Slug Wars is all about gaining ground and getting your slugs to the opponents home side of the screen. To do that you’ll need some strategy and have to use the slugs available to you. Oddly, this game came in at the same time as some very similar games did so it must be gain ground month on the App Store.

Starting out you have a standard infantry slug and a tank snails. Infantry can only attack directly in front of them. Tanks can attack two places, so they can shoot over one of your units to attack. There are three ’tracks’ or attack lines (top, middle, bottom) and you have to basically make your way through the tracks by eliminating the opposition quicker than they eliminate you.

As you proceed through the campaign you will receive more units. First is the A-salt Slug who can dust an opponent into a pile of slime in an instant with his salt shaker. After that is the Speedy machine gun snail who is quite fast and can deal out some quick damage. Then you get the Artillery Snail, sort of like a garden Howitzer then finally, super death slug who has a plastic cup-sized dose of salt which can wipe out all three lines.

The graphics and sounds are cool. I love the "Sluganese" they speak and at times some of it sounds like Czech to me. Why make a language when we clearly couldn’t understand what they are saying anyway right? Well you can understand some of it as the A-salt slugs are basically kamikaze because they get taken out with the opponent from salt splash. So they yell Bonzai!

The things about the game I didn’t like are the lack of challenge and the lack of level variation. I have yet to lose a single match or even allow an enemy across my home line on all three difficulties. The levels are always the exact same thing, three lines. There’s never a fourth line, there’s never crossing lines or other variations that could have added some serious challenge. But as with all iPhone apps it could be included in an update later.

Overall, the game is fun and interesting. It’s not so challenging that you’ll have hours of enjoyment. But they did manage to include two-person head-to-head where each takes control of a side of the iPhone and tries to best their friend and, pardon the pun, slug it out (also the name of the mode).