![]() Occasionally you get to rummage through trunks for treasure, and you can look around, but your field of view is restricted to about 90 degree either side of the direction you’re facing. Instead you move from challenge to challenge by tapping on a pulsing blue spot, making Infinity Blade a move-at-your-own-pace rail game. You are not free to roam, which would have been cool. While the battles are fun, they can get a bit repetitive. As you progress, however, your opponents do become harder to beat, so learn well. Your opponents are huge, but if you pay attention, learn your moves, and swipe, dodge and block when you should then you’ll have no problem sending them to meet their maker. Even so, the action is a bit slow at the outset. So, in a battle you wind up quickly swiping and grabbing your iPad as you desperately try to dispatch your foe.Įpic realized this so they inserted little recovery rounds during the battle where you can reposition your hands to get into a better swiping or grabbing position before the action starts again. You must dodge, parry, and block, and those moves require both hands. That’s cool, but battles aren’t won on attacks alone. Many of the moves, especially attacks, require one-handed gestures, and that means that you are holding you iPad with the other hand. Thankfully, the game lets you.įollow the blue spot, but look around as you go.Īs for the controls, well…, some will love them, some will hate them, but no one can fault Epic for trying something new. There’s so much detail in every stage that you’ll want to just look around a bit before and after battling. The game has so much eye candy that it should have a warning label for diabetics. To say Infinity Blade is beautiful is like saying Monica Bellucci will do in a rush. What Epic delivered is very satisfying save a few, but significant complaints that I’ll address in a moment. The trailer and app made many gamers lose bladder control in anticipation. He issues a growl that chills me to the marrow.Ī while back, during an Apple media event Epic Games showed off a trailer for Infinity Blade and whetted our appetites with Epic Citadel, a free app that let us roam an impressively rendered castle that is part of the Infinity Blade environment. The man-mountain advances, sword raised, iron muscles tense. I cannot heed that advice, I travelled too far, shed too much blood to turn away now. Yet I will not back away from this fight, though a part of me, the wiser part, advises me to do just that. His shield could shade the graves of those unfortunate three all at once. ![]() ![]() His sword could halve three men standing in line with one swipe. The man-mountain stands before me, red eyes smoldering like live coals beneath his helm. ![]()
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