![]() ![]() There’s very little more to the action than that, but there’s a pace and sense of feedback to the combat that shows somebody at Gameloft clearly knows what they’re doing (or at least understands what Blizzard were doing).What complications there are revolve around levelling up your character and unlocking extra abilities and magic. Choosing to play as a warrior, rogue or mage you’re able to immediately wade into battle mashing the ‘X’ button as hard as possible. What counts as a story is hurriedly recounted in a few short (and mostly unvoiced) cut scenes and simply involves the usual ancient evil and Tolkien-esque fantasy world in peril.The storytelling isn’t an issue though and in terms of combat this does get the basics right. Instead it’s pretty typical shovelware and although all the features just about work they do so grudgingly and with absolutely no flair.If you’re not familiar with Diablo or other dungeon crawlers this is a game obsessed with only two things: combat and looting. There have been three Dungeon Hunter games so far on iPhone, but this is based on the version released on the PlayStation Network last April.Considering that version is priced at £9.99 and this is trying to sell itself for £35, you might gather that this not the greatest bargain amongst the PS Vita’s launch line-up. You name it, they’ve cloned it, but the Dungeon Hunter series is one of their more popular – perhaps because the real thing is currently only available on PC. ![]() If you guess Diablo then pat yourself on the back⦠and make sure you never buy the game.Gameloft seem to have found a very profitable niche for themselves copying other people’s games for release on smartphones. If you also know your game developers then the involvement of Gameloft guarantees that it must be a clone of some sort. If you know anything about video games then you will have already realised that, with a name like that, this must be a role-player of some description. Dungeon Hunter: Alliance (PSV) – costly battle
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