Judged strictly on its merits as a $1 game, Asteroids Gunner is a nice enough update to the original title. For only $100 of real currency, you too can have a million Space Bucks to use towards upgrades for your space ship-a dubious proposition if ever we’ve heard one. At that point, Atari offers players incentives to keep spending additional money for “Space Bucks” that unlock additional stages and items. The lure here is a free, visually updated version of the overhead shooter that starts out ad-supported, but becomes ad-free with a $1 “remove ads” purchase. So Atari and Fluik Entertainment have teamed up to release the universal iOS game Asteroids Gunner (Free/$1), a sequel that feels as if it was expressly designed to drain dollars rather than quarters out of players’ pockets. As much as it hurts to say this given the size of our retro game collection, the classic quarter-sucking arcade title Asteroids hasn’t aged particularly well as a shooter: yes, Atari had a novel idea when it originally placed a lone spaceship in the middle of a collection of rocks, challenging players to blast away until they were all gone, but the turn-thrust-shoot-shoot-shoot action quickly gets repetitive and boring for all but high score chasers.
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