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This is a demo for Vertigo Rogue for iPhone and iPod Touch
Let's start it up
A few seconds of loading, that's all you're gonna wait in this game
Vertigo Rogue is a classic Arcade Style action game
featuring very realistic graphics and an easily controlled helicopter
The main menu is classic Arcade Style Start game, select skill level, and you're off
The 38 missions are divided into 6 chapters that you must complete one by one
You can see here that I haven't unlocked chapter 6 yet because I've only completed 3 of the 6 missions in chapter 5
Each mission comes with a little briefing that ties into the entire story
if you want you can fast forward just like on an old VCR
Now, for controlling the chopper
you just put your thumbs on the two virtual sticks
pulling them apart will make you take off, both sticks sideways will make you strafe
and to land you squeeze them just like zooming a picture on the iphone
you can twist them to turn and take both forward to accelerate
and you can do all of these things at the same time giving you very flexible control of the chopper
for example if I want to hunt down this yellow car I can easily do that between the buildings,
I can turn the corners, attack it close range
There are lots of enemies and different weapons in the game; You can get involved in some serious air combat
here I'm having a dogfight with a fighter jet and two military helicopters
The orange enemy icons around the screen edge help me point out the bogeys
And when I'm using the laser guided missiles
I have to hold the target in the seeker for a couple of seconds for the missile to lock onto them
This is played on the hardest skill level, so it'll take a couple of hits to down the enemies
Now, the red icons will point out the direction to my current mission objectives
and the yellow ones point out power-ups
Here I get a warning and you can see the fuel meter flashing in the right side
So I locate the nearest fuel powerup - it's on the rooftop here -
I pick it up and I'm ready to continue my mission
There are heavy enemies in the streets that you don't want to get too close to
so you have to pick the right weapon for the task
you select weapons by tapping the left thumb and you fire them just by tapping the right one
The landscape is huge,
including various city types, country side and harbours where you get to fight heavily armed warships...
...as well as light, fast moving speed boats
There's a little bonus feature in the game if you go to options and turn on Stereoscopic 3D
and if you happen to have one of these common red/blue 3D goggles at hand
then you'll be able to experience all this action in real stunning 3D
Vertigo Rogue is available at the AppStore Have fun and go rogue!