Darkside

At the dawn of gaming, Asteroids wowed the world, with its glowing vector graphics depicting your tiny ship and the many angular asteroids it was invited to obliterate. Today, it looks laughably crude, but Darkside shows the basic concept still works.

Darkside, though, isn’t your father’s (or his father’s) videogame. It does, admittedly, take the basic Asteroids concept, in you mostly contending with huge chunks of space rock that you blow into smaller pieces until they’re space dust. But this iOS effort wraps all that around planetoids packed full of mining kit, under constant invasion from hostile alien craft.

With power-ups and twin-stick shooting controls, Darkside is far more intense than the game that inspired it. Throughout its 100 levels, it proves to be an intoxicating mix of dizzying disorientation and pyrotechnics as the planetoid spins beneath your fingers and countless things blow up all around you. 

Craig Grannell

For iPhone and iPad

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