Galaxy On Fire 2 HD - IPhone 5c

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.

FINAL SCORE!

That moment you have all been waiting for the 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!