Since the heady days of immediacy presented by Wolfenstein and DOOM the first-person shooter (FPS) genre has changed substantially. Overly complicated and frequently far too linear, the genre has become bloated and cinematic for both its better and to its detriment. Here to save us from all the gung-ho military homoeroticism and overstretching of the term ‘realism’ are none other than PlayStation Mobile heroes Ripstone and their partners in crime, Green Hill.
Brian Sharon of The Vita Lounge reviews the PSMobile retro-shooter Gun Commando by Ripstone Games.
STP: Gun Commando hits on all the right notes standing out as a passionate homage to an era long gone.
Touch Arcade: Ripstone Ltd. would like to sell you a time machine. For only a buck, you can download Gun Commando [$0.99] and travel way back to 1993, a year when Bill Clinton was president, Sega and Nintendo went 15 rounds in the 16-bit console prize fight, and first-person shooters didn't bother with radical ideas like aiming up and down.
