Adult Swim, the late night ‘mature’ programming block on the Cartoon Network is putting out some… interesting games on their site of late. One such game is the Candy Mountain Massacre.
I’m not going to pretend to understand the story in this game, mostly because I didn’t bother reading it. But the gist of it seems to be that there are some cupcakes that live on Candy Mountain that are being held hostage by the native fauna, and you have to rescue them. At your disposal is a small but effective arsenal of weaponry including a machine gun and a rocket launcher.
The game is a whole lot like Quake, it’s fully 3D and essentially is just you running around and shooting anything that moves, collecting powerups, and trying to dodge incoming fire.
Despite what this game looks like, it contains some (fairly mild) profanity, and makes gratuitous use of blood and gore and is absolutely not, in any way, shape, or form, for the kiddies. If you’d like to get a taste of what the game’s like, there’s a video you can see here, but you’ve been warned.
I’m pretty blown away that this game can be run in your web browser, and if your computer is sufficiently powerful it doesn’t work half-bad. The game is really short, weighing in at a whopping 3 levels, though there is the promise of more levels coming at some point in the future. I found the normal difficulty to be a little more than I could handle, but was able to blow through easy mode without much of a problem. I’m not sure if the difficulty needs some adjustment or if my shooting game skill have deteriorated in the last few years. But I did get about a half-hour of fun out of it before I finished what game is there, which is a lot more than I typically get out of those silly little browser games.