Friday, April 11, 2014

Sniper


Having just read Mark Owen's "The Hardest Day" and thinking I was downloading a first person shooter, I was all excited to act out my fantasy of being a member of Navy Seal Team 6. boy, was I ever disappointed!  The game instead is a median for trying to get you to download another app that wants to run ads on your phone 24-7. You can get through the half dozen prompts safely and begin to enjoy this game that turns out to be <drum roll> a puzzle game!

Yes, the brave men and woman of the US armed services have accidentally been shuffled into a frenzy that would put Dick Cheney to shame and need your assistance to reassemble their various vehicles and cool action shots of marines with big guns in order to defeat America's enemies. Are you up for the challenge?

I went ahead and played a few rounds, fun enough game, but not what I was expecting and not anything that I would wake up in the middle of the night and write home about, especially because in that scenario I see myself already in bed. Perhaps instead I am in a commandos tent in the middle of Afghanistan and the President has personally selected me for the critically important mission of rearranging tiles such that an image is made of a sniper kneeling on a sand dune... DANG IT!

Recommendation: Read the book "No Easy Day" Get the app only if you are really bored and are confident you won't install a bunch of Adware apps on your phone by doing so. That is the real challenge of this game.