iPhone Review: Orbital Defence | The Portable Gamer

TPG writes: "The iPhone is a conundrum for old-school shooters. It's the one system still utilizing a vertically-aligned the screen, perfect for old school shooters. The problem is that as a system with only a touch screen interface and no actual physical buttons that the genre usually requires for precise controls. Orbital Defence hopes to invoke the spirit of these classic games, while utilizing a control scheme designed for the iPhone. And it is your opinion of the controls that will determine whether or not you enjoy this game."

[bgrundman]

Is this like another asteroids clone?

[wondroushippo]

Just because a game has, well, asteroids, doesn't mean that it's an Asteroids clone. Heh.

[bgrundman]

Yay for the retro feel. I can really appreciate this in my games.

[wondroushippo]

Yeah, I love retro style games...at least this was a good attempt

[WiFi Pirate]

My skills for old school shooters has long since become rusty. Much like my fighting game skills. It looks nice but if the controls don't work so well AND you need to have great shooter skills, i wouldn't fair well.

[ewanaiton52]

But what if the reviewer was just an incompetent cad? He does say that. He didn't call himself a cad, but regardless, my point stands.

[GR00V3R73]

I just bought it, and I'm still learning, but I think I like it. It's pretty fun. :)

I found a controls sensitivity slider in the game's options menu...maybe he missed that?

[Horse3219]

I grabbed this out of curiosity. Its not your typical button hitting shoot em up, but the controls make the game heaps of fun, and i found it really easy to pick up, I love it! You can fire fairly quickly when things get too hairy. As an iphone game, the concept is great.