Windows Phone Game Review: BlastCannon

BlastCannon for Windows Phone

Here'southward a fun Windows Phone game to laissez passer the with. BlastCannon is a simple, yet challenging game that has you defending your base of operations from falling asteroids.

BlastCannon has a simple, minimalistic design and game play but as y'all progress through the various gaming levels, the pace of the game picks upwards. Information technology may not have flashy graphics or complex controls but BlastCannon is a challenging, entertaining game for your Windows Telephone.

The game is but designed with the primary carte du jour offering options to start/resume games, access your playing stats, tweak the settings and view the credits. Settings encompass your color theme, audio options, and immigration your stats.

BlastCannon Menus

BlastCannon'southward game play is equally as unproblematic. Y'all accept your cannon turret which represents your base and to the correct y'all have 2 bar level indicators for your bonus items and overall life. As yous earn bonus items or have hits from asteroids, these bars will slowly deplete. In the lower left corner is your score and current level.

Every bit the asteroids fall towards your base, y'all shoot at them to deflect their form abroad from hitting your base of operations. But tap the screen in the direction you wish to burn and as you strike the asteroid, the form slowly changes. Proceed in mind y'all don't accept to shoot the asteroid off the top of the screen. Yous simply need to divert it's path abroad from your base of operations.

BlastCannon Game View

In addition to the asteroids, bonus items volition autumn from the sky. Shoot them off the screen and you lot'll earn that bonus. Bonuses include items that increase your fire power or shields your base of operations for a limited time.

As you progress through the levels, the asteroids begin to autumn in greater numbers. The game has a overnice physics engine where the asteroids will bounciness off one another. So you lot may recollect i is clear of hitting the base until it is hit past another asteroid. BlastCannon is definitely a "fire and forget" type game and 1 that will keep you on your toes.

While I liked BlastCannon, at that place are 2 things missing that would aid with the games appeal. An online leaderboard and a help section. While you tin can view a prissy range of gaming stats, it'south always dainty to run into how you compare with other players via an online leaderboard. And while the game isn't difficult to choice up, it would be squeamish to have a cursory assist section detailing the bonuses and game play. For the longest I thought I had to shoot the asteroids back off the top of the screen. That's a lot of tapping.

Even though there is room for improvement, I found BlastCannon to exist a very good game for my Windows Phone gaming library. If you lot're looking for an entertaining game to pass the time with, BlastCannon is definitely worth a effort.

BlastCannon is a free, advertising free game that you lot can grab hither at the Windows Phone Market place.

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