Full Gore

I find myself torn with Mini Gore for the iPhone. I want to love it because its hip factor and ease are remarkable but it also has its share of problems. The game features a square headed bearded man with a machine gun named John Gore whose sole mission is to not get killed by an onslaught of furry animal-like baddies which come at him in various sizes and in various quantities.

Its the smoothest game I've ever played on the platform, the on screen controls are intuitive and work like the analog sticks on a console controller, the character's movements are pretty automatic, the way the ammunition is fired off is reminiscent of a Contra or Metal Slug game, and the app icon is the most badass thing ever.

Indeed this is the best thing to come out of Sweden since Abba Zlatan Ibrahimovic. But it does have a few drawbacks which, despite the fact that they can be easily corrected with updates, bring the overall grade down a notch. For starters the in game upgrades are minimal: John Gore can find a crate that gives him temporary use of a shotgun (which isnt very useful) and he can collect three clovers (which look like the 4chan logo) and become a freakish monster for a brief period of time. These might be fun add-ons but they're minimal and inferior to the standard gun.

The game also has, as of this writing, only one level and no way of getting out of it successfully, its pretty demoralizing to realize that no matter how well everything is going you're gonna eventually die. The good news here is that an update similar to those for Pocket God can easily add a level, in fact there are screenshots floating around that show Gore shooting down some Bolsheviks in the snow, that looks very promising and hopefully the dollar paid for the game entitles the buyer to the updates.

The opening screen gives even more hopes as it shows an entire cast of baddies and even a damsel in distress which are not present in the current release but one can only imagine will be added later. With time, and with some hard Swedish labor, this survival game could easily become the best shooter on the mobile market.