Gameplay-wise the game is a cover shooter. It sees you hiding behind the refuse of a destroyed world, rolling and backflipping your way to save the princess. To fire your weapon you just select which enemy to target and it automatically fires for you. This system actually works quite well and is a lot more fun than it sounds. You also get missiles and grenades to make the game more exciting plus an option of which auxiliary device to take, such as a healing device, a device that makes your shots more accurate or even one that slows down time. Defeating a level will give you experience, money and an upgrade torn from your vanquished foes. There is a huge amount of upgrades to choose from and of course you can buy extra in game money through micro-transactions. I still dislike this method as I think that it makes the upgrades harder to get than they should be and the game is costing you $2.99 to start with. Having said that though the upgrades are quite cool and varied and Uppercut Games have already added extra content to the game.
Graphically the game is everything you would expect from the Unreal Engine, detailed high res polygons dancing across your screen. This game would run great on any dual core machine but on my original iphone 4 on hard difficulty and above, the game chugs. There is just too much action on screen. I can't imagine this game running very well on the 3GS either.
It's quite a cool game and I enjoy the combat more than the Infinity Blade system but it's not without it's problems. Overall the game is too short and sees you repeating areas just with a harder difficulty, again something borrowed from Infinity Blade. It's gonna chug on anything other than a dual CPU system when you get into the harder difficulties but there is plenty of fun to be had, plus it's an Australian made game. I bought it on Australia day for $0.99 and at that price it is hard not to recommend 8/10.
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