The darkly named Flash game Brain Splatters 2 will lead your character through a mystery-filled storyline, but you’re allowed not to notice it behind all the action, violence and unusual humour of this unusual stick game. Be advised that some of the action sequences will require some serious reflexes from you!
The goons you’ll encounter in Brain Splatters 2 won’t wait around before trying to kill you, as you’ll soon discover from your frequent deaths without seemingly having a chance to react. Fortunately, the earlier stages of the game involve frequent auto save checkpoints, which will allow you to continue playing from the very spot where you met your doom.
The gameplay of Brain Splatters 2 is divided into four separate arenas, as the game calls them. With later stages of the game will come greater difficulty, but also better weapons, such as a shotgun or sniper rifle. However, you definitely won’t see much in terms of puzzles or an engaging storyline here, as with many other stick men games.
The game begins with you alone in the building with green stick men figures who are out to get you. Known only as Wipeout Terrorists, their agenda is unclear, but they’re presence on the screen is nothing short of dangerous. In fact, there’s not a single sequence in Brain Splatters 2 where you’re allowed for more than half a second of time to think about your next move. You’ll find yourself dying over and over again, until you finally get it right.
The main appeal of Brain Splatters 2 rests with the game’s need for immediate action from you. There is a spot in this game where 6 goons are jumping out at you one by one from a sniper distance and eac
h of their shots will result in an instant death. Not too great as far as any sort of realism goes, but we’ve come to expect this of stick men games.
After the impossibly difficult shoot-out comes the game’s final arena where you will encounter someone known so far only as ‘the boss’. I won’t spoil the game for you, but the warehouse where he hides will have you dealing with even more challenging shoot-outs than before, with a weirdly satisfying conclusion.
