3 reasons to get excited for FPS MMO Shadowgun Legends

By , on August 30, 2016
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Shadowgun Legends looks a little bit special doesn't it? It's all shiny and pew-pew and exciting and I think we can all agree we wouldn't mind having a crack at it at soon as possible. But what is it that's got our juices flowing, what is it that's got us scratching our skin in anticipation at all the shooty bang-bang goodness? Let's take a closer look.

Look at it!

I mean, the first thing that jumps out at you about the game is just how good it looks. Look at the screenshots, look at the video, look at how shiny and lovely it is. Madfinger is known for knocking the visuals of its games so far out of the park that they land in another park, bounce once, then end up in a third park.

And that's exactly what the dev has done again. Everything looks like it's been turned up a notch, way past the quality of the original Shadowgun games. It's the sort of game that you're going to load up just to show your friends what your phone can do.

Shooting!

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The other thing that Madfinger is known for is its shoot bang-bang work. If you think about shooters on the App Store, then it's probably the dev that you think about first. The likes of the Dead Trigger series and Unkilled showed just how much meat you can put on a mobile shooter's bones and still have it work.

And that pedigree looks like it's been extended into Shadowgun Legends. It's a beefy slab of action that wouldn't look out of place on a console, and it's built around the experience that the team has earned over a good few years of making the best bangy-bangers on iOS.

Depth!

One of the accusations often thrown at mobile gaming is that it lacks depth. Shadowgun Legends offers a persistent online world full of things to do. It's a shooter wrapped up in an MMO jumper, much like Bungie's brilliant Destiny. But it goes in your pocket.

There are tough raids that need you to work together with other players, using tactics rather than brute force. There's a whole mess of gear and weapons to create, and you can customise your character to stand out in a universe that could have millions of players.