Structured similarly to that series, Spartan Assault maintains the high standards you’ve come to expect from the franchise. And it comes close to delivering a console-quality experience.
The entire five-episode game is divided into short segments that take just a few minutes to play; ideal for the typical mobile gamer who plays in short bursts. Depending on how well you complete the segment you’ll earn bronze, silver, or gold stars. And you can replay the episodes with various difficulties turned on for experience point bonuses.
Those experience points and credits, which are earned and can be purchased with real money from within the game, are currency for equipment upgrades.
Where Spartan Assault stumbles is with its controls. The game is designed so that you hold your touch screen device with your thumbs in the bottom corners, manipulating the virtual thumbsticks.
That works fine if you’re playing on a Windows Phone, but when playing it on a heavier tablet, like the Surface I tested it on, that’s just not possible. Instead, I played it with the Surface on a table, using my index fingers instead of my thumbs.
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