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Review: Heli Rescue Saves Some Gameplay
Price: $0.99
App Store Link: Full / No Lite Version
Verdict: Like It
Replay Value: High
A very good entry in the time/resource management genre.
Heli Rescue is a really good game in the time/resource management genre. The basic idea behind the game is that you're the air traffic controller for a fleet of helicopters trying to rescue people from the wilderness. Your fleet consists of a few different variations of helicopters: A one passenger, quick helicopter; A two person, medium speed helicopter; A four person, slow speed helicopter. You are also given a set number of helicopter pads to work with, generally one less than the number of helicopters you've been given.
When a rescuee pops up on the screen they give a yell letting you know they are there as well as a status ring. The status ring ranges from green to red. Green means there's no rush, red means they're about to die. Should a rescuee die it is game over. The rescuees will also pop up in groups ranging from one to four. In order to rescue a person you need to map a path for a helicopter, using your finger, pick them up, and take them back to the helicopter pad. This is where the resource management kicks in because there are only so many pads to land on. In addition each helicopter has a set amount of fuel which can only be replenished at the helicopter pad.
As far as the presentation of this app goes, it is very well done starting with the airlift during the loading the screen, to the sign in for each pilot profile, to the actual gameplay itself. As far as controls go they seem to work pretty well. The helicopter will follow the path drawn by your finger very accurately. It also has a snap to target feature that works most of the time to make sure the helicopter will pick people up or land at the helicopter pad. I do say most of the time because sometimes the targets are too close together or you draw a little too far passed the target. At least the path stays up so you can see that you did in fact miss the target.
In terms of replay the main goal of the game is to rescue as many people as you can in each of three different maps. There is an online leader board so you can keep track of your actual ranking (and even though it only shows the top 10, it will tell you your high scores current position.
Overall I feel this game was done very well and if you like time/resource management games you'll definitely like this one.
