Wall Street Titan Review

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The standard of entertainment iOS gamers have come to expect from the App Store is fairly high when compared to Apple’s rivals – the lack of variety in mobile platforms to potentially develop for makes maximising your game’s potential much easier.

Wall Street Titan has a lot to go up against, then. It’s a respectably animated, well-meaning game trying to have a poke at the big guys in a vaguely sardonic manner. A big evil corporation builds a giant robot to defend Wall Street from hippies but they don’t account for Anonymous hacking it and turning it against its masters. What results is a gleeful suit-smashing robo fest that attempts to “stick it to the man” in a very harmless, carefree way.
The basis of the game is a fixed screen filled with protesters and policemen. You tap to destroy the fatcats whilst avoiding smushing the 99% into a 99% flesh paste but the amount of negative points you get compared to the positives for killing businessmen isn’t high enough to be a real deterrent – it’s quite easy to just steamroller ahead and get tap-happy. There are a few power-ups like pepper spray – and the image of a Gundam-esque robot titan using a tiny can of pepper spray is pretty amusing.

This indie mobile title is kind of satisfying in its own way – after all, an independent studio making a game that takes a mischievous poke at the big corporations should always be lauded – but Wall Street Titan has a lot to go up against in terms of competition in the App Store. There’s not enough going on and it feels too static to keep you returning to it during your commute/coffee break/genuinely important business meeting. Despite more powerups becoming available and enemy waves increasing in intensity as the game goes on, it does nothing to really hook you in and keep you coming back.

Dark Tonic Games have a lot of potential to build on here, and it’d be great to see Wall Street Titan reincarnated with a little bit of visual cleaning up so it’s more obvious what you’re supposed to smash and what you’re supposed to save. More balanced scoring, so you have an active reason to think about avoiding the hippies that occasionally get in your way, would make the game an entirely more addictive experience – there just needs to be a stronger foil, more fear of failing. Right now it just doesn’t seem to matter too much what you hit as long as you hit something.

It’s worth a look and you’ll get a few giggles out of it, but it could be so much better with just a little more movement of the environment and clarity – at the moment your targets are pretty homogenous and perhaps a little more could be done to separate them from the environment and each other. Regardless, this stands as a functional, enjoyable mobile game that currently sadly lacks that addictive factor that makes and breaks titles that want to compete in a market flooded with content. It’s still miles above some of the lesser games in its price bracket, though.

 

Features:

Wall Street Titan is available now for iPhone 3GS & later, iPod Touch 3^rd gen & later, all iPad & iPad Mini devices.  It can be found in both the Arcade and Action Games categories in the App Store.

Available on the App Store now: http://itun.es/us/h8OLE.i

Disclaimer:All scores given within our reviews are based on the artist’s personal opinion; this should in no way impede your decision to purchase the game.