Flashbang

Design X

Arm, lvl1 Flash on steroids

Buildpic: There are two ways of sunmming this up. There's ugly, and then there's ugly. The better of the two evils is the 96X96 Buildpic, as you see above, which even shows a hint of creative effort, including detail, a very attractive action pase, and a shadow. The actual BP in game (shown here), is a horribly turned, badly angled, lack of detailed, lack of shadow, and weird-look strange contraption that seems like it was a demented brown-slug colored magnet, with a little thing that looks like to me to be a radio antenna [0]. The background looks more like a distorted set of pixels, and is totally void of detail [0.5]. Merging? What merging? [0]. This would be much better if you used the angle used in the PCX version. It would still score low (about 4), but the angle looks really good.

Buildpic: 0.5

Model: Don't let the 3DO pic in the review fool you; this thing's butt ugly in game. The sleekness does NOT show in the game. In game it looks like a weird-shaped U, with a teeny weeny turret, which through close inspection actually MATCHES the original Flash turret, except some texturing changes. Because of that I have to give the unit a zero. The unit needs a redesign desperately. If you want to keep the U, then change the turret into something bigger, and fills the space. I like the idea, but not how it was initiated [0]. The texturing is so ugly that it makes the Celebrity's worst dressed look pretty. The textures are repeated over, and over, and over... No cavedog 3D implimented, and the turret is rather simply textured, that doesn't look quite right. Too few logo textures [0.5]. The corpse is totally weird. A third of it is lamely textured (left side), the middle is not even wreckage-textured (uh-oh), and the right hand side has a really nice texture for it. Unfortunately, I'm not giving a point for one good looking face. The turret is totally missing, with no sign that it actually EXISTED there, and there is no chassis disfiguration whatsoever [0].