
Or you can select the Bro of a real but offline friend. This can be a human player, selected by registering a multiplayer account (the game supports Game Center and OpenFeint). Oh brother.Īll the time you're fighting off wave after wave of enemies you're accompanied by a Bro. They're pretty much a real money proportion though and are required for some of the better weapons and items.Įach enemy downed earns you XP as well, increasing your character's Speed, Attack, and Defence stats as you level-up. These are harder to earn for free but you can get them by downloading other apps. There's also a secondary currency called War Bucks. With the money you earn from collecting and refining Explodium (you convert it to gold coins at various rates depending on your refinery), you can get new guns and armour or unlock new worlds to fight on. Smartillery isn’t the only thing your gold coin goes on, however.



There are airstrikes that wipe all enemies off the screen at once, health grenades to revive you, and power-ups that put you into a rage, increasing all your stats. This allows you to use items and power-ups bought between sessions.Īnd boy is there a lot to buy: after all, this is a free game that hopes to make its money via in-app purchases. You fend off waves of enemies using the usual control scheme – one on-screen stick to move and the other to rotate and fire.Ī separate button switches between your two equipped weapons, and although it’s small and can be unresponsive, you won’t really need it that often because it’s so easy to find a favourite weapon and stick to it for the entire session.Īnother tiny button brings up your Smartillery menu. Glu Mobile's freemium twin-stick shooter Gun Bros is at least faithful to real life in this regard - although in real life you and your brother probably aren’t firing bullets at everything that comes within ten feet of you. When they aren’t following you about (younger), or trying to stick your head down the toilet (older), they just sort of get in the way.

You’re not really allowed to say that – because your mother will clip the back of your head – but it’s true.
