Meowcenaries – Review
By App Type: Uncategorized
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By: Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Version #: 1.0
Date Released: 2009-11-13
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Price: 0.99
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As of this writing, Meowcenaries (as well as a few other Adult Swim games) are on sale in the App Store for $.99. If you like Adult Swim’s brand of humor in your games, then now is the time to pick this one up.
Meowcenaries is an interesting mix of your standard strategy/action game and the phenomenon known as LOLCats. The idea behind the game is that you’re a group of mercenary cartoon cats and you have to defeat "EvilCat" and his army of "Badkatz" but walking through the forest and shooting them. There are actually several sets of objectives in the game including the collection of "cheezburgers".
Game play is fairly simple as the standard movement controller appears on the bottom left of the screen and shooting controller appears on the bottom right. There is also a control in the bottom center for choose the sort of weapon the cats shoot (they start with a machine gun and other weapons can be collected in the game). The Settings Menu allows the user to even name the four mercenary cats in the game (you can use names like "Snowball" and "Mr. Fluffykins"). The game also has my favorite feature of being able to play iPod music in the background.
As one would expect from an Adult Swim game, it is just the right combination of cute and violent. It can be slightly difficult to adjust to the controls as the shooting control also controls the direction the cats face, but after a few minutes of play it shouldn’t be a big deal.
My one complaint about the game is not about the game itself. It’s about the cartoon slide introduction to it. It goes along to fast and is difficult to read to get the game’s premise. Either it should go more slowly or the user should be able to control the speed of it.
Overall, this game is a bargain at $.99. Recommended.
Quick Take
Value:High.
Would I Buy Again:For a buck? Absolutely.
Learning Curve:Low.
Who Is It For:LOLCat lovers and humor fans.
What I Like:Funny concept. Good execution.
What I Don't Like:Slideshow introduction moves to fast.
Final Statement:I can has Meowcenaries. LOL. OMG.
In Meowcenaries, you control an elite squad of combat kittens as they try to rescue the president from the maniacal evil cat Evilcat and his Badkatz soldiers. Guide your platoon through over 20 punishing levels of action, dispatching enemy cats from wherever they emerge, rescuing hostages, and capturing or destroying Evilcat’s strongholds.Gameplay is a mix of action and strategy—you must decide the best course through the sprawling environments and which objectives to tackle first. As you progress your cats gain combat experience, making them shoot farther and more accurately. Should one of your feline killers take a bullet you can replay the mission to keep leveling your team undisturbed. Evilcat must be stopped. The time for yarn balls is over. Good luck!
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