Demolition Lander: Universe Review
Price: $3.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
App Reviewed on: iPhone 5
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As the famous demotivational poster reminds us (usually alongside a picture of a wage slave toiling over a McDonald's fryer), “Not everyone gets to be an astronaut.”
There are hundreds of reasons why us regular schlubs aren't fit for space travel – I, for one, am incapable of doing long division and tend to puke if both my feet rise a couple of inches off terra firma – but Demolition Lander: Universe by ApexTech provides a particularly good reminder: it's dang hard to pilot one of those crazy lunar-landing capsules without blowing the whole works to Kingdom Come.
There are several planets to explore in Demolition Lander, each of which contains several multi-screen missions. Players glide across each planet's surface – and, in some instances, below the surface – towards a safe exit.
There are traps galore to contend with, including turrets and mines. Players need to watch their fuel consumption and armor plating, but they're far from helpless: they can hover over an enemy and unleash a barrage of bombs. Bombs can also dig up valuable ore, which funds upgrades.
Again, Demolition Lander: Universe is ambitious, and the very idea of arming a lunar lander with missiles is pretty attractive. Despite its control issues, there's still pleasure to be found in blowing craters in a planet's surface. Heck, at this point, real-world space exploration will probably only receive more funding if it contains more explosions.