MacWorld - Run, jump, climb, shoot, and duck for cover. With Shadow Guardian by Gameloft, the iOS finally gets a vibrant, full, swashbuckling-fun action-adventure game. You play as Jason Call, and the fate of the world rests upon your shoulders. Mercenaries battle you for control of an ancient relic, the Prima Materia in this third person action title. Drawing inspiration from the Uncharted and Tomb Raider series, Shadow Guardian is a moderately successful attempt to bring treasure hunting action to the iOS platform.
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Pocket Gamer: Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series is well-known for its lush graphics and grand set-pieces. While it owes a lot to titles like Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia – not to mention the Indiana Jones movies – it succeeds in having its own distinct voice.
Meanwhile, Gameloft’s ‘tribute’ to Drake’s globe-trotting antics never quite speaks for itself. Which is hardly surprising, considering what it's overtly squaring itself up to.
Pocket Gamer: Giving players vertigo on their mobile is quite a skill, but the dizzying chasms you navigate in Shadow Guardian - often with feet dangling helplessly over the abyss - nearly pull it off.
Gameloft’s ‘tribute’ to PS3 phenomenon Uncharted excels in building vast, often beautiful environments for you to leap confidently around like a backpack-sporting Prince of Persia, but fumbles its gunplay like an early Lara Croft.
