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Mixed Feelings About Total Recall Game

   Hey, everyone. I downloaded several games today, with it being Friday and all the new games floating around. I got one for 99 cents that is sort of an odd duck. It is the game published as a promotional thing for the latest flick titled Total Recall. You older heads will remember this as a sci-fi movie of your youth with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think my best memory of that movie was a scene with Sharon Stone...
    The game is a shooter game, and standard shooter fare. I started playing it and my initial thoughts were that I might not review it because I don't review games that I don't at least have some good things to say about them. As I continued to play it, I decided it was okay. Then I decided it was pretty good, not great, but worth the 99 centabos, certainly. Here's the recipe.
    The game follows the script of the movie, basically. You are being pursued by nefarious storm trooper wannabees through the sordid side of town. You have a primary and a secondary weapon, which you can buy with in-game cash. They give you enough dinero so that you can buy a handgun. After some early success, you buy yourself the MP4. This is much better and I hope you like it because, unless you drag out that crusty wallet and buy an in-app, the MP4 will be used for a while.
     I had an early problem in that I couldn't figure out how to pick up items like ammo and cash that was floating in the air. I was trying to shoot them, like in Rage. When I finally realized that I had to tap them with my finger, things went better. I can only say that this game is an on-rails shooter (means you can't roam freely), like Rage, and I thought that I should shoot the pick-em-ups. Not that this game can compare to Rage in game-play or graphics.
    The controls are a bit clunky, also. I do like the fact that you have a scope which you can pop up with a tap. This helps. It's funny, I complained about the auto-aiming when it came out in Modern Combat 3. Now, when you don't have its crisp lock on target, you feel painfully slow as you struggle to bring your sights to bear, as one in a scary dream. Then again, this game is about being in a dream world, sort of. I guess that the head of Nintendo was right when he intimated that gamers were a fickle, hard to please bunch. I am certainly all that. Ha, ha.
    The game gives you 8 levels to start out. This is called Fantasy One. The developers promise 2 more fantasies to come soon.
     I like the simplicity of this game, somewhat. I have had some fun with it. It is definitely worth a dollar. Considering the in-apps for better weapons and the average graphics and controls, I feel like it is priced fairly. One final thought; if you are going to name the sections Fantasies, they should include Sharon Stone, rather than storm troopers. Ha, ha.
    From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills. 
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