A-Men Review (PlayStation Vita)

For this A-Men Review, we play a game brought to us by the Bloober Team, A-Men is a logical strategy game. Not for the faint-hearted, with old-school style game mechanics with nice graphics. The game gives you multiple ways to complete levels. Never the same game twice as you experiment and try new ways to beat each level. This is gaming but how you used to know it? now onto the review…

A-Men Review Pros:

• Vibrant cartoon-style graphics.
• Platinum Trophy.
• Cross-buy with the PlayStation 3 version.
• Full touchscreen control support.
• Easy simple controls mechanic enabling a pick-up and play mentality.
• Puzzle platformer gameplay.
• Clever but devious puzzle mechanic that will leave you feeling stupid on more than one occasion.
• Different characters with different abilities aid you in your quest for glory.
• Earn cash in-game to buy upgrades such as new outfits, more start-out ammo, etc…
• Completed levels are ranked on a grading system so tons of replayability, not to mention the many different ways there are to complete a level.
• Touch controls are well done and help gameplay a lot. No cheap shoehorned gimmick here.
• Side objectives make an appearance, again adding more replayability and more cash incentives.
• Great gameplay mechanics, like painting mines, breaking bridges, and turning the power off to elevators.
• Varied levels from the nice tranquil feel of the jungle to the frozen ice caps.
• Long story mode which is made as long as your skill level remains.

A-Men Review Cons:

• AI can see you and charge at you way before you see them, usually due to them being off-screen.
• Difficulty overall is high, could be too high for some people.
• Button prompts for weapons/interactions can be delayed or the buttons change usually in the heat of battle, which usually results in wasting resources.
• Could really do with a full zoom-out camera view.
• A hint marker system could help the more novice player.

Link to the Steam version as the PlayStation version is now unavailable.