Guns of Boom fra Game Insight er et skytespill på mobil som nettopp nådde 30 millioner spillere. Da vi var i London nylig fikk vi muligheten til å slå av en prat med CEO ved Game Insight', Anatoly Ropotov, om spillet, og hvordan det fyller en esportnisje som andre mobilspill ikke gjør.
"Guns of Boom is like an emerging, mobile, first[-person] shooter game," forklarte han. "It's the most accessible mobile first-person shooter out there. It kind of plays like any other first-person shooter on steroids. This sounds really bad awkward to the pro esports players but you don't have to aim, press shoot button, crouch, jump - but I think that's part of the appeal of the title, that makes it so accessible on mobile. You can finally just enjoy the FPS gameplay versus focusing on awkward controls and trying to find all the buttons and things like that."
Vi spurte også om Ropotov mener Guns of Boom fyller et hull i markedet for mobilspill, og det var han helt overbevist om at det gjør.
"Yeah absolutely," sa han. "We figured out there is no definite FPS game on mobile somehow. So many great games came out throughout the years like [...] Critical Ops and Modern Combat 5 is great, and there are just a couple of good games, and a lot of them have even reached a pretty good scale, but something actually never clicked with these games. I think it's more of a pay-to-win element, the lack of fully esports-centric modes that are more about fair play, so something that was already missing, and I think the barrier of entry into those games with the awkward controls has always been there."
"So now we figured out that if we could bring all the casual players and esports players together in one place that's gonna be a much more vibrant and stable community, so that's what we hope to achieve with Guns of Boom in the upcoming months."
Synes du Guns of Boom er et bedre skytespill til mobil enn andre spill?