Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Super Arab 2 – what's gone wrong?

I had the doubtfully enjoyable opportunity to play Super Arab 1, so I didn't expected much from Super Arab 2. It's just another Super Mario clone, not original in any kind. You have a simple side-viewed levels here and main hero trying to jump his way to the end somewhere on the right side. There are bonus coins (this time melon pieces), enemies with the parameters of turtles – and some elements of Super Mario gameplay are even missing, like the carnivorous flowers, power-ups making the hero grow or diving into the tubes.

Super Arab 2 can't stand when compared to the best freeware clone, Mario Forever, in any way. The graphics are solid, but there's not even half of different settings than in MF. Gameplay lacks Mario feeling and level design is just average. And I was very disappointed, that the author didn't make the game at least CONTROVERSIAL. Why the only thing making it stand out of the tons of MMF Mario games is the beard and scarf of Super Arab and the arabic title screen? I'd love a game to talk about, an evil, terrorist, anti-American, or a game about islam religion and djihad, or a stylish oriental arcade game with camels, bedouins, water pipes, carpets and so on.

Let's hope we'll see something of this in Super Arab 3.

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5/10

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