Flash Game: Stranded

Stranded is a generic top-down flash shooter. You control the character with the WASD keys, whilst aiming and firing using the mouse. At first, the game seems promising, with the "Story" mode featuring voice acting and cutscenes... Or at least at the beginning. For the most part, all you do is remain in a single, bland square of sand and fend off hordes of small, colored, boring enemies. Whilst if the game were to be shorter, it could be called exciting, the fact of teh matter is, it takes too long for anything to happen. For the first 5 levels, which seem to stretch on and on, all you're facing is little green things, which are un-identifiable, whose only attack is to walk at you. The graphics are simple, but nice; however, I would have liked to see more of them. The sound effects were good, and the music was too, if a little soft. A nice feature was recoil from the weapons, which I thought was a neat addition. The weapons themselves were good, to a degree; the shotgun sounded great, and the screen shook slightly when I fired it. The addition of an Arcade and Rail mode (the same thing, except with a rail gun) adds a degree of replayability to this game.