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Against The Fire! (iPhone)
Sep 24th
This is getting really quite tricky now. Several runs are needed to learn the layout of the level and where the power-ups are, so I can find the citizens and enough oxygen to make it through the level without dying.
It did initially seem like a game I’d polish off quite quickly, but I’m only up to level twenty-four of fifty, so I dread to think what later levels are like.
It’s good stuff.
Against The Fire! (iPhone)
Sep 21st
Despite some stiff competition from some excellent games, Against The Fire! walks away with the award for Most-Played Game of the weekend.
It’s another twin stick shooter from the Alive 4-ever team, but I think I prefer it.
Instead of arenas, you have increasingly complex levels, with rooms and corridors and dead ends.
Instead of zombies, you fight cute little fireballs.
Every mission is an escort mission. You have to find one or more citizens trapped in a burning building and lead them to safety. Job done, you move on to the next level. There aren’t any experience points or upgrades or anything like that, which means no grinding of existing levels just to survive. (Though can always go back and play old levels for a better score, should you wish.)
Not that it’s an easy game. It starts off that way, but I’m about half-way through now and am having to try levels multiple times, working out the best routes and desperately trying to protect the citizens on the walk back to the safety zone.
It’s colourful, great fun and the controls have never once been an issue. It won’t last forever – as I said, I’m nearing the half-way point already – but it’s definitely not a short game and it costs a mere 59p.
