Shake Spears!
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Release Date: July 13^th, 2011
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Platforms: iOS, Android, PS Vita, PS3
Genre: Battle, Action
Players: 1 - 2
Rating: 8.5/10

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Synopsis

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Shake Spears is a game of GLORY, HONOR, and FAME! Become a valiant knight and enter tournaments to compete for the heart of a beautiful lady. Travel through FOUR worlds of wonder, win battles in 20 cities, and beat challenging bosses in this epic game. It's time to become a HERO for the ages!

Take out opponents with well-aimed strikes in knightly competitions of strategy and precision! Only a steady hand and a trusty steed can guarantee your victory! Upgrade your skills, armor, and weapons, and remember to use a dash of magic to overtake your enemies. Will you answer the call of destiny and become the most honored knight in the land? THEN SHAKE YOUR SPEAR!

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Aim/Objective

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The aim of this game is to progress through all of the battles and area, and to get to the end. Other objectives would maybe be to buy all of the upgrades, complete all battles with the full three stars. One could even attempt to do all this playing with each of the 4 different classes, Knight, Mechanic, Warlock and Alchemist. There are many goals or aims that the player could strive to achieve, but they would be solely up to them to decide.

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Gameplay

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In this game you play as one of four classes; Knight, Mechanic, Warlock and Alchemist. Each of these classes give you advantages, disadvantages and other different special things to use against your enemies. In this game you go through increasingly difficult stages where you must joust against enemies where you both seek to eliminate one another. You both fight on horseback with a lance and a shield, the horses charge against each other from the opposite sides of the screen and you must devise your own tactics to win. After you have met and done your damage to each other, the horses go back to their starting positions and the same happens until one of you is eliminated. To gain an upper hand on your opponent, you must effectively move your lance and shield up or down to attack and defend in the right places to cause the most damage, and take as little as you can. When you battle, you earn money which you can use in-between games to buy special abilities that can be used once in each battle, and in an infinite number of battles. These abilities range from making your lance break your opponent's shield on impact (which will last for the rest of the game), shields that will break your opponent's lance on impact (which will last for 1 round) and abilities which will make you move faster, shields that will attract your opponent's lance to them and many others that do different things and have different advantages which can be game changing. To go into battles in this game, you traverse a map, going along paths of towers and castles which each have 5 battles in them. If you lose one battle in each castle, then your progress in that castle is reset back to the first battle. In other words you have to win 5 battles in a row to progress in the game which is why it is very important to make sure you keep your armor and abilities upgraded so you are not at a disadvantage to your enemies. In this game you can also battle against real players who are connected on another device, it works the same as it does when you are battling the computer, but you both control the players yourselves.

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Graphics

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I like the graphics in this game because they suit the theme of the game well and are nice and smooth overall. In the battles there is a clean, highly detailed landscape of a castle with the fields and mountains in the distance, this makes the atmosphere of the game more realistic and is just one of many features that makes it feel like you are really in the medieval times. When you are battling an opponent and you get to the point where you are very close and you are about to make contact, the game zooms in and the timeframe slows down to give a more accurate fight for both players. I really like the icons that are used for the abilities as they do a very good job of portraying their use in an image. When you are in game, the abilities don't have text on them saying what they do so a recognizable image is crucial.

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Audio

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The audio in this game is also another very nice feature. At every point in the game but battling, an upbeat background tune plays which makes you think of the medieval times instantly with the use of violins and acoustic guitar style music. The sound effects also really compliment the medieval theme of the game, when the players are battling is the point where they are most noticeable. There is a sound effect for every ability, each different class has its own unique tune to it, the alchemists one is very sp00ky, the knights tune is very firm and shows pride. The audio in this game can make a huge effect on the person playing it and in this game is is used very well.

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Controls

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The controls in this game are fairly simple although they are very important. To control the character's lance and shield, the player must place one finger on each side of the screen. Moving the finger up and down will move up or down the lance or shield depending on which side of the screen it was (right side of the screen controls the lance, left side controls the shield). At the bottom of the screen there is a bar which contains the player's usable abilities. It is very important that these are quickly accessible as a last moment change in ability can change a game entirely. If the game were to have some sort of drop down menu or any kind of selection system where multiple selections have to be made then it would be very bad for the fluidity of the game., the way that it is in the game right now is perfect.

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Facts

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• The game was released almost 4 years ago to this day, and is still regularly updated even though it does not seem to be a game that requires too high maintenance.
  
• On the game's [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] , there are leaderboards for the highest scoring players and countries as a whole!
  
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Rating

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Gameplay - 8.5/10
Graphics - 9/10
Audio - 8.5/10
Controls - 8.5/10
Overall - 8.5/10