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Daily iPhone App: Infinity Blade 2

by Mike Schramm Dec 1st 2011 at 8:00AM

Yes, it's out. Go get it right now.

Oh, you're still here? Well then I guess I'll tell you that Infinity Blade is even bigger and better than before. There are now multiple classes and play styles, including dual wield and two-handed in addition to the standard sword-and-board hack and slash gameplay. You can now forge your own weapons and upgrade them with gems, explore a much bigger and more exciting world, and see a little bit of story along the way.

Combat itself has been tweaked and fixed up, so parries are much smoother to pull off, which is good, because there are new enemies and attacks, too. In other words, Infinity Blade demonstrated how to make a brilliant iOS game, and Infinity Blade 2 is the idea expanded and writ large.

There's even more to come, as Chair has promised more updates. Since first title eventually got free content, level cap raises and a multiplayer update, it's a good bet this game will get the same post-release attention.

In short, Infinity Blade 2 is as triple-A as iOS games get. Consider that top-shelf console games sell around US$59.99, and it's quite nice that iOS gamers can get ours at just $6.99. Chair and Epic are still setting the bar for major studio gaming on the iPhone, and this time they knocked it up there pretty darn high.



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greg

Don't buy it yet!
It's buggy, has connection issues with iCloud (I think) which causes the game to reset and it's extremely slow on the iphone 4. Framerate is ridiculous, wish there was a money back button :(

December 04 2011 at 7:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dorjesyber

So it checking around I'm not the only one crashing with an older iPod or iPad 1. Read over on another site that EA thinks its due to devices having large numbers of Apps on the home screens, hogging memory, and that they didn't test for that...

Seriously? According to Nieslen data iOS users have an average of 48 Apps on their device. I'd easly believe power users who'd be interested in buying a game like Infintiy Balde on launch day would have even more. How does that not come up? Oh... right they apparently did a 6 month crunch to get this done for the holidays instead of adding a few extra months and shipping right as the iPad 3 released.

Personally I'm not upset and am sure they'll get it fixed. What that does tell me (and anyone else) how important RAM still is. Perhaps Apple could cache the icons on the SSD memory. Although in the long run I'll stand by my advice this holiday season. Do not buy any iOS device with less then the A5 and a full 512 MB of RAM if you want your device to keep on the top end for three years. Even the A4 iPod Touch should not be considered a "high end" buy.

December 02 2011 at 9:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andrew Holybee

cool beans

December 01 2011 at 1:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

Disregard my earlier comment. I thought I had read previously that this was a 4S exclusive. Apparently the 4S and iPad 2 just get beefier graphics. That's fun.

December 01 2011 at 11:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Colin Castro

Blade one dropped in price so many times I felt ripped off, I'll wait for it to go on sale.

December 01 2011 at 11:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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dorjesyber

For 6.99 this is hardly a rip-off. Now Square-Enix $20+ ports of old NES and SNES titles, that's a rip-off.

Given the amount of free updates and add-ons to 1 I'm more then happy to pay a full price sub 10 dollars. If this had been a PSP or DS game it would have easily been 30 dollars with no possibility of updates.

My only disappointment is that voice acting wasn't more Faux-Latin. :(

December 01 2011 at 3:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BlueSpider

Did you notice that your games transfers from device to device. I started on my 4s then resumed on my ipad... that is a really sweet addition!!!

December 01 2011 at 11:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shannon Doherty

I've heard the first gets repetitive and tedious, wouldn't this just be the same since it's the same concept? Just wondering if i should splurge or not

December 01 2011 at 11:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BlueSpider

Did you notice that it resumes your game from device to device? I started on my 4s then continued where I left off on my iPad... that is a sweet addition!!

December 01 2011 at 11:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

Downloaded it/tried it out quick this morning. Looks gorgeous as always. What impresses me is that Chair said it's about 4x the content and the file size is under what Infinity Blade I is. Can't wait to dig into it!

December 01 2011 at 9:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

Yup, I'm still here. Because I don't have a 4S.

December 01 2011 at 9:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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