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[CI3 trailer]

I'm gonna get some flak here . . .

But I didn't think this one was as good as the other two Combat Instincts. I think you're leaning more towards style and away from actual substance (a la DBZ). I'll just kinda break down my quips with it:

Graphics: The graphics are the best I've ever seen in a Flash game/movie, period. But, there are only 2 problems I see, one of them being minor which is the overuse of effects like lensflare which look like explosions and can be ultimately distracting and a major one, which will effect . . .
Gameplay: The gameplay here isn't too much different from the first two, except I don't know about you guys, but this ran very very slow, even on Low Quality. This made the game almost unplayable because my machine simply wouldn't respond promptly.
Story: The whole opening thing seemed kinda corny. It's like you turned your allies in the second one into enemies just for a plotline for the third one. But that's not my bitch about it, that would be a good idea, but the execution of the opening story came out fairly corny. It was almost as if the dialogue was written by a 12-year old in Counter-Strike and then thrown through a translater to fill in the rest of the words. This became a problem in the second one, especially during key sequences like when you had to take out those snipers on that hill "HAHAHAHA, Headshot!". I don't think trained alien soldiers would be saying that. But overall, the story felt a little cheaper than the first two.
Overall: Great graphical effort, but I think you should focus more on elaborating on the story more, because the Combat Instinct series has always been a good story backed up by good graphics, not a sorta ok story made up for by excellent graphics.

Let the flaming begin.

[goldilocks 2]

This was good.

But now we know absolutely nothing more than we did after the first one. We don't know what the necklaces are, we don't know his motive, and someone with a big-ass gun hasn't shot him dead, yet.

On with Goldilocks 3, then . . .

[Gender Roles]

You are a poopy poop head.

Poop.

cableshaft responds:

I have a penis.

[Kong]

WOW!!!!

This is the best movie I've seen in a LONG TIME!!!!

Three cheers for Razzo!

[World War 2: P2]

Great! Until . . .

the credits started rolling and you had a rap song come in. That totally blew me out of the immersion of the movie and quite frankly, pissed me off.

It's the equivilent of having Barney sing the "I love you" song during the closing of a news program.

[Luigi's Bad Luck]

Effort was put in it . . .

But not an incredibly huge amount and the movie wasn't that great. All you did was just move sprites from the original ROMs around in a Flash area with ripped Mario music. Woo. Great.

[Peace of War]

I'll be honest . . .

While the message was good, your style is just too comical for me to take seriously. I, as a weird perk, hate movies that are taller than they are wide.

Ben-Spurgin responds:

I agree, I don't like to make serious movies, this is my only one (and you see how it turned out!) but I got my site hosted for a year in echange so it worked out.
As for your "perk", the definition of a perk is an unexpected bonus. I think the word you're looking for is "psychosis".

[Snow]

What was this?

Seriously. What was this?

[The Bard's Song]

What's the big deal?

Seriously? It wasn't that good.

[Neo-Bender 2 SE]

I gotta agree with Cluster

The Neo-Bender SE was an actual Special Edition since the original was just a BulletTime mock of Bender and a couple balls. In Spanish.

This is just the original with 'Special Edition' stamped on the front. What's the 'Special' part of this 'Edition'?