Infinity Field for the iPad: Review & Code Giveaway
Infinity Field is a twin stick shooter for the iPad by Chillingo. If you aren’t familiar with a twin-stick shooter, it’s a genre of games where one stick controls the movement and the other controls which way you shoot. The most obvious twin-stick shooter to compare this game to is the popular Geometry Wars, thanks to the similar controls and graphics.
I love the attitude the developers had when making this game. There’s no dancing around the fact that it is a Geometry Wars clone. I like to think Chillingo just thought, “We really like this game. Let’s make it ourselves, but better,” because that’s exactly what they did. By all rights and purposes, this could be Geometry Wars 3.
The gameplay is hectic, to say the least. I was used to having a tactile response with a game controller, so the touch screen twin sticks took me a while to get used to. Once I did, though, I had a blast. Your ship moves with your left stick and you fire your lasers (pew pew) with the right stick.
As you complete levels and gain points, you can upgrade your ship type and weaponry to give you a bit more of an edge against the onslaught of malevolent shapes trying to kill you. Through trial and error, you will develop a few strategies and moves to help you survive the ever-increasing time limit. I’ve named mine:
- The Pinwheel
- The Perimeter Panic
- The Flying V
- Death Kite
- Bomb (This is just a bomb. I couldn’t be very clever with it)
- The Australian Flush
There are six game modes including snake, zombie, unarmed, and cruces mode (which I’m dubbing awesome mode, because it is) that you can play individually, or as part of a campaign with increasing difficulty and bosses. The campaign got so difficult at times I wanted to cry and throw my iPad at another iPad playing the same level in Infinity Field. Like any good arcade game, I would put the game down for a little while, only to revisit it and beat it on my first retry.
Infinity Field looks great, sounds great and plays great once you get used to the controls. I didn’t care that it wasn’t the most original game in the world because it turned out better than the game it was emulating. Don’t hold the fact that this looks like Geometry Wars against it. For $1.99, you can’t go wrong with this game.
Infinity Field is super fun, and we’re giving away a copy in the comments. All you have to do is tell me which shape you think is the most deadly.
The dodecahedron is the most deadly, of course.
Since I haven’t played it yet… I would have to guess… the little orange diamonds!
Geometry Wars 3 is definitely an appropriate name from what I can see.
Fun review!
LOL: “I wanted to cry and throw my iPad at another iPad playing the same level”
I’m going to have to guess as well…
the orange square as there are less of ‘em in the screen shot, indicating to me they are more to be feared!
Thanks for the contest!
The octagon shape is the most deadly….because it has 8 freakin’ sides to squash you with!
No idea what shapes are in this game as I don’t have it (and hence why I’m entering the contest), but I would guess a triangle is the most dangerous shape. It just seems it would be sleek, fast, and it’s pointy edges would be lethal!
Good responses so far. Keep ‘em coming.
Don’t have the game (why I’m entering the contest) but if I had to guess I’d say there is a Ninja Star shape perhaps even a whole field of them, and they would work in unison like a bunch of gears and you have to navigate that ever-shifting blade-maze with other smaller (lethal) objects also traversing the maze.
Square! Why? It’s tank-alike. It associates with power, strenght and might. It is endure and can survive anything. Can’t deal any damage to your enemy? Tire him. Then hit.
Don’t be a coward seeking the easiest challenge, run into groups defeating enemies massively.
That’s Square.