Real War: Not Fake

I saw an ad on Instagram about this game and I didn't have much faith in it, but I decided I'd give it 10 minutes to grab my attention. After 10 minutes I realize this is actually a good game and not sloppily made. The first good thing about this game is the ads aren't that intrusive. An ad plays about every three runs you do and runs can take 45 seconds. That's way better than most mobile games out there. Second good thing about this game is the progression. At fitst I was dying to the first subtraction wall and enemies, but then I upgraded and was able to pass it. This gameplay loop continued for about fifteen minutes and then I finally passed the level! It felt really good! I loved to progression style this game has where you work up from the bottom and slowly climb up. A lot of mobile games don't do that anymore. The third good thing about this game is how it feels to play. Mowing down enemies is satisfying because you can feel a little vibration from the haptic sensor with every kill you get and tire you break. The sound effects are also really solid if you have the sound on (which is rare with mobile games.) That's all I really have to say. Good game and will reccomend it to my friends!

First of all, the game really is like it was in the ad. So they did get that part right. But there are several major flaws in the gameplay. First being the biggest and most prevalent: the ads. The levels are short because you have to upgrade your fire rate and damage A LOT to progress through the level. Collecting enough coins to upgrade these is a chore (unless you watch ads to get double coins) which brings us to the second major flaw. The ads themselves. You have to watch an ad at least every 3 attempts at the levels. You will literally spend more time watching ads than you will playing the game. I understand that the ads are how the developers get paid for making these free games, But forced ads every 3 levels is kinda rude. I also noticed that some of the gates (the ones you shoot at to get more soldiers) are not consistent. One will go from -20 easily to +7 with minimal soldiers, but then you will have another one that will go -40 to -10 with 4x the soldiers. That math ain’t mathin. If you want to make gates progressively harder, make the numbers go up. Don’t lead someone to believe that they will be able to go from -40 to 0 when they have 40 soldiers shooting tons of bullets. Just my thoughts. For someone who actually played top war for a long time (the game that this one claims is the real one from the ads) you have the opportunity to make something good here.

Don’t get me wrong, I was super excited to see this finally be a real game instead of the fake one from the ads. However, it could’ve been executed better. Every level, you simply cannot make it past a certain point without using your coins to upgrade. After enough failures to get to the end you will have earned enough to upgrade enough to beat the level. So you are being rewarded not for how well you play but for how long you play. If the mechanics of the game changed to where you relied less on upgrades before each restart and more on actually passing through the right gates at the right time then it would be a lot more fun. Just more thought needs to be put into the gameplay and less reliance on upgrades. Upgrade the gear by playing well throughout the course while playing through. Not just spending money you earn by playing and failing over and over. The argument could be made that if you play better you earn more but that’s simply not the case as you can just start right over and start getting more coins right away. Almost entirely lacking any need for skill or thinking.