Blip & Blop: Balls of Steel

Moby ID: 22558

Description

Pac-Man is a ball with a mouth; Blip and Blop are balls with arms -- conventional arms of several varieties, in addition to more exotic heavy weaponry such as lasers and flamethrowers. Chekhov's law dictates that the gun in the first act must go off in the third, but these hardened spheres haven't got the patience for that, wading directly into a non-stop carnival of carnage, a shooting frenzy only occasionally interrupted with cut-scene dialogue and nods to what might otherwise be described as the run'n'jump platformer genre -- had they legs to run and jump with. (Wiggle and bounce?)

Of course, a game based on wholesale slaughter is only as wicked as its antagonists, and here developer LOADED Studio has taken an interesting tack, setting up forty sinister derivative versions of much-loved video game protagonists and other paragons of childhood benevolence -- the Smurfs (aka "Snuffs", presumably for copyright reasons), the Care Bears ("Scare Bears"), Pokémon ("Dorkemon"), Snorks, Rayman, Lara Croft, Lemmings (in a bonus stage reminiscent of Lamers), and so forth across 5 levels (and two bonus stages), both as mooks and bosses. And when you and they meet? You'll demonstrate that you've got balls and they've got guts.

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Critics

Average score: 81% (based on 8 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.4 out of 5 (based on 4 ratings with 1 reviews)

Cruel parody... and super funny game in "Metal Slug" Style.

The Good
The game has an interesting idea for a story - Smurfs killed Gargamel. Meanwhile, two balls of steel decided to avenge him. They now massacre Smurfs, Pokemon, rainbow teddy bears .... There is also the bosses - such as Papa Smurf - which help the Smurfs look like terminators, and hurling energy as Son-Goku from Dragon Ball. Also, and further are successive, like a teddy bear-Jedi

Game is Platform shooter, similar to Contra or Metal Slug. High-speed nature of the game, the mass of enemies, and a lot of blood - that when it can be expected. If you love fast action games, you'll be delighted. Primary weapon, fast carbine has infinite ammo, but its firepower "does not knock." However, some killed opponents leave the guns. Machine gun, shotgun, flamethrower - it's fun. Players have a special weapon - a raid of cows, which in practice purifies the battlefield.

The game, even though it has quite a few years, it looks pretty nice. A large merit in this same style graphics (made like cartoon). So, most of the enemies, occurs in its natural environment. By the way, the animation of the game is at a great level.Sound & Music is on a high level - fast music, good sound of gunfire, etc. I do not have too much what to coif, even if I wanted to.

The Bad
"Just to be able to fault anything". Too high a level of difficulty - as an arcade game with just a few coins.. Multiplayer is cooperation on a single computer. Cool and nicely, (even theoretically) it should be possible to play over the network. the game could have more weapons. It's all the little things do not affect the assessment of the game.



The Bottom Line
The game, as freeware is very good, and the gameplay beats many modern production that have "great graphics", but does not have to offer anything more. On the other hand, do not be fooled colorful graphics, and do not let this game to some younger cousin, because the level of brutality here is really high. Well, unless you encourage him to brutal life, but that's your business. Ave!

Windows · by 666gonzo666 (67794) · 2014

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Game added May 30, 2006. Last modified February 22, 2023.