For me Hexage is a kind of builders that harkens again to the early days of the App Retailer and actually the beginnings of iPhone gaming. I’ve spent many collective hours taking part in the likes of Totemo, Radiant, Radiant Protection, EVAC, Reaper… the checklist goes on. So I used to be delighted to see one other new recreation from Hexage launch this week known as Flying Tank, and much more delighted that that is one more critically good recreation from this developer.
It is a horizontal scrolling shooter that takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting the place aliens have arrived on Earth and humanity determined to greet them peacefully. The huge aliens simply type of frolicked within the sky doing their very own factor, and people simply type of stored doing their very own factor as nicely. Slowly although, the aliens started consuming the planet’s assets and taking up, and for the reason that people lived alongside them for thus lengthy they weren’t actually well-equipped to struggle them off.
Their answer was to only… nuke the entire planet, mainly. And let me let you know, that did NOT go as deliberate. The aliens nonetheless dominated supreme, humanity was virtually utterly worn out within the course of, and people people who did survive have splintered off into numerous factions. You, together with your fleet of flying tanks, are kind of a employed goon that blasts away aliens and people alike throughout 24 totally different missions as you attempt to assist reclaim Earth from the aliens.
Controllers are supported in Flying Tank, and the sport performs simply nice with them, however that is additionally a recreation that was designed extremely nicely for the touchscreen. Default controls have your ship–er, tank–following your finger, however relative contact is on the market within the choices and it’s my choice. You hearth your essential gun by tapping the display or holding right down to rapid-fire, launch your particular weapon with a swipe to the proper, and drop a bomb by swiping down. Sure, there are floor enemies along with airborne ones. You even have one other particular capacity, usually a defend, mapped to an upward swipe.
The result’s an extremely succesful killing machine with complicated weapons and protection skills all mapped to straightforward to make use of faucet and swipe gestures. It’s a lot extra enjoyable having full management of your arsenal and having the ability to make strategic selections on when and the place to fireside off your weapons or deploy a particular capacity, in comparison with numerous made-for-mobile shooters the place your ship simply auto-shoots and also you simply type of information it by way of the sport. For lack of a greater time period this looks like a “actual” shooter and never one thing dumbed down for the sake of the touchscreen.
The fight is a blast and there’s no scarcity of stuff to customise and improve your fleet of flying tanks with, and there are SO MANY superior and distinctive weapons and enemies it actually stands aside from different shooters. There’s a ton of stuff to do on this recreation, however I’m additionally discovering myself actually having fun with the story aspect of issues. Better of all is that Flying Tank is free to obtain and check out with 8 missions out there, and for those who get by way of these and like what you see there’s a few totally different choices for unlocking the complete recreation relying on for those who like additional goodies or not. Personally, I really like additional goodies, so I purchased the deluxe unlock, nevertheless it’s good there’s a less expensive choice too. In the event you like shooters and premium cell recreation experiences you possibly can’t actually go fallacious with Flying Tank.
