Five Reasons to play Mr Lone Hero - Unit102 Games’ Wild West shooter, available for iOS and Android
- Mr Lone Hero is a Wild West themed shooter recently released for iOS and Android
- Enjoy endless replayability thanks to a simple gameplay mechanic with a high ceiling
- Experience over 11 locations and over 50 bounty missions
If there is one constant across all media, it is that cowboys are incredibly cool. Red Dead Redemption, of course, immortalised them in gaming, but Rockstar were not the first, nor will they be the last. But what if you don’t have time, with those pesky grown-up responsibilities, to spend hours trekking across the Wild West? Well, Mr Lone Hero might be the answer to your Stetson-based dreams.
Invokes the Wild West feeling very well
Something that we loved during our sessions was the general feeling of it all. Mr Lone Hero captures the wild western look incredibly well with the menu’s style, invoking the sense that you are looking at a wanted poster or an old bulletin board. The play button being the back of a revolver with the cylinder rotating with a satisfying click when you tap it is endlessly cool.
Special mention definitely needs to go to the music as well, our praise for this could take up the whole article. It takes the old west style of music and blends it with a modern dance track in such a successful way. You will dance along to it whether it is your first visit or your hundredth, and we haven’t even got onto the gameplay.
Simple Gameplay with a high ceiling
When you jump into your first level, you will notice fairly quickly that the combat system isn’t the most in-depth. Our hero is waving their gun up and down, and you need to tap the screen to shoot. But you would be wildly mistaken for thinking this is going to be a simple time.To begin with, it is shockingly easy to miss if you aren’t paying attention, at which point your opponent shoots back and destroys you. At higher levels, your foe will also start packing on armour that narrows your target area, or you will have hostages roaming around that you can’t hit. Unit102 Games has added a huge level of skill to this simple mechanic.
Gameplay will stay fresh thanks to new threats and procedural generation
The further you advance through the levels, the more tricky mechanics you will start to encounter. As mentioned above, you will quickly encounter feckless hostages wandering in front of your bullets and shields, some of which move. These are only some of the tricky features thrown at you, sometimes literally.Enemies will start lobbing Molotov cocktails, which you must shoot out of the sky with the oscillating aiming, and dogs will launch themselves at you in much the same manner. Add to this the fact that every stage is randomly generated, so you can’t memorise any pattern, every time you play will feel fresh and will stop your skills from getting rusty.
A host of locations to experience
There are two modes to play Mr Lone Hero: Story and Bounties. While Bounties are more for amassing gold and giving yourself a tough challenge, the story takes you through a host of western-style areas. You will start in a Saloon before venturing into a Bank and other places you will find Cowboys kicking back.Each of these locations is packing its own background style to make you feel like you are in a Western film, but they also have different music to give you a bigger sense of progression. There will be plenty of time to experience each location thanks to the 20 levels and their hard mode variants.
