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:-O, :-O and once more :-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the BEST singe player pack I’ve ever seen! (And from this point, also the only one I need ;-). Fantastic eye candy, superb game play, well-placed secrets and mind teasing puzzles. Still not convinced? Need more reasons to download this immediately? Well continue reading then…..
Ok, eh…..really, I’m out of ideas here so I dunno how to continue.eh…well, Overlord, didn’t you said take that if ppl were gonna rate this take some time? Does that mean the review or the lvls? I’ll go with lvls. And by doing this I guess I’ll need to explain them in more details.
Ok, here goes: The lvls are all put together in one GIANT campaign (dunno any other description for it). The campaign itself is divided into 5 episodes (one secret) It’s almost like the official single player game with the same tilesets and same amount of lvls excluding the secret episode but I’m still not sure if I’m right. The episodes are: Escape, Through the history, Undiscovered worlds, Devan encounter and the secret one’s Devastating grounds. Now when you download this pack you can read all these stuff in the RHG readme so I’m gonna continue with the actual description of the lvls instead.
Also there’s the not so big but still very good expansion pack: RHG: The Fortress using Overlords so called “advanced tilesets” .;-P Because there are two “campaigns”, I have decided to divide my review into two parts. One about RHG and one about The Fortress. Alrighty everyone, brace yerself for MY review:
RABBIT HONOUR GUARD SECTION
LVL DESIGN AND EYECADNDY AND…STUFF
Unfortunately, because of my bad memory, my brain can only hold roughly 10 lvls out of the 70 so don’t be surprised when you download this pack and play one of the lvls and say: “Hey! White Rabbit was wrong about this and that!” ;) The lvls have all got plenty of trigger stuff and special effects. Two good examples are the lvls made of beach and labrat tilesets. (I forgot their names). The beach lvls have trigger effects that I have NEVER seen before (not that I’ve seen many). By standing on something or stomping a metal crate the water level goes higher or lower or baddies pops out from nowhere. (Actually, I think it’s above and not behind as Overlord said in the readme ;-P) In the labrat lvls, there are tubes or thin…long…openings…on the ground or…whatever and out of it comes electro blaster fire, seekers and something that looks like the beam from the laser shield. I have ABSOLUTELY no idea how you did it (but would really like to know) and it just keeps me wondering and wondering but only when I have time because I spend my time mostly on looking at the beam. (I’m still doing it 8) which makes my eyes go large as big dinner plates)
GAMEPLAY
The game play of the lvls are as I said superb and mostly (or all the time) affects the difficulty of it too. One good example is the lvl Colapsing? (you spelled collapsing wrong Overlord :-P) Although the design is (simple?) and it isn’t very hard to play, the lvl is STILL (in my opinion) one of the most frustrating and time taking lvls in the whole pack. If you don’t get what I say, download this pack and find out for yourself.
AMMO AND OTHER WEAPONS STUFF
The use and the placement of ammo is also great. In the castle lvls, you really have to use and take advantage of the pepper sprays long range cause without it, you’re dead cause the baddie placement is very professionally done so it’s gonna be real hard killing them with bouncers or the good old blaster. Excellent. Also, there is also very good use of electro blasters, especially in the first lvls where you will find it much easier to kill baddies if you have got some electro blasters ready. But be warned though, I recommend you put them on rationing and only use them if ABSOLUTE necessary cause if you use’em up like a maniac, you will sooner or later find yourself in life and death situations (but you can always restart ;-) where the electro blaster could have saved ya. Also, I like the amount of weapons in the later harder lvls. The ammo is VERY sparse and you almost only get freezers and toasters which can be useful but isn’t very destructive which is parts of the reasons why I died a unforgivable two times when I played the Devan encounter episode. The only thing I can add now is that Overlord has obviously spent a great amount of time working on all these ammo stuff and he has done a marvellous job. Marvellous.
BADDIES
The baddies however is the main part of how hard the lvl is. Sometimes they attack yer in a mass all together and a good example is the eye generating machine in the lvl The First Try. Although it can be hard to survive them without the full health carrot, you’re gonna get some fun before you die. I dunno about Spaz but with Jazz, yer can jump around until you get all the eyes above you and then you super jump. The result is that you cut through the eyes like butter :-) and hopefully you’ll get all 16. Also, they can attack you hidden in holes or above ya like those banana throwing monkeys in the jungle lvls. They hide themselves in trees and use it like a bunker to throw their bananas at ya. And it is VERY hard to not get him by the bananas. Also, some baddies are positioned PERFECTLY as some kind of special attack target. Just trick some flying stuff that normally annoys you and super jump. And…. :-O!!!!!!!! This is the first complain on this pack ever!! (Or maybe not, cause I didn’t really bother to read the other reviews :-P)
Some baddies are badly placed and they’re all in a row just waiting for Spaz to use his sidekick on them. And there’s no air defence either e.g. crows or flying bugs on some places guarding the ground baddies. Not good, not good cause the baddies shouldn’t be placed so that one character is better of killing them than the other. They should only be like that if you can’t prevent it.
HURT EVENTS AND OTHER OBSTACLES
Also, there is plenty ingenious use of hurt events in some lvls e.g. the jungle ones where big tree stumps with sharp bottoms go up and down like those knifes in Tomb Rabbit. Only they go a little bit faster and it’s really tricky going past them if you don’t have good timing. Also, in the secret episode there are…oh wait a minute, it’s supposed to be secret…so I’m not gonna write anything about it, discover it for yourself, but be warned: they are tricky to get past. Hehe :-)
TILESETS
Also, to spice up everything, Overlord has used his 4 of his own tilesets (no, make that 5) to build the lvls in the secret episode Devastating grounds. The tilesets are: Top Secret 1, Top Secret 2, Plastic, Space Prison and X-COM apocalypse. Top Secret 1 and 2 are almost the same except from a few tiles hear and there. It’s very original and includes lots of animations and eye candy but still have the tiles to build a complex and big lvl. Great tileset, that’s all I can say. The tileset Space prison is also one of the best tilesets in this pack. It includes lotsa lotsa stuff and as yer all know, stuff is good.:-) Also, Overlord has decided to share some of the MCE stuff with ppl who’s not really good at lvl editing (e.g. me :-P) and thanks to them, we may lvls with better eye candy in the future. Unfortunately, it looks like the tileset Plastic and X-COM apocalypse isn’t as good as the other three tiles. Plastic includes funny letters and weird laser stuff and X-COM apocalypse has plenty of background eye candy and cool lightsaber stuff (or something like that) but except from that, in my opinion they’re not much really.
USE OF TILESETS
Now, none of these lvls would be anything at all without good use of the tilesets being used. And I tell ya ppl, Overlord has NOT made good use of the tilesets, he has made SPLENDID use of the tilesets. Almost every tile in every set is used in all the lvls and in the secret episode Devastating Grounds, Overlord has showed what his own custom tilesets can do. Trigger effects, hurt events, lasers, eye candy, they’re all there so if you can’t get to the secret episode at the first try, try again, and again cause I tell ya it’s worth it.
MP LVLS
But wait! I’m forgetting something here. Oh yes, the multiplayer lvls. Overlord has included 3 battle, 3 ctf and 3 treasure lvls in this pack. But by taking a look at them, you can quickly see that they’re not as good in quality compared with the singe player lvls. They are, actually quite disappointing…… :( The battle lvls has poor weapons placement, you can’t really…battle in them, one of them are using the heavily overused Carrotus tileset and the treasure lvls are confusing and one even too small. Although the ctf lvls include some original ideas with very fun stuff like “spring frenzy” :) and much better weapons placement than the battle lvls with some cool eye candy, the rest of the bunch is not much really.
RHG: THE FORTRESS SECTION
LVL DESIGN AND EYECADNDY AND…STUFF
OK, here’s the not so long awaited expansion pack of the fabulous Rabbit Honour Guard: Rabbit Honour Guard: The Fortress. This pack consists of 8 very well done lvls. The first and last of them is not playable though and all you need to do is sit back, read the text and enjoy the eye candy. :) The rest of the bunch however is hard as h*ll and it’s gonna take a lot of skill and determination (and savings ;) to complete them. All the lvls has got excellent design and has got some VERY demanding puzzles too. You have to destroy computers, solve trigger and warp combinations, press a keyboard here and also you’ll need to fly through an invisible warp maze. Also there’s plenty of secrets to find. But don’t be happy just cause there are many secrets, they are the most well hidden I have ever seen and it’s very tough to find them. Also, there’s some VERY nice eye candy and sometimes you catch yourself looking at all sorts of eye candy stuff whilst the baddies make rabbit stew out of ya. Also, just like RHG, there’s ingenious use of trigger effects and destroying a computer or pressing a keyboard often activates triggers. When they are activated, you will find either:
1. Being sent to a bonus area.
2. A secret door opens (or a normal door)
3. You’ll get sent into what looks like an abyss. 3.
4. Things will either improve or get really bad for you in the future. ;-)
So, in short: the lvls are simply as near perfect as they can be. Move on to the next section plz.
I’LL FINISH THE LATER SECTIONS…LATER. ;-P
CONCLUSION:
Well, this about everything I remember and if yer still require more reasons, consult someone else cause I’m out of them. :-) And for ppl who’s not as stupid as those who need more reasons I’ve got a message:
DOWNLOAD IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOTES
Here’s a note to lil’ Overlord ;P here: now that you have made RHG, I’m gonna warn you, we all expect quite a lot of you now, so don’t you DARE disappoint us. ;)
Here’s a note to everyone else here: screw the official SP lvls*, dump Tomb Rabbit* and all the other SP lvls* cause the only SP lvls you need is Rabbit Honour Guard!!
Oh, and btw, by writing this review I’ve gone from New reviewer to Occasional reviewer. YAY!!!!!
:-D :-D Let this day, be remembered for ever!!! :-D :-D
*In my opinion. :-)[This review has been edited by White Rabbit]
