Monopoly Worldwide, Review

Another review for the iPhone and mobile broadband crowd!

We’ve all played Monopoly, and the unfortunate few have experienced it late into Christmas night, playing until you just couldn’t take paying anymore damn taxes. Grandma was stealing dollar bills from the bank anyway. Now we have a new way to play, grab your mobile broadband and pop to the App Store for this one.

For the few who are living under a rock, and don’t know what this classic game is about, the clue lies in the name. All players start off on one corner of the board and roll dice to make their way around ye olde city of Londonshire (except in this version, it’s around the world). The key is to buy and trade properties and build yourself a monopoly. If another player decides to “visit” (land on) your property, they have to pay out of the ass for rent. There’s also numerous sand traps and random fortunes, in the form of paying taxes, landing on chance and landing on the community chest.

You can pick from a number of little trinkets to play as, and I personally like the little car rental trinket, or taxi, whatever it is. You can be a battle ship, or shoe… Stuff like that. You can see in the screenshot that I’m a sumo. I didn’t pick that, I promise.

The Story

Another game without a story? Yeah. Unless you’re really into role play or something… You’ll have to buy your own top-hat and cane. That’s weird though.

The Graphics and Sound

The board is very clear to see and anything else is just for aesthetics really. The table you’re playing on is either outside or in a room and the graphics look pretty good. The pieces you play as have animations – they aren’t amazing, but they do the trick. The music will make you feel like you’re in a really bad Jazz club, so I turned it off instantly, any of the other sounds are fine though. There isn’t a vast amount of sounds when all you’re doing is rolling a dice.

The Controls

To roll the dice, you’re going to be shaking your iPhone; when you stop they get thrown onto the board and roll about a bit (sadly it’s difficult to cup your hands around the iPhone and blow on it for luck). It’s a very simple and effective way to roll without fiddling around with the buttons. The buttons themselves give me a headache sometimes, because they’re right next to the board – making it easy to hit and be forced to zoom into a property instead.

The Features

• Play as 8 pieces – The Sumo, Football, Car/Taxi, Penguin, Statue, Dolls, Baseball glove and Windmill
• Three difficulty levels – Easy, Medium and Hard. Easy it’s a joke to play, AI will let you buy anything he buys for $1 profit. Don’t bother with this mode.
• Opponents  – Up to 3 Human or AI players. The game is playable over WiFi.
• 5 Surroundings – Japanese Room, English pub, Cabin, Decking and a House
• Rules – Change any of the house rules, this can be kinda fun, or horrible if you change it so much that the computer gets lucky once and can instantly make a monopoly.
• Music – Jazz and Lounge music. Horrible music.
• Did you know? – When you land on certain places in the world, the game will present you with trivia about that place, it doesn’t do it too often though.

Conclusion

This is a pretty good port from the physical to the non-physical. I would have liked the option to play different types of Monopoly (for example, being able to switch back to the classic theme from the “Around the World” theme), but that’s not really a deal breaker.

If you liked the original Monopoly and would like an easy way to play it on the go, grab this! If you want to play with friends, I would suggest sticking to the board game.

Spotify Music catalogue updated with 42,516 tracks

Spotify and mobile broadband users! More tracks added to Spotify today, hurrah! Lemme know if you find anything cool.

Music catalogue updated with 42,516 tracks

October 22, 2009, 08:09

Another music update this morning to let you know about. We added 3,190 albums and singles to the catalogue, in total 42,516 new tracks are now available.

A few highlights includes:

• Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know by Mum
• Year In The Kingdom by J. Tillman

Have a look at the Google doc for the full listing of all the releases. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

Let us know what gems you find in this update.

Brain Challenge, Forethought to Buying

I was a big fan of the DS brain training games, they were good fun and it was cool to see how I was progressing, but I don’t have my DS anymore. If you don’t know what the game is, you complete tests and challenges to assess and develop different parts of the brain and given results afterwards. It’s a good way to keep an active mind.

So now I have an iPhone and mobile broadband, why not try to find an alternative to the DS version?

Enter ‘Brain Challenge‘. First thing: this isn’t a review or a slam, these are my ponderings and thoughts on if I should buy the game. I’ve already tried the demo version, and that was surprisingly fun.

Reviews though… I always read reviews. If you search for a review in Google, you’re most likely to find a well read blog or gaming site at the top of the results – they don’t really mention the problems presented by “normal” people though, at least not from what I can see.

The first and foremost problem that I see is that the game crashes a lot and loses data. A huge amount of people have reviewed via the App Store, and there is at least one or two comments per page about the game crashing to the springboard – these complaints seemed to be unanswered too, at least from what I can tell. I’m not sure why it would be crashing for some people and not others… Perhaps some people haven’t updated their Firmware? I’m willing to say ‘Fine, all games crash for at least someone‘, but the fact that the people who it has crashed for aren’t being helped puts me off.

Secondly, I saw two reviews on the app store yesterday that have since been removed (unless I am just going really blind). Both were referring to the scoring system; one was a guy saying that the results you get are pre-programmed and the other being a couple who said the same thing. The first guy didn’t really present any kind of evidence, so I ignored that review. The couple who reviewed said that for a few weeks of both using it, their results had been exactly the same every day. This isn’t evidence set in stone, as I might be a coincidence, or they might have been helping each other, but it still sounds a little weird.

Does anyone else have these problems? Is it worth risking the (admittedly small amount of) money if it’s just going to crash? I’ll probably wait a little while, and if I don’t find any advice within a few days, I’ll give it a go. Taking one for the team! I probably won’t have time tonight, because I want to write about car rental/travel advice on my other blog… But maybe next week, so that hopefully someone will pick this up.

Pros and Cons of Jailbreaking your iPhone

My jailbroken phone

The Apple store is full of goodies, from the simplest games to the app made by the car rental companies to lock your car from anywhere, but does it have everything?

The answer for most people is a very big ‘No.’ There are many useful features which aren’t provided by Apple through the default iPhone firmware or as an add-on through the App Store.

So, if you’re asking yourself ‘Should I jailbreak my iPhone?’, or even if you’re interested in finding out about Jailbreaking, read on.

First off, what exactly is jailbreaking?

Jailbreaking essentially removes the limitations of your iPhone software. The iPhone comes pre-set so that you can’t put anything onto your phone that Apple doesn’t like… Basically, this would be like buying a laptop running Windows to find out you can’t install anything unless Microsoft looks at it first and evaluates if they want you to use it or not.  Or like buying a burger and finding out you can’t put ketchup on or garnish it without asking the guy who grilled it, except burgers don’t have a warranty. Note that jailbreaking is not unlocking your phone to be able to use any carrier, although it is part of the process to do this.

So what are the pros and cons?

Changing the software on your iPhone can have its good sides and bad sides, I see a lot of advocates for jailbreaking say there are no cons, when of course, there are.

Pros

• New app store – In in addition to still being able to use Apple’s App Store, you’ll now have a new App Store full of hundreds of free apps. I’m using Cydia, but there are a few different ones.
• Themes – If you take a look at my screenshot, you can see that it now has a theme, no more boring springboard! There’s a huge amount of themes available for use and you can even use multiple themes at once, mixing and matching is easy. If you like the look of the theme from my screenshot, you can find it here. To change your themes you will have to use ‘WinterBoard’ from Cydia.
• Video recording – Although the iPhone is a very up to date and modern phone, it doesn’t support video recording by default. If you install ‘Cycorder’ from Cydia, you’ll now be able to record videos using your camera. I would expect to see this coming in an official release from Apple soon though.
• Minimise/Minimize apps - This is one of my favourite things about jailbreaking the iPhone. Using an app called ‘Backgrounder’, you’ll now be able to do things like minimizing Spotify and games without losing their data or sound. This means you don’t have to quit a game to read your text messages and you can listen to Spotify while you browse Safari or any other app.
• Full control - Using apps like ‘SBSettings’ from Cydia, you’ll have full control over your phone. What does this mean? With the flick of a switch you can choose to turn individual features off:, 3G, Bluetooth, Rotation, WiFi and SHH. You can also easily adjust the brightness of the screen and see which processes are running in the background of your phone (and kill them if you need to free up some memory).
• More icons on springboard/dock - The default iPhone has 4 spaces on the dock and 4 columns of apps on the springboard. Using ‘Five Icon Dock’ and ‘Five-Column Springboard’, you’ll have even more space for your apps and folders. Again, you can see this in the screenshot.
• Games – There are tons of free games on Cydia, but the most impressive thing is the NES emulator. Play classic roms on your iPhone!
• Direct access – Using SSH you can have direct access to your phone from your PC, upload ringtones and anything else into your phone.
• “Desktop like” lock screen – One thing a lot of people don’t like is having no desktop, just a list of apps. With certain apps you can edit your lock screen to show things like the time, weather, unread emails, texts and calendar appointments without even unlocking your phone.
• Easy to jailbreak – You don’t have to smash open your iPhone and add 7 different chips then sellotape it back together for it to work (hello modded Xbox). It’s as simple as plugging into iTunes and pressing a few buttons (because that’s what you have to do).
• Categorise/Categorize your springboard – If you don’t want a cluttered screen, you can create folders on your springboard to easily categorise your apps into. I’m not sure which app is best for this at the moment, but I know that you can do it.
• Unlock your carrier – Until very recently, all phones in the UK were tied down to o2, now that the iPhone is open to new companies you might want to unlock yourself from o2; jailbreaking is part of that process.
• Lots more – There are many apps that I haven’t even tried, or looked at. The possibilities are pretty endless when it comes to 3rd party apps.

Cons

• Warranty - Applying a jailbreak to your phone will void your software guarantee but not your hardware guarantee. Either way, you can use an app to back up your jailbreak and reset your phone to factory settings if you need to get your phone looked at.
• Bricking your iPhone – There is a very rare chance that jailbreaking might just turn your phone into a brick, meaning that it kicks the bucket. No fixing it. You should be able to get a replacement from Apple, but you’ll have lost all the data on your phone – so back it all up before you jailbreak.
• 3rd party apps – There’s always a chance that 3rd party software could be corrupt or contain a virus. Cydia signs apps that are free of this, so be careful when installing things on your phone. You shoud be fine, as long as you make sure it’s signed. Again, make sure to back up!
• Apple – Apple does not support jailbreaking. Like I said, make sure you reset your phone to factory settings if you’re asking them to fix it etc
• Updating Firmware – Apple are constantly battling jailbreakers and when they release new firmware, they will most likely have patched over the previous firmwares exploited point (the bit that allows us to over ride the software and do whatever we want). Jailbreakers take a while to find a new way in, so you will have to wait longer than every body else to use the new software.

Now that you’ve read this, only you can figure out if you should jailbreak. You might be wondering ‘Do you think that the pros outweigh the cons?’ Yes. I do. Jailbreaking the iPhone increases its usefulness 10 fold, but do remember that it isn’t essential to jail break your iPhone. As a mobile broadband user, and iPhone user, jailbreaking the iPhone is very refreshing.

If you read this and have something to add to the pros and cons sections, or if you want to ask questions about jailbreaking, feel free to comment. I can also take screenshots of any of the apps, if anyone wants to see them.

For those who want to know how to jailbreak 3.1.2 firmware, I followed this guide: Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 Firmware with blackra1n

Firefox for the iPhone?

That’s enough Spotify news for now. Back to reviews, car rentals and gaming! Let’s take a look at some interesting iPhone info here.

A few days ago, the idea of Firefox coming to the iPhone saw a glimpse of hope from Mozilla and mobile broadband fans everywhere, as Om Malik explains here:

Earlier today when I interviewed Mozilla CEO John Lilly onstage at the Play conference, an annual confab organized by the students of the Haas School of Business at the University of Berkeley, he hinted that the company was going to launch a brand new application for the iPhone, though he declined to reveal any details. “Mozilla will release an app to the iPhone App Store in the next few weeks,” Lilly said. “It’ll surprise people.”

Could we finally be seeing a replacement for Safari? Or is Om Malik correct in thinking it could be Weave:

Later, I sat around gabbing with Lilly and Jay Sullivan, Mozilla’s VP of Mobile, talking about Weave and the Awesome Bar, which is a way to get access to all your browsing history and bookmarks by just typing them in the URL bar on your browser. And while we were talking about Weave, I asked them if it was going to be part of this new, mysterious iPhone app. Lilly and Sullivan smiled and remained silent. Interestingly, they didn’t correct me.

Sounds interesting, but would Weave sync with Safari? I have no idea. It would be awesome to be able to sync the iPhone browser to Firefox though. We’ll have to sit tight for now.

Spotify Search

Again, taking a break from reviews, car rental/travel info and game type posts, to post my random Spotify findings.

This ones a little simpler, and for Mozilla users only (if you’re using Internet Explorer, I suggest Firefox).

This’ll have endless use if you search around the net for stuff to listen to a lot, and end up copy pasting a lot into Spotify.

All you have to do is download the Firefox add-on: Spotify Search

Now all you have to do is right click an artist, and Spotify will be opened with that artist in the search field, no copy and pasting needed.

Again, doesn’t work with mobile broadband Spotify, simply because the URI isn’t used in the phone app.

If you are using Linux, you must follow this guide (http://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/wine/#Opening_spotify_URIs_from_browsers)

Using bookmarklets you can get a similar functionality without installing this add-on. To try this, create a bookmark in your “Bookmarks Toolbar” and name it e.g. “Artist search” and in the “Location”-field paste something like this:
javascript:location=’spotify:search:artist:’+'”‘+window.content.getSelection()+’”‘
Now you should be able to perform a Spotify search by highlighting an artist name and clicking on this bookmark.

Toastify, Spotify Add On

More Spotify stuff? Yep. I’ve been meaning to write about a few of these nifty things for a while, but never had the time to do so.

This time I’d like to bring you Toastify. Again, sorry mobile broadband users, this is another thing that won’t work for us on our smart phones.

You’re probably wondering what Toastify is, and I hate to tell you this… But, no. It doesn’t enable your toaster to play Spotify, although that does remind me of the dancing toaster from Ghost Busters. Feel free to leave if you thought you were going to find some kind of self powering, dancing toaster.

Anyway, on to what it really does: Toastify is an open source application that improves Spotify. The app does this by offering two things:

• Hotkeys – Control Spotify from any other application, including things like games. Just hi-jacked a car rental in GTA and want to play faster music? Skip tracks from in-game! The default hot keys:
  • Ctrl Alt Up = Play/Pause
  • Ctrl Alt Down = Stop
  • Ctrl Alt Right = Next track
  • Ctrl Alt Left = Previous track
  • Ctrl Alt M = Mute on/off
  • Ctrl Alt Page Up = Volume up (expirimental support)
  • Ctrl Alt Page Down = Volume down (expirimental support)
  • Ctrl Alt Space = Show toast
  • Ctrl Alt S = Show Spotify
  • Ctrl Alt C = Copy track information to clipboard New!
• “Toast” popups – These are the sort of pop ups you get when using MSN Messenger, a small pop up above the task bar will show you what song is playing when it first starts.

SpotifiTunes – All Your iTunes Tracks on Spotify

To take a break from reviews, travel info for things like car rental and games, I thought it might be time to have a quick post about Spotify! The latest news hasn’t been too exciting; allowing us to buy tracks, a deal with 3 and lots of new songs. But what about those people who are new to Spotify?

You’ve just found Spotify, or maybe only heard about it. You’ll ‘if’ and ‘but’ for a few minutes about iTunes, until you realise it might be time to move on over to Spotify.

One of your ponderings might very well have been a good counterpoint to moving over though.

If you’re into music and are like me, you might have spent an inhuman amount of money and time on and with iTunes. Now it’s time to re-make your whole library on Spotify. Of course, this means that you’ll not only have to find the name of every song in your iTunes’ library, but you also have to type them all into Spotify, find them and then add them to playlists.

This is where SpotifiTunes comes in. Nope, it isn’t what would happen if iTunes and Spotify got busy with each other, it’s a much easier way to move from iTunes to Spotify. This involves uploading a file that contains the names of all your songs (automatically made by iTunes) and getting a page with links to all the search terms you’ll need. Much less typing, much more music.

The process is simple, and mostly painless:

1. Find your iTunes’ Music Library XML file, it can usually be found here:
   • Windows: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music Library.xml
   • Mac: /Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml
2. Upload the XML file at: http://spotifitunes.com/
3. The site will then return a list of all your songs, artists and albums with helpful links to a Spotify search of their names. For example: http://spotifitunes.com/marks
4. Click the links to find all of  your artists and songs.

You can also sign up to the site to access these extra features:

• Edit your library’s permalink
• Make your library private
• Delete your library
• Claim a library that you have already uploaded
• Adding/deleting artists from your library (coming soon)
• Editing artist links from Spotify searches to real links to the artist (coming soon)

SpotifiTunes playlist. Click for bigger

If you prefer using the mobile broadband version of Spotify, I’ve just had a look and you’re unable to choose a file to upload in Safari. The URL to open Spotify also doesn’t work. You can, however, see your SpotifiTunes’ playlists.

Fling!, Review

Another review for you iPhone/mobile broadband users!

I’m going to be taking a look at Fling! today. I was playing it for a while last night and got pretty far into some of the modes. I haven’t completed it yet, as it can be quite time consuming. I figure that I have seen all there is to see though, so here I am.

I want to write about Zenonia at some point, but I still haven’t completed it (though I’ll give it a go tonight if I have any time).

Fling! is a puzzle game bought to us by the developer who originally  brought us Fuzzle. No, I hadn’t heard of it either. Taking a look now though, it seems like it might be fun to try out.

You have to flick these little furry horrors up, down, left and right so that they roll into each other, this results in the furball that is getting rolled into being knocked off of the screen. You have to do this until only one of the furballs remain on the screen, it doesn’t matter which one, but every puzzle has a unique solution. In theory it sounds pretty simple, but it can get pretty difficult as you go along. One interesting thing about the game is that you’re not likely to get a puzzle you’ve played before.

The Story

There’s no story at all, and that isn’t too surprising considering that it’s a puzzle/arcade type game. But look at those things, look at their eyes.

They freak me out.

I think that they probably have some kind of psychotic back story which includes a car rental, a zebra crossing and some oiled midgets. I seriously get this vibe, and now you will too. You’re welcome.

Remember, when you stare into the void, the void stares back into you.

The Graphics and Sound

I can’t really flaw the graphics and sound. The little furballs are pretty detailed, as is the board you play on and the UI. Everything is really easy to see on the UI too. It would maybe have been nice to see more animations from the fluffballs, but their rolling animation is fun enough. As for the sounds, I thought they fit pretty well, and the music wasn’t annoying at all. You can also integrate your iPod music into the game, which is pretty cool if you’d rather listen to that.

The Controls

The controls are easy to use, and non-intrusive. To flick the furballs into each other, all you have to do is move your finger slightly over them in the direction you want them to go (or flick them but… I wouldn’t flick your iPhone screen too much.) They have been 100% responsive for me and have gone in the right direction every time. The fact that the controls are so easy to use makes it feel like you’re actually flicking/moving them instead of pressing a button/screen.

The Features

Game Modes

1. Free Play – This mode allows you to play at a casual pace while the game tracks puzzles that you have and haven’t completed. This allows you to go back to puzzles that you have beaten to try and beat your time, or to puzzles that you haven’t beaten to give them another go.
2. Arcade - Solve puzzles on a ticking clock. How many can you solve before the timer runs out? The further you get, the harder the puzzles get. You could call this the ‘survival mode’ of puzzle games.
3. Challenge – Solve puzzles to progress to new levels. You’ll have multiple puzzles per level and if you run out of time, you have to restart the level. Remember that the puzzles are random (apparently there’s 10,000) and you can’t easily get through a failed level by remembering solutions.

Other Key Features

1. Hints – Stuck on a level? You get a limited amount of hints per level. Choose where to use them wisely, otherwise, using a hint on an easy level will give you limited options when you get to a much harder puzzle
2. Music – Music that automatically turns its self off if your iPod is playing music.
3. High Scores – Local and global high scores for arcade mode
4. Saving – Automatic saving. Need to close the app to do something else quickly? You’ll be brought back to the exact place you left off when you closed the app.
5. Undo – Made the wrong move? Unlimited undo means you can quickly and easily get back to the start of the puzzle or even undo moves one by one.
6. Difficulty – 19 levels of difficulty.

Conclusion

Overall, I enjoy this game. It’s worth buying if you’re into puzzles, there’s no doubt about that. If you’re not into puzzles, give the demo a go anyway, you might still like it. It’s a thinking mans game, but an unusually fun one

No promising you won’t throw your phone across the room when you miss completing a challenge level by one move and have to start the whole level again (I did this, minus the throw rage), but that’s a given. The price is stupidly low at the moment, so get it while you can. Beware, you may get addicted.

iDracula, Review

Here’s my view on iDracula for you iPhone mobile broadband users out there.

Alright, so it doesn’t have the most imaginative name in the world, but what’s the game about? Internet Dracula?

The game is (sort of) an overhead shooter, and nothing short of it. You’ll be pitted against a hell of a lot (pun not intended) of monsters and it’s up to you how many you take back to hell with you!

So, let’s take a bit of a more in-depth look.

The Story

Sadly, the only type of story the game has is the introduction:

You are the hunter. Vampire hunter. Well, not quite. In fact, you are being hunted. Or you’re just trying to survive a little more against the horde of Vampires, Werewolves, Witches and Dracula himself.

Can you stand the night? iDracula is an intense survival shooter – the most intense game in the App Store. You begin with a simple gun and slow monsters, but as the time passes, they grow stronger and faster, dropping better weapons. You will also be able to gain “perks”, as you earn enough experience.

You won’t find anything after that. I thought this was a shame, because a story mode with an interesting plot would have made up for some of the repetitiveness later in the game.

The Graphics and Sound

The graphics are actually pretty good for the iPhone and the animation is quite fluid. The main character does seem to stand a bit weirdly with some of the guns, but maybe he likes to stand like that, who am I to question his preferences? I’m happy with the way he stands while firing the chain gun anyway. One thing that might get on your nerves is the music, just one song played over and over, apart from that the sound is pretty good: enemies and weapons sound believable.

The Controls

The controls are touch screen; the movement keys are on the bottom left of the screen while the aiming keys on the bottom right – the main problem with this control interface is that if your character or any of the monsters walk under it, you can’t see them due to your thumbs being over that part of the screen. Something like not being able to see what’s attacking you almost certainly ends in death if you’re quite far into survival mode. Another thing that annoyed me is not being able to aim without shooting.

The Features

Maps

There are only three maps, all of them quite small and the monsters which spawn differ between each area:

1. Grave Park – This is exactly what it sounds like, a graveyard/park type area (First screenshot).
2. Frozen Earth – Snowy type area, even has the fallen autumn leaves (Last screenshot)!
3. Castle Hall – This is the hall of a mean looking castle… What can I say other than… Very red(Second screenshot).

Game Modes

1. Survival – You’ll start off with a handgun and very little opposition. This is a good time to get used to the controls and map. As the mode carries on you’ll get more perks, drops and weapons from dead monsters. The monsters themselves will get stronger and faster, not to mention they’ll multiply like rabbits. This is a you or them type situation, the bus isn’t coming to get you and the car rental is stuck in traffic, you’re in this mode until you bite the dust.
2. Super Survival - Same as survival but with additional drops, like super speed and bombs.
3. Wave Attack – Somewhat like survival, except enemies drop money. You’ll then have some time to buy weapons, ammo and health before starting the next wave of enemies.
4. Rush - Choose your weapon, you’re about to be dropped straight into a ton of enemies. This is like survival mode except… Skipping the build up.

Weapons

1. Handgun
2. Rifle
3. Crossbow
4. Grenade
5. Launcher
6. Machine Gun
7. Blade Ripper
8. Flamethrower
9. BFG - Big Fucking Gun? I prefer Big Friendly Giant.

“Perks”

1. Extra Health – This gives you 30% more HP
2. Crossbow Master – Adds an incredible amount of power to the crossbow, and also makes it shoot in 3 directions.
3. Power Striker – Your guns push back enemies further.
4. Bloodlust – The more HP you lose, the more damage you do.
5. Immortality – Makes you immortal for 20 seconds… but then kills you.
6. Telekinesis – Drags power ups dropped by enemies towards you.
7. New Weapon – Gives you a weapon which is more powerful than the ones you’re already holding, if there is one.
8. Ninja – Gives you a higher chance to dodge attacks (40% or 50%, I’ll have to confirm which one). I can’t say I’ve noticed my character ever dodging any attacks, even with this perk active.
9. Panic – The more HP you lose, the faster you reload.
10. Sniper – Increases the range of your weapons.
11. Bonus finder – Enemies drop more power ups and items.
12. Field Runner – Movement speed is increased.
13. Blood Sacrifice – All enemies in your line of sight will die at the cost of half of your remaining HP.
14. Reloader – Increases the reloading speed of all weapons
15. Score Master – Doubles any score points you receive after using it. This is useful for getting additional perks, as they’re given on random intervals of your score.
16. Bandage – Full heal.

Conclusion

The game contains a small handful of maps and game modes, but plenty of weapons and things to shoot with them. There is also a perk system which lets you choose from 4 random “upgrades” at intervals throughout the game. This adds a little to the usual shoot ‘em up theme.

My overall conclusion is that the game is pretty fun. Great to play for ten minutes if you have nothing else to do, after that though, it can become pretty repetitive. It’s worth a buy just for a fun play now and then though, and if don’t get bored, even better. Worth the price? I’d say so.