It’s Monday, you’re still recovering from your weekend in Vegas, or your weekend doing yard work, or the Sunday spent drinking alone while your dogs fight over the final piece of chicken from yesterday’s BBQ. Whatever the case may be, you’re most likely stuck in a meeting discussing something you’re not particularly interested in anyway. And here we offer your saving grace, App Monday. Whether the App shown will make your life a touch easier, help you send a MEME that only 3 people understand, or simply waste time, we’ll bring you something to make the time pass just a little better.
Today we bring you Split! By Touchy Mobile. This action/strategy game is a pretty large offering of content, and a lot of fun, for a minimal cost. Running a scant $.99 on the Apple App Store, the game is enthralling and to call it a time waster isn’t giving the strategic side justice.
You and your partner in crime have just masterminded an escape from your prison cells. The next step is to actually leave the prison, utilizing divide-and-conquer tactics, one of you must distract a guard while the other shoots him. Guards of course will begin shooting the second they see either of you, and if you’re not behind cover you’ll die. If either member of your team dies you start the level over.
For having such a seemingly basic premise the game has a good increase in difficulty as you progress. The mazes become more complex, and the cover becomes more advantageous to the guards, and harder for you to bypass. I found myself stuck in a frustrating world of thumping techno wondering if I would ever escape the prison, or if I’d simply be doomed to replay the same 4 levels til the end of my days.
Visually the game is crisp and polished, but doesn’t set any visual mile stones, the sound track as well only has 2 or 3 techno pieces, that help drive the intensity of the level, but really, with minimal story needed the soundtrack doesn’t play into the game much more than that. The controls are easier to utilize than they are to explain. You touch the character you’d like to move and then drag a path across the screen to guide him, aiming primarily for cover or anywhere that can help you avoid the enemies bullets.
Split! Is the perfect game for small doses of tactical combat and problem solvings, the meetings and the hangover will pass more easily knowing this is in your arsenal for the tough Monday afternoons.
