AppSpy writes: "It's hard not to overstate how excellent PewPew 2 by Jean-Francois Geyelin is, but I'll try not to gush too much. Where so many twin-stick shooters are content with throwing tonnes of enemies at you with varied AI to mix up the difficulty, PewPew 2 builds on the original by challenging your dexterity, accuracy and puzzle solving skills with levels that are brimming with great design and varied gameplay."
The arcade shooter is a style of game that I love, but which went out of fashion in the last decade as improved hardware led most developers to embrace the immersion of a first-person or third-person perspective.
Fortunately, the constraints of mobile hardware have caused resurgence in the genre, and there’s a hoard of titles to choose from. Perhaps too many, as with tower defense, picking out the really great games from the schlock isn’t easy. That’s why Matt at Makeuseof.com rounded up the five absolute must-play arcade shooters for iOS.
2011's ten best Android games so far.
Here's my list:
Order and Chaos Online
Backstab
Nova 2
Starfront Collision
Mr Karoshi
Battleheart
9 Innings Pro Baseball 2011
Symphony of Eternity
Plants vs Zombies
Cut the Rope
Pocket Gamer - “Dodge, duck, reverse aim, snatch extra shield, avoid exploding square, too late, game over, tap retry”. Thus goes the internal monologue of the PewPew 2 addict.
The original Pocket Gamer Silver Award winner proved bedroom coder Jean-Francois Geyelin could affectionately ape the pixel-perfect precision of twin-stick shooters like Geometry Wars on Android touchscreens.
