The battles aren’t boring, they just repeat a lot. You can occasionally break up the tedium with special attacks, including magic, but these are limited because they’re pretty powerful. How you fight each one varies – you can’t parry the attacks of the massive enemies, for example – but every battle inevitably breaks down, more or less, to dodging, slashing away furiously, and dodging again. You fight a lot of battles in Infinity Blade, but while there are several different enemies, they break down into three types: small, fast guys medium-sized, stronger guys and huge, lumbering guys.
You’ll also get money to use to buy new weapons from the store in the game’s main menu, and each new piece has its own special benefits. Winning each battle nets you experience points that help you level your character up to increase your stats. Quick slashes are made with swipes across the touch screen, but after a second or two, the enemy will recover, and start to block, and you’ll have to go back into defensive mode. You can tap one of two arrow buttons to dodge (pick the wrong direction or the wrong kind of attack, and you’ll get hit), another button to block with your shield or a directional swipe to parry a blow.Īfter you dodge, block and parry enough times, you’ll knock your enemy back for a second, giving you an opening during which to attack. Each battle progresses the same way: You wait for an enemy to attack, and anticipate where its blow will fall. Infinity Blade is about singular intense battles that happen one at a time, letting you put the game down in between each one to give the game lots of portability and short time requirements. That’s your mission as a nameless warrior in an unknown land, who sets about fighting his way through the tower to reach the evil at its apex. The god-king, an immortal tyrant apparently ruling from a remote tower, must be defeated. Infinity Blade is supposed to represent the future of mobile gaming, and while it is probably the most gorgeous game you can play on an iOS device, it handles a lot like many other iPhone games, and suffers from being short and repetitive.
The air has been buzzing for months about Infinity Blade – ChAIR’s iPhone and iPad one-on-one sword-fighting game that includes role-playing elements – because it was created using Epic Games’ powerful Unreal Engine 3, a first on a mobile device.
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