Madness Interactive

This is an offshoot of a wildly popular animation series, Madness Combat, and it's quite a lot of fun to play. There are lots of weapons, and it's very bloody, you know, all that good stuff that the kids today like.

First, the bad news about this game: the mouse controls get a little crappy when you play it inside your browser. You'll notice that sometimes while you're right in the middle of pwning a n00|3 your mouse will be outside of the Flash area and the controls will not work right. This is a problem with Flash and games - for very good reasons, Adobe/Macromedia decided that it's not a good idea to let a Flash game move your cursor for you, so you can't constrain a cursor to a particular piece of the screen. This is, actually, the primary reason you don't see first person shooters in web-games, as these generally hide your cursor and allow you full 360 degree motion. In a Flash game, your mouse would leave the game and the game would have no idea that you were still moving it.

The good news: there is a downloadable version of the game on Flecko.net that purports to have better controls. I say "purports" because it is Windows only and at the moment I'm trying to detach myself from the Windows nipple by switching to Linux (Kubuntu, to be specific) - so far I love Linux except for

1. The fact that the most recent Flash player is 7, whereas the Windows and Mac users are already at version 9. [Update: I just discovered that a beta version of Flash 9 does exist for Linux, and I'm trying to install it right now...use at your own risk!]
2. The lack of decent games available on the platform
3. Various minor hangups like the fact that wmv files won't play in my browser

But I digress. The other good news is that this is one of the very few Flash games out there that makes the source available! You'll still need some sort of Flash authoring environment to use it, but still, it's pretty cool. As expected of any popular open source game, there are tons of mods for you to play with.