I saw this game on Google Play based on the recent movie and was surprised that it cost $5! After reading a couple of reviews, it seemed to be a good premium game with no in-app purchases. That was promising, and the fact that it had a comic book license was pretty good too. After a few weeks, it dropped in price to $3 and I spent some Amazon Coins on the game.

Sadly, the gameplay is pretty poor. You control up to four heroes, and attempt to kill waves of attackers. Usually the attackers come in groups of one or two, so given that you have four heros, it’s not tough work. And to make it even easier, your heroes have special abilities which you can activate by pressing buttons at the top of the screen. Rather than being difficult, it is a bit like finger spaghetti trying to move your heroes around the screen, target enemies and cast spells.

That’s not good nor fun, so I found a cheap way to win. Leave 3 of your heroes sitting aimlessly, stack one range unit with as much damage as possible, and then one-hit-kill all your enemies. This works pretty much the entire game until the difficulty ramps up suddenly. At that point, since you haven’t invested any time in learning the game (and why would you if there is such a cheap hack), it gets entirely too difficult. Of course I found another hack. There’s one power which is basically invincibility. You can pretty much keep casting that, alternating with juggles to kill anyone (including the final boss),

So I was fooled by a couple of good reviews, and this game actually sucks. I wouldn’t play it if it was free. It’s also disappointing that apparently the gameplay is the same as Battlehearts, which is a game that I eventually did want to play. I guess I will pass on that one too now.

The worse part is that there are still a lot of bugs. Here’s a couple:

• There’s a “star” concept to each level where you can replay each level and earn up to 3 “stars”. The only criteria seems to be that you have to win the level. That’s great, except your second and third star don’t unlock after you beat the level the second (or third time). They seem to unlock on some weird schedule
• Loading Screens Everywhere
• Arena mode is supposed to be more fun than the story. Except the game lags every few seconds when playing Arena. Makes it hard to respond, move units or attack with the lag. It’s especially weird since the game is offline
• There are achievements to move things along, except they are dumb. “Defeat 7 of this type of unit”. Once you’re done that one, you get another one that is “Defeat 5 of that same type of unit”.
• the XP meter at the end of levels is set to increment at a constant pace. On the earlier levels, this takes a few seconds. On the later levels, it takes a few minutes. And there’s no way to speed this up

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: android, games