Speed Forge Extreme

Speed Forge Extreme is a 3D space racing action game [by Chillingo]. The action is happening in 2142, humans have started to colonize planet Mars, and settlements have been developed to house people who are mining valuable raw materials of the Red Planet. You are racing in hovering spacecrafts(why?), that look a lot like pods from Star Wars episode I. You start your game by choosing hovercraft and track you would like to race on.

Prepare for some action! You can control your your pod by tilting your device or by tapping corresponding buttons on the screen, you also have option to enable or disable auto-acceleration.

You are racing to be first of 3 laps. But it’s not that easy. This is action game, along the track you will face interruptions, speed boosts – and you enemies will shoot at you, so you are advised to do the same. My advice to you is to use control option that will accelerate automatically, since you will have enough to worry about on the track, such as blasting rival hovercrafts.

There are different weapons to shoot your targets, and handy aim system that will advise you to shoot by fixing red target on your enemy. As you win tracks you will be exposed to more hovercrafts to choose from, they all have unique settings – mass, speed, agility, engine, munition – and this may affect your racing. You may get used to one certain pod and will all the track with it if you are good enough with your guns.

Game graphics are very well designed and give you real futuristic and out of space feel. Sounds are okay, and flexible controls are what gives you better comfort, you can play with accelerometer support while your are seated still and with on-screen control if you are passenger of a vehicle on a bumpy road. Sensitivity of accelerometer is configurable too.

What I like:

• Futuristic feel of the game
• Good graphics and 3D engine
• Action aspect of the game – power ups, weapons, shoot enemies, getting shot
• Flexible controls

What I dislike:

• Quite pricey racing game at £2.25