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[Shark! (v1.5)]

well done

Goodies:
Originality
Motion Blur Effect
Controls
Baddies =/ :
Music/Sounds (I'm sorry but I didn't like it)
Lag

Suggestions (you may like them or not):
>>Make it more fast paced
>>use bitMapData to prevent lag (in the case that u have f8 or if u didn't tried it out yet)
>>Please hunt better songs, I recently used Newgrounds Audio Portal (I know it's a pain in the ass to search stuff there, but sometimes it's worthy) and it came out good.

zipperdeaf responds:

Yeah, im trying to work with FLStudio instead of using someone elses so until i learn it more the music will suck, meh

[- :: Commando 3 :: -]

Hey

I don't usually write reviews but I saw somethings that I need to comment about:
I like this game genre, and the thing that is missing here I think it's the more "inside mission feeling", like those cut-out animatios that the strategy games have before mission, not just a map showing the locations.
I didn't like that my units were spawning at random spots (I don't know waht other people think about it).
When I pressed Load Game, it sent me to the last mission, tho I only achieved 1 mission actually (Man, I hate to fix bugs like that on my games cuz they're kinda random XD, I know you tried because I read some reviews)
Oh, and about this what you said before:
"Pausing is impossible in Commando 3, because the only way to pause would be to use a recursive for..in loop, which crashes the Flash Player. It said that in the instructions, which you were meant to read..."
All the games are pauseable, and the functions are kinda simple, I just use a global variable called _global.gamePaused (it's a boolean) to do the trick, it's like that:
_root.onEnterFrame = function(){
if(!_global.gamePaused){
//normal scripting goes here
well you can do some adjusts for other script loops and you will need to put that on the enemies AI or API (depending of how you make them appear, like if it is _root,attachMovie or... well u know this.

VENGEANCE-GGG responds:

Nope, the problem with that is that it only stops script executing on the main timeline, it doesn't stop the animations from playing, and there's no way to tell which animations were playing before you paused it in order to make them play again after you unpause it again. Believe me, I thought of everything, and the only option that could've worked is putting an enterFrame with a condition on every single movie clip in the entire game, plus setting variables for when they've been told to stop() or play(). That would take weeks to do, even if I could find all of the things I had to put it in.

[Regis_Cartoons ART]

nice

pretty good drawings you got, I like your style, Keep 'em coming :D

RegisCartoons responds:

Thank you. I'm glad you liked my style