Grenade Madness

It's not bad game, it's still unfinished (cpt. obvious - Early access) but playable and pretty fun with friends, especially if you rekt them :D (played before steam version in closed beta so don't get wrong with played time on steam)

Touch Orchestra is a small indie game studio that is located in Brno, Czech Republic. Grenade Madness is their first game on Steam but they also developed Rail Heads for mobile devices. Rather than a review – the game in its current stage has the potential to grow rapidly and very significantly through its development – I thought that some of my own personal observations would prove better. I tried to play the game on Wednesday. I logged into the game to find completely empty servers. I wondered if the game had bots you could play with when this was the case. Thankfully I found that the game could indeed be played with bots. Fifteen minutes later, which is a standard round, and the following screen shot was the result: [url=http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/450733824050078155/6DE79C12422F16121EBAEB62428326AD3CD7F63D/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|1024:576&composite-to=*,*|1024:576&background-color=black]link to screenshot[/url] I am used to playing with that type of ping being from Australia. If we Aussies don’t have local servers then the ping is going to be 200-350 on a good connection so please ignore the ping result. What I am specifically asking you to look at here is the scoreboard particularly ‘kills.’ This is a standard result of games with bots. The results were similar when I started a game with just one other person. You only lose “kills” when you commit suicide (-1 to kills each time you commit suicide). Rounds are fifteen minutes long. The “best” bot in this round killed itself at minimum fifteen times. The other two were in the twenties for a total of 63 suicides in a 15 minute round. That equates to 4.2+ suicides by the computer AI every minute. It’s more than that really if you want to get into the mathematics. There were 129 total kills in my game. I had 14 total kills and I may have killed myself more than once by accident as well. That type of AI is just unacceptable in a game like this when there are only 4 players/bots on a map. When playing with just another player the bots are just as bad at killing themselves. The game turns into a bit of a farce as you are constantly chasing your real life opponent around the map and taking the cheap bot kills when they’re not too busy killing themselves. So how do they manage to kill themselves? In the most stupid way possible. There were multiple occasions where I would think that I was getting close to killing a bot and it would turn to face a wall, shoot a grenade on the wall directly in front of its face and literally stand there as it blew itself to smithereens. The game is called Grenade Madness and not Suicide Madness. Unfortunately when I returned to play the next morning the servers were once again empty. The devs were awesome enough to provide a bounty of keys so I ran a quick giveaway on the Steamified Steam group in order to get some community members to play the game with. What I discovered was that you really need three or four players to have a meaningful game. A single bot wont kill you but it’s a pretty cool game when you have a number of real people to play with. It’s an easy game to learn – if you’ve ever played any sort of shooter you’re going to be set before you start – so it makes rounds easy to get into and a lot of fun. If you have a group of competent players it’s going to be some of the best fun that you can have and even more so if they’re a group of friends. So as much as I’ve ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the shortcomings of the game there are a lot of strengths and the game is a ton of fun. The action is fast and furious, the kills and suicides occur very quickly, and given the difference in weapons (knife, grenade and block placing launcher) there is room for quick thinking strategies to be employed. My favorite part of the game play are the knife fights. Though grenades can be launched and that is fun there’s nothing quite like being in the midst of close combat where you knife your opponent to death. And if there’s another player in the distance who shoots a grenade into your area he can get a smart double kill. You can even use the block grenade to put an obstacle in the unsuspecting way of your opponent. Although I must note that one time that I tried this I got my opponent stuck in the wall. The assorted arrangement of power ups are also quite handy and well thought out. I didn’t investigate this myself but apparently you can change a number of the settings within the game. A member of the Steamified community established his own random room and changed the base settings of the game. At one point he, and the bots, were running around three to five times faster than what I was capable of. Therefore if you are to play on a random server I would be a little skeptical as to what the settings in that particular room are. I must note that I loved the voice overs. When you commit suicide, for example, the robotic computer voice over will say “What have you done?” which is quite funny and when somebody else kills you you’ll occasionally hear “Try harder” which made me laugh quite sadistically. It’s small touches such as these that really can aide the game to reach its potential. The graphics are suitable but you’ll be sure to notice that there are currently clipping issues within the game. I think that about does it but I’d like to close this by thanking the Steamified community for being as fantastically awesome as you are. Yes, some of you got a free game out of it but it was an enormous amount of fun playing the game with you. If you could write a review for yourself and post it on the game’s store page – positive and negative – I am certain that the devs at Touch Orchestra will really appreciate it. It’s a surefire way that they get the information that they require to make their game the best that it can possibly be for you.

+ Приятная графика; Геймплей (поставь стену перед носом оппонента; различные бонусы и т.п.); Прокачка в уровнях (какой от этого профит кроме эстетического так и не понял); Багов/ лагов не заметил; - Онлайн... на данный момент на выделенных серверах людей сложно найти. Итого: Если есть друг, то можно приятно провести время (разбираясь в бонусах и др. аспектах игры) . Если вы один, то вам не повезло, т.к. боты тут просто БОТЫ и годны только для первых 3-5 минут как часть окружения. Учитывая ранний доступ - впечатления положительные и если буду сделаны шаги по привлечению аудитории, то будущее у этой игры будет безоблачное.

[h1]An Arena Multiplayer Grenade Launching Shooter[/h1] https://youtu.be/tuQBrKiSCTA + Lots of crazy explosions. There's not a whole lot of skill to it, you just fire grenades in the direction of the enemies and hope they run near them. Great casual fun for everyone. + Visually the game looks great + Quite a few creative levels with different environments + AI Bots, so you can play alone if you want to. [b]This game is in Early Access so don't take these too seriously[/b] - I would have liked to have seen more types of modes. Like Capture the Flag, or Team Deathmatch - I feel like there needs to be more variety in the levels. Perhaps levels with ramps, multiple floors, windows to shoot out of, more destructible environments, etc. - The biggest problem I had is that the camera is locked, so you can not aim too far up or down, it would be great if this was removed so you could arc grenades into the air or above obstacles. - Lacks background music

Динамичный экшен, подходящий для проведения неплохого вечера с друзьями. Геймплей не напрягает, графика симпатичная, саунтрек тоже приятный. Игра пока в раннем доступе, надеюсь что ее сделают еще лучше. Из проблемок только малое количество народа на серверах, но надеюсь со временем это исправится

Really crazy and fun to play with your friends ( there are not a lot of players online yet ). You just connect to the servrer and play.. And the controls are simple so it's really this kind of instant fun. Some of the maps look unfinished but overall the graphics looks great (see all screenshots) The crate gun really makes the game more fun so make sure you have it in your loadout! Also I would love the opportunity to design custom maps or the character (the robot is not as beautiful as the environment). Anyway good luck with the development and the final release. I can't wait for it..

го fy_pool_day с гранатами

Отличная мясорубка. Хорошее качество. Очень интересно, что стрельба идет только гранатами разного типа. Динамики добавляют постоянно попадающиеся бонусы и возможность строить стены. Есть выбор оружия, в том числе ближнего боя, прокачка с открытием нового типа и т.д. Из минусов, что некоторые карты совсем малы, да и игроков маловато. В целом отличная игра, учитывая ранний доступ.

рубилово месилово... динамике до q3 конечно далеко, но зато можно неспеша закидать все что видишь гранатами. игрушка не требовательна. но вот с онлайном очень хило. игра конечно в раннем, но смогут ли разрабы сделать к релизу то, что манило бы в игру, неизвестно. если да, то можно брать с хорошей скидкой, иначе - мимо.

It's like a 3rd person bomberman. Fun but I have a few nitpicks.The angle you can aim and shoot is too narrow and upgrading the mag to max basically gives you unlimited ammo. It's still in early access and I got it for free, so I can't complain much.