Justice Never Stops… Running | Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty Review

<p>Mobile gaming is really not my cup of tea&period; Like most people&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve flung a few birds and blasted a few monkeys in my time but I have never fully embraced my phone as a go-to device for a real gaming experience&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s just something about it that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t seem to click for me&comma; so it was with great trepidation that I downloaded Captain America&&num;8217&semi;s game to my Galaxy S2&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There were three reasons that I decided to give this game a try however&semi; One&colon; I love the Avengers and Captain America just happens to be my favorite of the group&period; Two&colon; I loved <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;america-proud-captain-america-super-soldier-review&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Captain America&&num;8217&semi;s major console release<&sol;a>&period; Three&colon; The &period;99 cent price tag&period; After putting Captain America&comma; and my thumbs&comma; through their paces I&&num;8217&semi;m happy to report that although my 360 and PS3 are in no danger of being replaced by my phone&comma; I have found that mobile games can offer a rewarding&comma; if not neutered&comma; gaming experience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The story of this game is a point of interest to me right off the bat&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s clearly set in the universe of the latest movie as it uses Chris Evans&&num;8217&semi; likeness and Captain America sports the suit designed for the film&period; The game goes in a different direction&comma; however&comma; as it offers up a different take on the fate of characters like Captain America and Bucky over the course of the game&period; It was a bit of a surprise to see a game so obviously designed to cash in on the popularity of the film and yet tell such a drastically different story&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s not a criticism&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s just not what I was expecting and it was actually a bit of a pleasant surprise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23349" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23349" style&equals;"width&colon; 500px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;justice-stops-running-captain-america-sentinel-liberty-review&sol;cap2&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-23349"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-23349 " src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06134211&sol;cap2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Captain America&colon; Sentinel of Liberty Screenshot 1" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"375" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-23349" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">The cutscenes &lpar;if you can call them that&rpar; are told through static comic images with scrolling text across the bottom<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The gameplay side of things is where I held most of my reservations&period; As someone who doesn&&num;8217&semi;t game on his phone a lot I was a little worried about operating a platformer&sol;brawler on my phone but fortunately I picked it right up&period; Similar to many mobile action games&comma; Captain America is in a perpetual state of motion&period; Swiping left or right on the screen will change the direction in which he&&num;8217&semi;s running but he continues to move at a constant pace&period; Double tapping the screen will stop him but it&&num;8217&semi;s a largely useless move to make as you cannot really perform any actions like fighting or jumping if you&&num;8217&semi;re not on the move so letting Captain America continue to run is recommended&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Combat is handled in the same manner as swiping left&comma; right&comma; up and down will cause Captain America to perform different combos to quickly take down Hydra soldiers&period; Pulling off combos is an overly simplified affair as screen prompts pop up every time to show you which way to swipe&period; It made sense to see these prompts in the first few levels but it was a bit strange to see them popping up in the last few levels as I was taking down enemies for what had to be the five hundredth time&period; Your shield is&comma; as is expected&comma; also a major source of combat&period; Tapping the the shield icon at the bottom of the screen will cause Captain America to fling his shield at predetermined spots on the screen&period; This can be used in everything from taking down enemies to opening doors&comma; and to destroying evil super computers&period; Shield tossing and face smashing is an effortless affair and continued to be satisfying during the entire course of gameplay&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23506" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23506" style&equals;"width&colon; 576px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;justice-stops-running-captain-america-sentinel-liberty-review&sol;captain-america-sentinel-of-liberty&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-23506"><img class&equals;" wp-image-23506 " src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06132453&sol;captain-america-sentinel-of-liberty&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Captain America&colon; Sentinel of Liberty Screenshot 2" width&equals;"576" height&equals;"346" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-23506" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Constant on screen prompts assure that you&&num;8217&semi;ll never be at a loss as to how to take down the baddies<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Platforming wasn&&num;8217&semi;t all a basket of roses&comma; however&period; Many areas required precision swipes of your finger to run across certain surfaces but it was extremely finicky as to whether or not it was going to work&period; Much of my play time consisted of me backtracking several times over simply because I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t able to clear certain jumps&period; Areas like this popped up a little too much for my taste and the game required a certain level of precision in these areas that a touch screen phone just can&&num;8217&semi;t offer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reaching all these areas is something you&&num;8217&semi;ll want to do too as every level includes five different collectible Hydra Intel folders which unlock certain perks&period; Collect enough of these folders and the game will unlock up to four different outfits for Cap as well as an impressive number of classic comic book covers&period; The different outfits were fun to play around with but the comic covers were little more than small icons on the screen with no way to zoom in on them&period; This was a bit of a disappointment to me as I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t read most of the text on the comics and as a result&comma; really couldn&&num;8217&semi;t enjoy the things I was working so hard to unlock&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;23507" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-23507" style&equals;"width&colon; 573px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;justice-stops-running-captain-america-sentinel-liberty-review&sol;captain&lowbar;america&lowbar;6&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-23507"><img class&equals;" wp-image-23507 " src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;08&sol;06132442&sol;captain&lowbar;america&lowbar;6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Captain America&colon; Sentinel of Liberty Screenshot 3" width&equals;"573" height&equals;"430" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-23507" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Running across the wooden walls in the background is more of a headache than it should be<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">Sound design is also a mixed bag&period; The music is serviceable enough and I was surprised to see that you can even download the soundtrack on iTunes&period; As decent as the music was&comma; I did get tired of hearing the same themes over and over again&period; Captain America&&num;8217&semi;s voice is also extremely grating&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know who this guy is doing the voice but he sounds like someone who would have voiced Captain America in an animated series back in the sixties&period; I kept expecting him to turn towards the camera and say &&num;8220&semi;Now&comma; what did we learn today&comma; kids&quest;&&num;8221&semi;&period; It also didn&&num;8217&semi;t help that he only recorded about five different lines of dialogue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Small gripes aside&comma; <em>Captain America&colon; Sentinel of Liberty<&sol;em> is a completely serviceable mobile game&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s more depth here than most games I&&num;8217&semi;ve played on my phone and it even wraps up with a surprising and welcomed boss fight&period; Add that to the plethora of unlockables and you&&num;8217&semi;ve got yourself a bargain priced game that definitely earns its spot on anyone&&num;8217&semi;s phone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;