and also conveys a good message. It's OBL we should be mad at, not his entire faith. To persecute the entire Muslum religion, we would be no better than OBL's crusade against Americans and Jews. Let's just nab that sucker and his jihad bastards. ^_^
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But getting back to the game, it's really too short a run to be anything superb. It's fun and all, but it's certainly not top-10 material. So why's it up there? Partly because national vengeance is high and fresh, but mostly because you're the PREZ of Newgrounds, and you have quite a brown-nosing public that automatically considers your work supreme and untouchable regardless of content. I think that's being a bit TOO fanatic, even though you did create this godly website.
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Don't get me wrong, you have a fine game here, and I really enjoyed it. I just think the collective butt-kissing and national anger is rating this a bit higher than it deserves. Diordely is top-10 material. This is just a little snippet between your greater creations. Keep up the good work, Tom!

[The Schwarzenegger Dance]

Meh...

This is one of the top-voted / top-viewed submissions of all time? Huh. It's nothing special, really. Just a crappy shoot-em-in-the head game. Nothing really special here.

[tuna fish]

Interesting idea, if not aimless.

Interesting idea, but not much else. Splicing words together for a song is a neat idea, but this doesn't do the concept justice. First, it would be much easier to click on the words rather than roll over them. Secondly, most of the words come out rather jumbled over the whole mess of overlaying music. So while this is a neat idea, it's not really all that good in practice.

[Virtual Driveby 2]

This game packs heat.

This game is so mean to the ghetto... but it's addictive as all hell. Great controls and style, and it just SCREAMS hi-score contest. I only wish I could get on the real high score system... Oh well. Guess I'll have to keep trying!

[Xiao Xiao No. 2]

More excellent Xiao Xiao work!

Man, this Zhu Zhu guy makes nothing but primo stick fighting movies. Even his earlier creations are a pleasure to view. I particularly like how each fight has three seperate outcomes depending on how high you hit the meter. Excellent work! I only wish this guy spoke English, or knew about Newgrounds so he could see how praised he is around here.

[Blow Up Uncle Sam!!!]

Good movie - unlucky timing.

Okay, I think this movie has gotten much more heat than it really deserves. It is simply a good game unfourtuantly released a week before a national tragedy. Nothing more. No malice was intended towards the US, and as far as leaving it up... I don't see why not. If you want revenge for recent events, go see the author's appropriate Bin Laden variation on this game. Don't lambast this author for the nation's tragedies.
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Anyhow, regarding the movie, this is done fairly well. Appropriate American-style weaponry, with funny consequences. Uncle Sam and gang seem a bit edgily-drawn, but it's nothing major. Bonus points on the Nuke, that's really funny! I just wish we could have gotten a few peeps out of Sam, perhaps saying, "Oh crap" or something. A few extra weapons of destruction would have been nice too.
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Good game, bad timing. That's all there is.