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Top 5 shooters on bada

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Top 5 shooters on bada
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It might not be the most heartwarming feature of human nature, but give a small boy a bit of broken branch and he'll inevitably imaginise it into a machine gun. Or a flamethrower. Or a sniper rifle.

This isn't a state of affairs that was created by the shooter game genre. There have been cork and spud guns annoying parents for as long as we've been drinking wine and eating chips.

But the video game medium is certainly a great outlet for that deeply buried, irrefutably bad-ass property of man. Here are five bad-ass shooters that you can find on Samsung's bada platform.

N.O.V.A. - Near Orbital Vanguard Alliance

You could easily argue that sci-fi shooters have been well and truly trodden into the ground by established console franchises like Halo and Killzone.

But not on mobile, and it was no surprise when portable clone-meister Gameloft brought the genre to iPhone. N.O.V.A. takes so many of its visual cues from Master Chief and co. that at first glance you could mistake it for Halo Mobile.

But that's no bad thing. The 13-level single-player campaign lets you terminate hapless aliens using different six weapons (assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, handgun, rocket launcher, and plasma gun) giving you plenty of bang for your buck.

Modern Combat: Sandstorm

If N.O.V.A. is Halo, then Modern Combat is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

In Modern Combat: Sandstorm you're tasked with disrupting a terrorist cell recruitment processes, waist-deep in sand and up to the neck in guns.

It's not all deserted dunes, though. There are also Middle Eastern city, hospital, sewer, port, lab, and training camp levels to tear up with an epic array of weaponry.

Space Hell

It's not only the big guns (geddit?) who are pooling their resources to put together prime time shooter titles. Have a look at Marcin Nowak's Space Hell, a side-scrolling shooter with physics puzzles and accelerometer mini-games bunged in for good measure.

The puzzles imbue the game with excellent pacing, letting you split your time between vaporising enemies, traversing moving platforms, and sliding blocks.

It doesn't look half bad, either, thanks to touches like atmospheric lighting.

The Last Man on Mars

While The Last Man on Mars may not tap into the sense of isolation and emotional strain that would inevitably come with deep space abandonment (a la Duncan Jones's 2009 film Moon), it does give you the opportunity to scream frantically as you defend your final inevitable resting place from a neverending horde intergalactic hooligans.

You'll need to hide behind cover, utilise bottle neck corridors, and fortify your base with turrets and upgrades if you want to survive long enough to play with the big guns.

Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front HD

What would a top five shooter list be without a game featuring the most replicated real life conflict in video games?

Brothers In Arms 2 brings the home console series directly to your bada, with 13 levels of balls-to-the-wall action over five locations including the Pacific, Normandy, North Africa, Germany, and Sicily.

While it certainly isn't the emotional rollercoaster of its forebears on console, it's hard to argue with its rollicking gameplay. MEDIC!

Disclosure: Steel Media is running the bada Student Developer Challenge in conjunction with Samsung.
Matt Sakuraoka-Gilman
Matt Sakuraoka-Gilman
When Matt was 7 years old he didn't write to Santa like the other little boys and girls. He wrote to Mario. When the rotund plumber replied, Matt's dedication to a life of gaming was established. Like an otaku David Carradine, he wandered the planet until becoming a writer at Pocket Gamer.