Sometimes, it doesn’t take award-winning graphics or a complicated back story or gameplay to have a difficult but addictive mobile game. One case in point is a new game where you are the last line of defense against invading aliens, but all you have to defend your planet are weapons that fall from above but might cause you to fall into the vast space. Prepare to have your reflexes and control tested with Bang Man.
Okay, once you’ve gotten over juvenile laughter over its name (wait, it’s just us laughing?), the game may seem simple, but it is deceptively so. You’re standing on a platform made up of around 9 squares. The aliens fall from above, as well as the weapons you need to defeat them. The twist is that the guns have a recoil, which can send you to the edge or over the platform. The recoil value is indicated in the number that comes with the weapon. If you fall off or the alien hits you, you’re dead and have to start all over again.
Again, it’s not as easy as it seems. The aliens become faster once you kill one of its comrades. You can slow things down with a weapon that has a recoil of 6 blocks, but good luck not falling off with that. The name of the game by the way is not really saving the earth, but getting as many points as you can. The higher the recoil value of the weapon you use, the more points you get, given that you don’t fall off and have to start all over again.
Bang Man is available for free download from the Google Play Store. The only in-app purchase is to get rid of the ads and that will just cost you around $1, so should be worth it, just to be able to continually play the game without interruptions.
