Battle Blaster from little guy games places you in the shoes of a competitive combatant. Why you’re there one can only guess at. But you have to beat all of the others and win the tournament so presumably it’s a money thing or perhaps a revenge thing?

To accomplish you task you have to fight from opposite sides of a small crevasse using only assortment of weapons which include a quick shot, a power shot and a special attack. To move you have to place your finger behind your character and to the left or the right. To shoot you either tap in front of them, on them or slide toward your opponent and to block is a backward slide.

The controls can be frustrating at times as movement is generally slow and the response time to react is even slower. But aside from that the game isn’t all that bad. Nor is it very difficult except on the highest difficulty. But there is some small amount of strategy to the game that includes not only being quick but keeping on the move and firing an assortment of attacks at your opponent to both counter and keep them off guard.

The graphics are decent for a sort-of-side-scrolling fighter and there are two ways to play campaign and quickplay. There’s also head-to-head multiplayer which sees you and a friend using your respective sides of the phone simultaneously and dueling in real time.

The sounds aren’t amazing and playing the game with or without sound made little difference. Of course it’s slightly more engrossing with the sound as one would expect.

Overall, it’s not an outstanding game in that it wasn’t really so interesting that it kept me wanting to come back for more and there’s a limited number of characters to unlock. Though I guess that one might unlock them and play through the tournament as each one if you enjoyed the game.

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