Cortex Command Mod Contest Reviews
Contest 5: Economy
Mod: Used Rockets
Author: Squeegy Mackpy
Average Score: 6.875
Graphics
Judge's Comment: What little squeegy added here is truly awesome. The rocket sprites themselves aren't much, simply edited rockets with gibs and such, but the effects of the malfunctioned stuff, man, that's just awesome.
The sparks are a joy to look at and the sounds fit perfectly.
I haven't much else to add, because there isn't much else to add.
It's simply good old edited vanilla stuff.
Rating: 8/10
Mod Mechanics
First impressions were that it would be a lot better with a positive, but negligible gold cost and further randomised rockets.
A very cool concept that could use a little more time to be fully realised.
The effects on the ships are all correctly aligned, though the Lua script he requested to randomise the rocket you get would cut down on buy menu clutter.
He seems to have copied a lot of sounds from Base.rte, which is less than ideal given that they account for almost all of the file size.
References to Base.rte would be preferable.
His ini is good, with the exception of an odd structure (lots of separate ini's, such as one specifically for feet) and a couple of unnecessary comments, which aren't a big issue.
Rating: 7/10
"Acceptable"
Mod Mechanics (2)
Pros:
- The look of the rocket just tells you how it's gunna fail.
- Lot's of good ways of making each rocket steer differently.
- Use of emitters [like what they emitish]
- Original
Cons:
- You get PAYED? I'd much rather prefer free.
The idea was fairly awesome, and the description of the final product would've been cool
Unfortunately no body helped you so...
Rating: 7.5/10
Gameplay
Well made, everything is nice and unique, but the prices seem like a cop-out to make the mod apply to the theme and there just isn't enough there to make it worthwhile.
Rating: 5/10