Alex McGrail

Raze is a 2D shooter flash game.  Its main focus is on multiplayer, and to that extent, the campaign mode has levels that play the same as the multiplayer mode.  There are two campaigns, the human campaign and the alien campaign.  The alien mode is unlocked after you win as the humans.  Each match has you and a number of AI characters fighting each other in five different modes: deathmatch, team deathmatch, elimination, team elimination, and juggernaut.  In deathmatch mode, you have to get a certain number of kills before your opponents do.  In elimination, each player gets a certain number of lives.  You have to be the last one standing.  In juggernaut, one person is stronger and has more health.  He gets points for kills.  Kill him to gain his powers.  In the campaign modes, you have to complete fifteen different levels that get harder as you go along.  You have the use of ten different weapons.  The first is the pistol.  It does decent damage and has a good reload time.  Then there is the bio uzi.  It launches a mixture of toxic waste and acid.  It is like the pistol, just with different sprites.  Third is the railgun.  It essentially emits a lightning bolt that does massive damage.  It has to charge up between shots, though.  The rocket launcher can launch three rockets in quick succession.  This barrage can take out almost any opponent.  The shotgun is exactly how it sounds.  A lot of damage in close range, but gets weaker the further away the enemy is.  The zapper is much like the shotgun, only with purple energy beams.  The sniper rifle is good for long-range and headshots and does quite a bit of damage.  The ice chaingun doesn’t do very much damage, but chews through bullets at a rate that will make your jaw drop in disbelief.  I’ll leave the other two weapons for you to discover if you play it.

It also has an achievement system.  There are only a few achievements, but they range in difficulty from somewhat hard to OMG IT’S FREAKING IMPOSSIBLE!!1!.  Sample achievements are to complete a match with only a pistol and to place first in a match on the highest difficulty.  If you get all of the achievements, you are a master at this game and can truly say that you have beaten it.

Overall, this will entertain you for about five hours…but that’s really good for a flash game.

Score: 8.75/10

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