Rodrinator Jan 13 2006, 11:16 PM Game Title: South Park Arena. Genre: Multiplayer Action. Creator: Viper Soft. Description: A multiplayer deathmatch game, in which you must choose who controls your enemies, the difficulty, and various levels. Rating: 78%. Review: This game is a really fun title. It starts with a small cutscene, which is quite simple, and then, you'll find yourself in the main menu. In there, you have 3 options: Exit (press this to exit the game), Credits (there you can see the game creator, who composed the music, the beta testers, and a the web page that hosts the game) and Start Game. If you choose Start Game, the game will let you choose the numbers of players (Player 1: Cartman, Player 2: Kenny, Player 3: Stan, and Player 4: Kyle), the difficulty (Easy, Medium and Hard), and It'll show you the controls for each player (which can be modified by pressing ALT+Y). After you have made all the preparations (choose players, difficulty and If you want, modifying the controls), you have to press "GO!". After pressing the "GO!" button, you'll be asked to choose where do you want to play. There are 8 different arenas to choose: Fraggin' Forest: The forest's graphics are okay. The waterfall, the bridge and the trees are well made. And you can always use the river to take cover. Recommended for beginners as It's really simple. Ike's Island: This level is really annoying. It's quite small, so if you are figthing against the CPU, you'll see AI problems. Reccomended only if you play it with friends. And no, I don't know how to get the Freezing Gun. South Park: This level is a good one. Take cover using the houses, and make your enemies get hit by a car! This is a level that you can play against the computer, and against friends. Cartman's Castle: Long live to prince Cartman! In this level, you have a castle to the north, and to the south, there is a forest. This level is great for playing against your friends, as you can do a lot of funny things with this level. Attack Of The Atlantic: Like Fraggin' Forest, only that you are in the snow. The rocks are well made, but the level don't have nothing of interest. There is a penguin, but as it doesn't do anything, it's not a challenge for the players. Hell: Welcome to my dominion! Even though this level seems boring, the CPU's AI works fine, and the rocks look really cool. If only that lava could hurt you... Death Desert: This is a really fun level too. The CPU's AI works fine, and you can use the really well made cactus to take cover. Dark Forest: The level of the intro! This level also has good CPU's AI, and the trees are good for taking cover. Well, now, let's talk about gameplay. Each character have 100 health points. When your health points reaches 0, you die. If you kill another character, you will win 1 point. When someone reaches 10 points, the game ends, and you will be taken to a frame, where they show you the winner. But you can always cure yourself with medipacks Now let's talk about weapons. You have 6 weapons: 1) Pistol: This light weapon is really annoying. It shoot slow, and doesn't harm your enemy. Get this out as soon as you can. This weapon does 6 points of damage. 2) Bazooka: Blast your enemies away with this sweet thing! It does 20 points of damage. It's quite slow. 3) Saw Gun: This gun shoots flying saws, which bounce if they touch some objects. This weapon does 8 points of damage, and I don't really reccomend It. 4) Freeze Gun: Use this gun to freeze enemies. While they are stun by your Freeze Gun, the enemies can't do anything. This weapon doesn't do any damage. I personally recommend using this weapon with the Beam Gun. 5) Beam Gun: The most powerful weapon in the game. This great but slow weapon does a damage of 40 points. I recommend using it with the Freeze Gun. Now let's talk about graphics. This game has really good and neats backgrounds. The sprites of the boys are quite ugly, but they are unique (the first time I see them). Even though the sprites are quite small, the levels are really big. To the next subject: music and sound. The music is really repetitive as there are only 2 midis: the main menu midi, and the levels midis. The Main Menu midi suits perfectly for it's purpose, but the level's midi is too weak, and you can barely hear it. There are sounds for most weapons. And at last, computer's AI. You may want to download this game, but don't have anyone to play with. Then, you can fight against the computer. There are 3 different levels: Easy (the computer is really dumb, it has a bouncing movement, and shoot in the direction that they are facing), Medium (the computer is more intelligent, and goes after you), and Hard (the computer follows and shoot toward the nearest opponent). I personally recommend playing in Hard. The Easy mode isn't a challenge at all, and the medium is quite easy, while Hard will give you a challenge. Anyway, the skilled players will find it easy in any mode. I give it this score because the game gets really repetitive if you don't anyone to play with. The game lacks of sounds and music, but the graphics are remarkable. If there is something that can be added to the game is: More interactive objects on levels. Hazards for every level. More midis. Better graphics for the kids. More sounds. So, I personally recommend this game If you have 3 other people to play with. Anyway, you can always play against the computer, as in most of the levels, they have a really well made AI.