Posts tagged tactical assassin
Jun 22nd
After many hours of searching for a somewhat enjoyable flash game (which is quite hard to find these days) I found Sniper Assassin. Sniper Assassin is one of the many stick figure shooter games, and I had the displeasure of playing it.
According to the games description, it’s “a job that requires finesse and nerves of steel”. Instead, all it requires is the ability to read, and rudimentary clicking ability. The very unoriginally titled Sniper Assassin presents you with a small area with 5 or 6 same looking stick figures at once. Your job is to pick out which one is your target. This would have been a solid concept if the mission briefings didn’t slap you upside the head with the targets flawless description. This takes away any challenge the game may have previously presented in locating your target. It’s easy, boring, and frankly annoying. I appreciate the attempt to create atmosphere with the music, but it was terribly annoying after the second loop. Game play, it’s solid, but boring. Nothing you haven’t seen in games like Tactical Assassin 2. It’s a repetitive, predictable, and criminally short game with mediocre gameplay. You’d be best off avoiding it.
Now that thats finished, lets take a moment to discuss something. Why are there so many freakin’ stick figure flash games out there? At one point, I would say they were rather enjoyable, but its getting ridiculous people! This is like the fiftieth stick figure sniping game since tactical assassin, and I’m getting tired of it. Are you people too lazy to come up with something new and original? You want a fun, different game? Try The Sniper. At least it doesnt use stick figures. Come on, flash creaters. Please switch up the usual, don’t copy the originals like Tactical Assassin or Thing-Thing, (which are both excellent games), make your own, unique, fun game.
May 31st
Tactical Assassin 2, as made by Simon Hason, had a huge following even before its release. Tactical Assassin 1 was an immensely popular flash game released in 2007, and has over 10.4 million plays on Crazy Monkey Games at the time of this writing. For those of you who don’t know, Tactical Assassin 1 and 2 are flash games, with the player being the sniper receiving assignments about which stick man to take out in each level. Tactical Assassin 2 builds on that by adding purchasable weapons and accessories, along with storyline for those who want something to do besides shoot stick figures.
For those of you who might have already played through Tactical Assassin 2, there are level-changing cheats that you can use to change to a specific level of the game. For those of you looking to keep the game on your computer, I took the liberty of getting a downloadable version of the game, which you can get below.
(If your computer can’t view .swf files, I would recommend getting Irfanview, an image/flash/music viewer.)