Destroy Gunners – Heavy Mechs, Heavy Gunnery, 3D Shoot ‘em Destruction!

by Paul Wilks Aug 16, 2011 11:55 AM – Leave your thoughts

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Destroy Gunners is the ambitions 3D shoot ‘em up from Shade Inc. You take control of a hunking great mech and proceed the blow the smithereens out of everything you encounter. As you might expect, there are stages, missions, various weapons, upgrades, bosses, and lots of destruction. Your Android is going to get very warm in your hands…

Price: Free, ~$10.48

Tested on: HTC Desire HD
Content Rating: Everyone

AndroidTapp.com Android Game Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Visually stunning graphics!
Lots of missions and stages!
Many Upgrades!
Good use of touch screen controls!

Cons

Pricey.
Needs a relatively high-end Android.
Lacks depth.

Features:

Deadly Gunners is one of those superbly beautiful games that looks awesome to play. Full 3D environments, cool robots and enemies, devastating weapons and great explosions all contribute to this incredible app. Just by looking at the video, you can pretty much tell your phone will need to be of pretty decent quality to play it, and there are plenty of comments on the Android Market who are seemingly unable to open the game.

So you fire up the game and you have a couple of options initially. ‘Score Attack’ gives you 5 minutes in a desert level to get as many points as you can, there is a boss at the end to defeat if you can. ‘Extra Play’ oddly, seems to be the main game and you progress through levels as you would expect. The level design is clever, astute and with careful places to hide and shoot from, despite you being a great big robot.

While the weapons themselves are pretty superb, I found the aim control really excellent. It gets around the touchscreen issues where you might have one of your thumbs over the area you want to fire at by including sights that are slightly removed from your thumb’s position, making it easy for you to see what you are aiming at. Very simple idea really, but many shooters fail to incorporate a good firing control. I was also impressed by the AI of the baddies. If you fly into an area and start shooting at random, many seem to move out to the sides and attack you from your flanks, others will start to fly and attack you from the air. Talking of flying your mech comes packed with a small jet pack, so if you need a boost or a big jump (which you will) the jet pack gives you that extra dimension.

What I feel the game lacks is a real sense of atmosphere. As you progress it difficult to know exactly what you are fighting for and the brutish mechs you destroy seem to have very little to them. The game doesn’t seem to have cause. While the explosions, gunfire, canon-fire, the flying, the bosses and the glorious graphics are great; you begin to wonder what the purpose is. While there are so many things to be in awe of in the game, it kind of lacks an edge- and certainly an element of addictiveness, the mindless action is perhaps a little too mindless.

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: Destroy Gunners – Gorgeous graphical detail

: Destroy Gunners – Intelligently created terrains

: Destroy Gunners – Stay in one place long enough and you will draw lots of fire

: Destroy Gunners – World of destruction

: Destroy Gunners – End of level boss

: Destroy Gunners – Bosses are usually bad news, they also move faster than you might expect

: Destroy Gunners – Sometimes better to hide a bit and pick the enemies off

: Destroy Gunners – Score attack gives you 5 minutes of destruction

: Destroy Gunners – Missisles are particularly destructive

: Destroy Gunners – Map helps you explore the levels and find more areas to obliterate

: Destroy Gunners – Sometimes they just overwhelm you

: Destroy Gunners – Results screen

: Destroy Gunners – Splash screen

: Destroy Gunners – Main menu

: Destroy Gunners – Settings

: Destroy Gunners – Help guide

Fun Factor:

The game is buckets of fun and the action-packed nature of the game play is a real thrill. The controls are pretty easy to get used to, and once you are you’ll have little difficulty despatching several barrels full of hot metal at your enemies.

Addictive:

Perhaps not as addictive as some games, but as you progress, the immersion coaxes you back gently. This can be reduced somewhat by the lack of direction the game seems to have, but for mindless explosions and fun this is a great time killer.

Graphics:

Graphics are about as good as you can get on Android currently. Very smoothly rendered detail, superb explosions within a full and comprehensive 3D environment.

Accelerometer, Vibration & Sound:

Sound is what you expect from high-calibre mech-style games; pumping industrial music soundtrack and explosions aplenty.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (4.3 out of 5)

Should you Download Destroy Gunners? Deadly Gunners is an explosive action-packed tour de force. The 3D environments, array or weapons, upgrades and giant robots are enough to lure many a gamer into this fantastic app. the full version of the game is terrifically pricey and I think you would be forgiven if you notice the price and think “What the.. ??”. The free version however is still a cracking game and well worth checking out. You are going to probably have to become somewhat besotted with these hulking great mechanoids if you are going to fork out over $10 for the full version, but I am sure some will and be very pleased with it. My recommendation is to obviously try the free version first to see how you get on, but then I think you’d be sensible enough to probably do that anyway!

Developer: SHADE Inc.

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