![]() Borrowing graphic design and gravity-bending elements from Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy, both titles bring back the same cast of hero birds and evil pigs found in the prior Angry Birds titles-redrawn a little with comically futuristic, galactic influences-while introducing new birds, such as a purple vector-targeting bird, a cube-shaped freezing ice cube bird, and a massively destructive Space Eagle. These things don’t make Sky Gamblers - Infinite Jets a terrible game necessarily, but they do make it feel much more generic than it should.There’s no doubt that Angry Birds Space ($1) and Angry Birds Space HD ($3) are the most noteworthy titles of the week, not just because they’re bound to be incredibly popular, but also because they’re the most legitimately fresh sequels Rovio Mobile has come up with since the original “slingshot birds to knock down structures full of pigs” game Angry Birds. The customization options present here are reduced to a grind of unlocking a planes in a specific order, and the multiplayer-while varied-doesn’t really encourage much creativity. Infinite Jets should have been a home run of a sequel to Infinite Tanks, but instead it feels like a step back for the series. It feels like a huge oversight and puts a damper on wanting to create any kind of specialization when upgrading fighters. Instead, players get matched into game types randomly and have to use whatever jet they currently have selected in the main menu as their fighter of choice. Similarly, for missions where you need to sneak across enemy lines to wreak havoc on a base, you might want to use a stealth fighter to be a little harder to detect.Īs great as all of this sounds though, Infinite Jets’s multiplayer isn’t designed to allow you to pick your jets for the kind of match you play. For instance, faster aircraft that carry less firepower might sound pretty bad in a deathmatch scenario, but when playing capture the flag, they might be the star of the show. To make the customization and upgrade system of Infinite Jets feel a little less linear, the game offers a good variety of multiplayer missions, some of which are better suited for certain kinds of jets. In addition to this, unlocking all of these planes involves grinding out in-game currency and following a linear path of jet purchases, which makes the whole thing feel like a grind rather than a world of infinite customization options. Where Infinite Tanks let you mix and match all sorts of tank parts to create a war machine tailor-made to your playstyle, Infinite Jets merely provides a set list of jets to unlock and the same sets of weapons and upgrades for all of them. ![]() The only problem with this system though is that it’s not quite as customizable as it may seem. Contrary to its name, Infinite Jets only boasts a little over 100 planes, but each one can be outfitted with different weapons and can be upgraded in a variety of different ways. Thankfully, there is fully-customizable MFi controller support, which is definitely the ideal way to play Infinite Jets.Īlthough the action in Infinite Jets might sound pretty boilerplate stuff, the way it tries to win you over is by having an overwhelming number of jets for you to unlock and play with. There’s not much to it, but all of the on-screen buttons can get a little overwhelming. You also have access to flares and evasive maneuvers that you can use to avoid getting hit yourself. You control your altitude and throttle with two virtual joysticks (or tilt controls) as you try to get a bead on targets and either launch missiles or switch to guns to take them down. The controls here are pretty much exactly what you’d expect from an air combat game. It features a singleplayer campaign that’s 14 brief missions of shooting down AI, with the remainder of the experience being a multiplayer mode where you can take your aircraft online to compete for air supremacy. Much like Infinite Tanks was a pretty straightforward tank battler, Infinite Jets is almost entirely just about jets dogfighting. Although Infinite Jets is a fine enough dogfighting game, it’s lacking in a lot of the customization features that made Infinite Tanks so great. Unfortunately though, there seems to be some turbulence in the series’ transition from land to air. ![]() ![]() Atypical Games took multiplayer tank fighting to the next level with Infinite Tanks last year, and now they’ve taken to this approach to the skies with Sky Gamblers - Infinite Jets.
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