Seconds of Madness

Makes the 80's proud

Reviewed by Shawn from afro-ninja.com

Seconds of Madness is a futuristic sports game (well, I’m calling it a sports game) where you navigate yourself through a tube filled with obstacles and see how long you can last. It’s more fun that a lot of high-score minigames I know.

The graphics in this game are pretty interesting, with an 80’s style computer generated feel to them. The tunnel background looks like a video being played. The character looks like something out of a cheesy sci-fi movie, but it fits perfect. Your character only has static frames of animation- that is to say for instance when you duck, there’s no ducking animation. Same with jumping. Not a major issue but a couple frames could have been added for some fluidity.

All you really do in the game is dodge stuff, but there’s not a set method of doing it. You can duck, jump, and move 360 degrees around in the tube. Sometimes it’s better to jump a wall, other times it’s better to move to the side of it. There’s some extra life tokens to pick up along the way but chances are you’ll lose a life (or two) just trying to get one of them. What I don’t like about this game is that if you hit a wall it takes a life and instantly restarts you where you just were. Meaning if there were two walls ahead of you and you hit the first one, you’re almost surely hitting that second one. A couple seconds of invincibility would have went a long way.

Once you get so far the amount of stuff you have to avoid gets pretty dense. Luckily the game is forgiving when it comes to ducking and jumping around the obstacles, but I still think starts throwing too much stuff at you too soon. Even though the game is fairly shallow, it was still entertaining due to the overall style- the way you slide around and avoid things feels the way it should. Nothing too amazing here, but I’d give it a play.

Click here to play Seconds of Madness






Comments (0) [view all]
Click here to leave a comment