Anyway, it’s a flying game. You’re a plane, you have to shoot down other planes. And by “planes” I mean “dots that your lock-on system tells you are planes”. And by “shoot down” I mean “hit the missiles button as soon as your lock-on system makes a long beeping sound”.

So it’s really just about tracking down your enemies before letting the lock-on system do its thing. And by “tracking down your enemies” I mean “tilt your iPhone to follow an arrow until the lock-on system says you’re looking at an enemy plane”.

So far, after five or so missions, it’s either incredibly easy and you just lock on and shoot down targets within seconds, or it’s impossible and the arrow to your target keeps moving around and you can never find the bugger and then you die.

This is not a problem with the game itself, I don’t think. It’s just that I have never been able to track targets in 3D space when I’ve got full 3D movement. Games with planes in them are not for me – but this was only 59p and it got great reviews from people who like these sort of games and it looks really very nice… and I have been enjoying it after a fashion. More so in this little lunchtime session than I did over the weekend, actually. It may have started to click, possibly.

For the record, there’s also a big online component that I haven’t dared try.