Midnight Star: Renegade

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Midnight Star: Renegade
Developer(s) Industrial Toys (iOS)
Publisher(s) Industrial Toys
Writer(s) John Scalzi
Composer(s) Serj Tankian
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s) iOS
ReleaseAugust 11, 2016 (iOS)
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer

Midnight Star: Renegade is a science fiction mobile shooting game developed by Industrial Toys, the second game in the Midnight Star series. It was soft released in March 2016 for iOS devices. [1] Set 120 years after the events of Midnight Star, the game takes players to new areas. [2] It was released on iOS on 11 August 2016.

Science fiction Genre of speculative fiction

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that has been called the "literature of ideas". It typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, time travel, parallel universes, fictional worlds, space exploration, and extraterrestrial life. It often explores the potential consequences of scientific innovations.

Industrial Toys

Industrial Toys is an American developer/publisher of mobile games headquartered in Pasadena, California. It produces mobile games for core gamers and released its first title, Midnight Star, in early 2015. In July 2018, Electronic Arts acquired the company.

<i>Midnight Star</i> (video game)

Midnight Star is a first-person shooter video game developed by Industrial Toys, the company's debut product. It was released on February 5, 2015 for iOS devices, with other platforms to be available later. Set 120 years into the future, the game takes players aboard the MSRV-Joplin, a research vessel newly outfitted with military weaponry to explore a mysterious signal coming from within the Solar System. When disaster strikes, the Joplin crew is transported across the universe to take part in a war that is not their own.

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Gameplay

Midnight Star: Renegade is a mobile sci-fi shooter that requires the player to complete combat missions and upgrade weapons in order to advance through the game. The gameplay includes crafting rifles and pistols that shoot bullets, electricity or rockets and there are many other combinations when creating weapons.

Plot

The story is told via emails received at the end of each level.

Reception

Touch Arcade says that it is "a pretty brilliant kind of way to design a first-person shooter". [3] Pocket Gamer says it is a streamlined version of Midnight Star, and it is a lesser game because of it; the objectives, enemies, and locations are repetitive, and the controls are more clumsy and cumbersome, since, in addition to aiming your weapon, the player needs to swipe in order to move in a direction (its predecessor moved the player on rails). [4]

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References

  1. ↑ GDC 2016: 'Midnight Star: Renegade' from Industrial Toys March 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Announcing Midnight Star: Renegades! March 1, 2016
  3. ↑ Midnight Star Renegade Touch Arcade, 11 August 2016
  4. ↑ Midnight Star: Renegade review - An FPS that works on mobile? Pocket Gamer, 11 August 2016
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