Windows Phone Game Review: Battle Sub

Battle Sub for Windows Phone

Battle Sub is a neat picayune game for your Windows Telephone. With Boxing Sub you command a one-human being sub cruising Oceania taking on various missions, taking out killer sharks, enemy ships, and giant octopuses. All the while snatching up treasure and avoiding running out of oxygen.

Battle Sub is nicely fatigued up, has its off-white share of challenges, and isn't a bad fourth dimension waster of a game. In a mode, Boxing Sub reminds me a trivial of I Dig It. Except Battle Sub is played under h2o and I Dig It is played under ground.

Okay... your main menu with Battle Sub has options to play the game, abandoned a game in progress, toggle between tilt phone and joystick controls, spend any gold yous may take collected, view other apps by the programmer and exit the game.

Battle Sub Menu

You can command your sub by either a virtual joystick that sits in the lower right corner of the screen or with your Windows Phone tilt controls. If you effort the tilt controls, it won't surprise me if you immediately pause the game and switch dorsum to the joystick. The tilt controls are great for descending and turning your sub but ascending to the surface and moving left/right are tough. Information technology may exist an event of calibration but I plant the joystick to be a lot more responsive.

As you launch a game, yous're given the option of three difficulty levels (easy, medium, and hard). Before you lot choose your difficulty, accept a few seconds to look through the help screen (you tin can merely admission information technology here) to familiarize yourself with the tid bits of the game. From in that location y'all spring straight into the game.

Battle Sub's game screen is laid out as follows. Your score, health and oxygen levels are scattered beyond the top of the screen. Along the left side of the screen are your Master and Secondary goals. In the lesser left corner is your joystick and in the lesser right corner is your torpedo launch control.

Goals vary from gathering items off the ocean floor to taking out a gear up number of targets. If yous complete a secondary goal before you reach the master, a new secondary goal is generated. When you tackle a secondary goal, a bonus detail will go available to give your sub a boost in firepower or furnish your health.

Battle Sub Game Screens

Your sub has a limited amount of oxygen and as the meter slowly runs out, you'll demand to run to the surface to take hold of your breath. To assist yous along (and to stay submerged longer) you tin find air bubbles in the water that will furnish a portion of your oxygen.

Equally you work towards accomplishing your Primary and Secondary Goals you'll run across sharks, attack subs, behemothic octopus and schools of fish. You fire your missiles to accept out the sharks, enemy subs and octopus. The schools of fish just swim about and modify direction when struck past your sub. If you brand contact with the sharks, octopi, and subs y'all'll lose wellness points. If your health meter hits zero or you run out of oxygen, the game'south over.

Along the bottom of Oceania you'll run across treasure chests of gold. Collect enough gold you can spend information technology to repair your send, heave your oxygen or heave your torpedoes.

Battle Sub is a nice time waster of a game. Yous can too find yourself getting pulled into the game for longer spurts of time likewise. The graphics and animations are nice, sound furnishings adept and game play challenging enough to keep yous interested. While I like Battle Sub, there is room for improvement.

For starters, the Battle Sub needs the assist section more than readily available. Gameplay isn't difficult to get the hang of but it would exist nice to know what all the items and targets mean during the game. The price of repairs is a bit loftier (particularly when you lot're earning gold 4-half-dozen coins at a fourth dimension) and lastly, at that place's no way of saving a game in progress. It would exist dainty to be able to spring into things where you left off, especially if you lot're having a killer round.

While there's room for improvement, Battle Sub is worth a endeavor. It doesn't take long to get a handle on game play and you may find yourself playing longer than expected.

Boxing Sub is a complimentary game that you can find hither at the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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