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Colosseum

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No genre is as mindlessly bloody as the side-scrolling hack and slasher. Who knows how many trillions of goons have been butchered in the 2D confines of this most brutal of game types?

Gamevil's Colloseum is a side-on swords-and-sorcery epic full of death and gore, letting you indulge in plenty of senseless, pretext-less ultra-violence.

But, while the slaughter is fun for a while, there's only so many virtual lives you can end before even murder starts to feel a bit rinse-and-repeat.

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The game casts you in the role of a plucky gladiator who's thrown into the titular Colosseum to battle hordes of terrifying orcs.

You have to use all the weapons, potions, and cunning at your disposal to despatch the green skins, find the keys, and move on to the next level.

Every monster you kill drops something - either money, which you can spend on new weapons and armour at the between levels shop, or buffs for your armour, strength, speed, and health.

On-screen buttons move you left and right, and you have up to four slots in which to equip your weaponry. Once you've unlocked all four slots, the screen gets a little crowded, and there's no way of getting rid of them.

Orc-ward movements

You begin your gladiatorial career with a simple scimitar and some throwing knives, but as you earn more gold you can tool yourself up and become an armour-clad, shield-bearing, super-axe-wielding knight who throws bombs. That's right, bombs.

As you get stronger, so too do the beasts assailing you, but the game never really gets past its simple hacking, slashing, and throwing fundamentals. That's not a terrible thing, because hacking, slashing, and throwing are all a lot of fun, but Colloseum lacks even the illusion of depth.

For a quick blast of side-scrolling fantasy gut-rupturing, Colosseum is perfect, but it gets too repetitive too quickly to earn a place among the must-buy Android titles.

Colosseum

It might be shallow and repetitive, but that doesn't change the fact that Colosseum is still an awful lot of fun
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Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.