Welcome back to Hiram Abiff's Game Shows' Review Blog! Today
we have a first for us here at the studio! An APP! That's right we are
reviewing an app at the request of a long time friend. I was sceptical, more than
usual, at first, I mean come on its an freaken app. But when I downloaded
GOF2-HD for the IPhone 5c I was impressed. The last cell phone game I played
was Brick Breaker. :D Not really but close enough. Anyway as always we rate on
four main things here:
Gameplay
- How does it play?
Graphics
- 1987 or 2014? (Just to elaborate for that nasty gram someone sent me, did the
game come out in 2014 and look like a 1987
game by accident? Retro games aside.)
Sound -
Vibrant or White Noise?
Lasting
Appeal - Wham Bam Thank Ya Ma'am, or REPLAY!
Each section will be rated between 1 or 5 stars, 5 being the
best ever (good luck devs!) and 1 being another download and delete.
Gameplay
So I am roughly 4 main missions into GOF2, and I am super
impressed. The galaxy is surprisingly expansive, it kind of reminds me of a
single player EVE. Your character Max is time warped into the future after a
fight with some pirates, with no money or a ship you have to restart your ace pilot
career from the ground up.
Don't be too discouraged, mining is easy once you get the
hang of it. I mined for about three hours to avoid the Pay to Win option of the
game. Now do not get me wrong the in game store is nice, but us writers and
reviewers here are broker then all holy hell. So after I was able to amass some
credits I began doing a mission or two to get out of the slum system I was in.
After a few missions I was working for my old boss's again, killing pirates and
fighting some weird blue Void creatures. I won't go into this too much, don't want
to spoil it!
However some downfalls to the amazing app, is the money,
without purchasing in game credits, mining can be a long drawn out process at
first. Your starter ship holds 25t of ore, debris, rock, etc. Basic ore sells
for around $85 a ton, the second ship costs about $160k, meaning you have to
get approximately 76 full loads of ore rank your ship up, or do some missions.
Overall I give the gameplay a 3.9/5.
Graphics
Wow. That about sums the graphics up. For a IPhone App I was
impressed. That's not to say it does not have its kinks and quirks. The
graphics are advanced from most space apps I have found on the market, however
this is the HD version so that is kind of expected. The character portraits
were blah, and the subtitles for the Void, mostly the same repeated letters
over and over again. For this reason, 4/5
is in order.
Sound
I was impressed again with the sound quality even shooting
it though a bluetooth it was rather nice. Smooth sounds, not to many kinks I
could tell from. However the down side of the epic explosions is the voiceovers,
again dull and not interesting. Voiceovers for me at least make the game, if I
am following a character through an epic journey, I'd prefer if he sounded
normal. But what do I know right? 3.8/5.
Lasting Appeal
I have given this careful consideration and thought. This is
a truly epic game for a phone, yes, but does it have what it takes to use up
680MB on my phone. The answer is, drum roll please. 
YES! This makes a perfect game for either
combat style players, or people who want to mine and kill some time at the doctor's
office, work, or what have you. Not to say someone may not start a Galaxy on
Fire Cult and dress up in black robes and worship this game, for me and my colleagues
this is a decent game to keep on your phone! 4.5/5.
YES! This makes a perfect game for either
combat style players, or people who want to mine and kill some time at the doctor's
office, work, or what have you. Not to say someone may not start a Galaxy on
Fire Cult and dress up in black robes and worship this game, for me and my colleagues
this is a decent game to keep on your phone! 4.5/5.
FINAL SCORE!
That moment you have all been waiting for t
he FINAL SCORE!
Since we already used a drum roll how about some trumpets? 4.05
he FINAL SCORE!
Since we already used a drum roll how about some trumpets? 4.05
Not quite a perfect score, but closer than most! This game
is a MUST TRY for any Sci Fi or is it SyFy now nut! It compiles everything you
need to kill a few hours here and there, no power? Fly, Mine, Shoot, Kill! Congratulations
to the Development team for releasing such a nice game!
Check out GoF2 in the App Store or on Steam today!
