Supreme Heroes

This is a freemium game review, in which we give our impressions immediately after booting a game up, again after three days, and finally after seven days. That's what the strange sub-headings are all about. Click on the link to jump straight to day three.

Free-to-play card collecting and battling games are hardly a rare occurrence on the Google Play Store.

In fact, there are so many that there's probably at least one tailored to your own particular theme of preference, whether that be Star Trek, pirates, or Victorian tableware.

Okay - probably not that last one.

Among the most newest titles on the market is EA's Supreme Heroes, and and it seeks to tap right into your love of comics and superheroes.

Seeing as I'm a sucker for most things superhero-related Supreme Heroes already has me hooked in for some crime-fighting fun.

After being whisked through the tutorial - which boils down to pressing a button and waiting to see whether I've won a Top-Trumps-style battle based on my character attributes -I can start to customise my hero and lose myself in menus.

And I really mean that - there's an abundance of menu screens here, all waiting for you to merge abilities together (known as "mutating") or fuse equip-able items to increase your power.

The meat of the game is in playing missions and levelling-up so that you can face off against others in PvP online battles.

These missions, while slickly presented in comic-book style editions and story arcs, come down to little more than pressing a button over and over until your energy depletes.

Once this happens you'll have to wait for it to replenish (which it seems to do rather quickly) or purchase a full-heal using the in-game currency of Supremium.

So far, you level-up so quickly that you don't really need to bother with this. And when you do, it's of little concern as you get 40 Supremium just for connecting to Facebook, which also allows you to utilise cloud saves and play online against others.

So far, Supreme Heroes looks to be a rather generic, if slickly produced, card-battler.

The adventure continues, and I’ve returned to the first story arc to gain more experience before moving onto newly unlocked mission arcs.

It’s still very much a case of tapping away on a button as the amount of energy you have in reserve depletes. Battles still feel very much like Top Trumps, and, generally, nothing has really picked up pace or changed.

Even my Supremium levels have remained high. I’m still receiving enough refresh items to keep my energy levels high, and when they run low I don’t feel overly put out by waiting for a little while.

I’ve also seen little to no need to pick up booster packs, largely because I’ve been getting plenty of card packs for finishing missions. Perhaps they’ll play a larger role when I reach a higher level.