Pandemonium is the latest game published by Bubblebox, the plot seems good, you have to regain all the parts to the golden muffin. The game starts with one of the best and slickest intro’s around, a real cinematic masterpiece. Your main character’s a sort of snot coloured gi joe who gets the golden muffin which is then broken into several pieces, your job is to get all the pieces back together.

All sounds great so far and then you get to the actual game, your character is a tiny dot running around a static arena and all you have to do is pick up muffins while avoiding a few other object and falling cubes. Its all a bit of an anti climax after the awesome intro. The other problem is the main character has just a bit too much inertia, and with him being so small it’s very easy to hit the things you are meant to avoid. I found it pretty frustrating to be honest, when you have 2 items only pixels apart with a tiny character you end up just running into all the bad stuff. The levels are all pretty much of a muchness, the backgrounds change but its basically the same game just with different stuff to pick up avoid

Having said that about the game it is beautifully presented, nice instructions and brilliant cut scenes, I just felt the actual game play was a bit repetitive and also rather dull.

Go and play Pandemonium.

A game which has been out for a while by Brad Bourne of fancy pants fame and C404.
A pretty formidable flash dev team and this game is the fruits of their hard work.

The game itself revolves around you controlling a massive eagle who has to feed her young who are in a nest on the side of the screen, you do this by swooping down and picking up civilians before they get to the right side of the screen. You can then drop them in the nest for feeding time. If the civilians manage to get all the way to under your nest they shoot your young. You get to the next level if you have fed up your eagle chicks a certain amount of people, or its game over if they take too many bullets.

The actual game kind of reminds me of rampage as its a proper monster masher, the premise seems quite straight forward but as the levels progress you get swat teams, fire engines, tanks, police, all turning up with all sorts of hardware to try and take down your young. You can then pick up people splat them on swat vans and then drop them on other vans and create massive chain effect explosions, it is real carnage on the later levels.

If you like something which isn’t too taxing on the brain cells and a bit of mindless violence it’s definitely for you. It doesn’t have too much long term appeal and does get a little repetitive after a while but its incredibly well put together and gives you a good 10 minute fix of destruction.

Go and play Nuclear Eagle.