iSniper Lite
War games have always been an taboo genre in the iPhone and iPod Touch world, partly because they are usually so complicated to create, and partially because perfecting the process with the touch screen would be difficult. That doesn’t mean no one has tried it though, and one particular game that has taken the charts by storm is iSniper Lite. The game was created by MASQ Interactive Limited, and is available in a paid version as well.
The game is the first one of it’s kind, and while it does a great job to showcase a realistic sniper game, it’s obviously going to need some tuning. The free version is quite limited, and all you can do is play in the practice mode. In said practice mode, you play as the sniper of an anti-terrorism unit, and you must snipe the terrorists, who are situated in buildings and streets across from you. You tap to zoom in with your scope, and then tap again on the shooting button to fire. The goal of the practice mode is to shoot as many terrorists as possible within the set time limit, which also increases with each terrorist you shoot. Theoretically, someone could keep playing forever, but we highly doubt that’s possible. The game also houses a breathing button, which lets you hold your breath, but this is not needed. We don’t know if you’ll need this in the full version, but it was a fairly big waste in the free version.
We had great expectations for this App, and while we understand it can’t meet up to all of them, it’s very surprising that the developers chose to completely handicap their free version. The free version doesn’t have much going for it and we’re not sure that this App sets a very good precedent for future War Games apps, and that’s why we’re going to give it a dismal 2 out of 5 stars.
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