TouchArcade Sport of the Week: ‘Flying Tank’ – TouchArcade

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 sport from Hexage launch this week known as Flying Tank, and much more delighted that that is one more significantly good sport 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 form of frolicked within the sky doing their very own factor, and people simply form of saved doing their very own factor as properly. Slowly although, the aliens started consuming the planet’s sources and taking on, and because the people lived alongside them for thus lengthy they weren’t actually well-equipped to combat them off.

Their resolution was to simply… nuke the entire planet, mainly. And let me inform you, that did NOT go as deliberate. The aliens nonetheless dominated supreme, humanity was nearly fully worn out within the course of, and people people who did survive have splintered off into varied factions. You, along 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 sport that was designed extremely properly for the touchscreen. Default controls have your ship–er, tank–following your finger, however relative contact is offered within the choices and it’s my desire. You hearth your important gun by tapping the display screen or holding right down to rapid-fire, launch your particular weapon with a swipe to the suitable, and drop a bomb by swiping down. Sure, there are floor enemies along with airborne ones. You even have one other particular capability, sometimes a defend, mapped to an upward swipe.

The result’s an extremely succesful killing machine with advanced weapons and protection talents 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 with the ability to make strategic choices on when and the place to fireside off your weapons or deploy a particular capability, in comparison with numerous made-for-mobile shooters the place your ship simply auto-shoots and also you simply form of information it by the sport. For lack of a greater time period this appears 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 sport, 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 take a look at with 8 missions accessible, and for those who get by these and like what you see there’s a few totally different choices for unlocking the total sport relying on for those who like additional goodies or not. Personally, I really like additional goodies, so I purchased the deluxe unlock, but it surely’s good there’s a less expensive choice too. Should you like shooters and premium cell sport experiences you possibly can’t actually go flawed with Flying Tank.