![]() ![]() What Catapult King also has is a much more visceral, and much more satisfying, physics model. That's the itch that Angry Birds scratches, which is why most players seem not to care about the opaque scoring.Ĭatapult King has similarly opaque scoring, with bronze, silver and gold crowns for each level, augmented with various combinations of gems depending on how many enemies you got in one shot, how much damage you caused and so on. It's why most people can't be in a room with a snooker table without absent-mindedly whacking the balls off the cushions, just for fun. One of the first games we learn to play is knocking over stacks of blocks. That playfulness is at the core of the fling-things genre. This may seem like a semantic change, but where this sort of game is concerned, it's actually fundamental to the appeal.Īs Christian recently pointed out, sometimes the fun of a game comes from the mechanics, the innate appeal of playing with virtual physics to see what happens. It's a full 3D polygon world, and you view it from a first-person view, over the top of your catapult. Where Catapult King is concerned, the difference is largely visual. These come at the cost of your magic points, but will help demolish a tricky level. There are even equivalents of the Angry Birds Eagle, in the shape of earthquake and meteor storm power-ups that can be called upon. All have their Angry Bird analogues, and all work exactly as you expect. And there's even one that splits into three, offering a wider damage spread at the cost of lower impact. Is there one that detonates like a bomb? Naturally. Metal cannonballs will plough through stone and wood alike. Standard rock-and-twine balls are good for demolishing wooden structures, but do minimal damage to those that are reinforced or made from stone. Pull back the catapult, aim and release, and try to use your limited shots to knock down structures, killing all the enemies in the process.Īre there different shot types? Of course. The title alone pretty much spells out what you'll be doing. Crush the Castle begat Angry Birds and now the games that are jumping on the Angry Birds bandwagon are starting to look like Crush the Castle again. "Take down forts, castles and even a fire-breathing dragon in Catapult King - the King of castle crushers!" goes the iTunes blurb for this latest Chillingo offering. ![]()
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