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Super Secret Service

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There's a brilliant bounce to Super Secret Service. From its chunky pixellated graphics to the ridiculous objects you're trying to stop, everything feels like it was put together with a smile.

And that smile neatly masks the painfully addictive highscore chaser you're getting yourself into from the first time you boot up the game.

This is two-tap arcade action at its most delightful, as irreverent as its gameplay is chiselled. You'll cackle, you'll fail, and you'll start the bonkers process all over again.

Yes sir

The aim of the game is protection. You control a cadre of agents who are sworn to protect the president's life. To do that, they need to fling themselves in harms way.

Each game takes place in a hall. At one end the president is giving a speech and at the other sit the audience. And through that audience run enemies of freedom intent on silencing the leader of the free world.

They jog through and toss out a projectile of some sort. There are tomatoes, guns, paper aeroplanes, and more. You need to tap on the left or right of the screen to send one of your sentries diving in front of whatever's tossed.

Succeed and another agent takes the place of the hero. Fail and the president dies and your score is reset.

All in a day's work

As you play the assailants speed up. Some projectiles boomerang back on themselves as well, and leaping for them can leave you without a shield for a real threat.

You can nab presents as well that build a fortification around the big boss and essentially act as an extra life.

Super Secret Service crackles with neat ideas, and its simple gameplay is broad enough to carry them. It looks great, it sounds great, and it feels fresh. If you're looking for a new quick-fire arcade blast, this one comes highly recommended.

Super Secret Service

A bright, engaging arcade game with enough zip to keep anyone entertained for a good long while
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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.