

The engine has been used to make some very fancy computer games, and it can now scale down to mobile devices. The game looks good: There's a lot of visual detail, animation, and vivid color going on, thanks to the Unreal engine. You can also hang back and fire projectiles, and then dash forward to close the distance. When you hit or get hit, a gauge at the bottom of the screen gradually fills up, and when it turns green, you tap on it to unload a particularly damaging combo. There's no jumping mechanism, but you can dodge to the side by swiping up or down on your fighter, and block by long tapping. ProsĬonsistently engaging combat: When your guy lands a punch or kick, there's a real sense of impact, and the touch controls (tap the enemy for a light attack, swipe right for a medium attack, long tap for a heavy attack) are intuitive and responsive.

However, while the game's combat can be satisfyingly crunchy, the trappings of the free-to-play app economy might turn you off. This free-to-play one-on-one fighting game takes cues from Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, but it features our favorite brawling bots of the Transformers franchise instead of Ryu, Ken, or Sub-Zero. Giant robots fighting each other never seems to get old, and Transformers are a tributary of the 80s nostalgia river flowing through pop culture these days.

In retrospect, a game like Transformers: Forged to Fight was kind of inevitable.
