hey griff! That's what I thought when the person mentioned about using Flash, that it would be too cartoonish looking. But then he told me to go on this site:
http://www.camperstrike.co.uk/play.php
It' a pretty good realistic 2D animated game. The thing that caught my eye is that it has certain features which my project requires. Such as the zoom, timer constraint and the moving of the 3 targets at random.
I'm starting to get very familiar with VRML and have looked into flash.
Thanks again for your input!