Hi,
Since I enjoy playing the original Change Reaction, I was very excited about
this new version of the game, and immediately bought it upon reading the
announcement on Draconis's Twitter feed. Actually, I first downloaded the
file from their website and installed it after first removing version 1, and
discovered, to my surprise, that there's no playable demo! I know there's an
audio demo on the site, but I couldn't get it to play using their player,
which I believe is Java-based. (I personally don't know why developers have
to use these players on their sites. I think it's better to just link to an
MP3 file so the visitor can listen to it in their favorite player.)
Purchasing and registering the game was simple, but I noticed that the
information displayed on the screen when you're presented with the
registration dialog wasn't spoken automatically by JFW, or even a TTS engine
like it was in the first version. I had to use the JAWS cursor to read it.
After getting into the game, I listened to most of the tutorials for the
various game types. I personally would've prefered a manual like the
previous version had, but the Learn to Play option isn't bad, though I
noticed that if you move back a page with the Left Arrow, for example, the
speech tends to read something else, or at least doesn't seem to skip to
that section right away.
Now we come to gameplay, and this is where I'm really having problems. (I
should mention that I'm playing this game using Windows XP.) So far, I've
just played, or rather tried to play, the Classic mode. Either I'm so used
to version 1's gameplay, or I'm not doing something right in version 2, but
there are times things don't seem to work propperly. In particular, I've
noticed that speech doesn't get interrupted when quickly pressing the Left
and Right arrow keys, like in version 1. There are also times when I don't
get any speech at all for awhile, or else I'll be on a coin, but the
previous one isn't read out. As well, I might press Space when I'm on a
Penny, for example, which may be the coin I have to match, and nothing
appears to happen. No laughing noise or anything! The first time I started
noticing all this behavior, I thought my keyboard was acting up, even though
I had unloaded my screen reader completely. I've even noticed that the sound
you hear when a lit bomb explodes doesn't play half the time. I might be on
a bomb, and then I hear the scream, but no proceeding explosion.
In conclusion, Change Reaction 2 might be a good game, but so far I'm
beginning to think I should've stuck with version 1 until these bugs were
squashed.
Thanks.
Yours Sincerely,
Kelly John Sapergia
Show Host and Production Director
The Global Voice Internet Radio
www.theglobalvoice.info
Personal Website: www.ksapergia.net
Business Website (KJS Productions): www.kjsproductions.com
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