Score Hero (Compact ANDROID review)
Hello Steemians. This is a compact review of one of my favourite android games. I have been playing it for a while now, and I love it more than Candy Crush.
Starting the game with an opener, all you need are your fingers and the ability to swipe. An accurate swipe prevents you from getting behind bars, and having to frown or get angry at why things didn't work out.
OPENER
The game opens as a pitch with a footballer, and a football by his side.
This poses a theme of total control.
A little gray effect is splashed around.
A goal at the top and beneath, giving us this look of a perfect football pitch with its interior wiped out.
It poses a one man theme, which dictates dominance.
There are four responsive buttons so you don't lose your way around.
The 'play' button is in red. The rest in blue are:
•Connect
•LIKE
•Follow
They are all linked to the game's media handle.
Touching the play button means you are ready to shoot, strike, defend, midfield and score.
THE STORY
You get to choose a player; the very one you would transform into a hero.
You start out with a team, stop them from going into relegation and from there, make them top clubs.
You get an automatic transfer to a bigger club. You need to keep scoring all the goals, and completing all the assists in your care.
OBJECTIVE
The game starts out with objectives. I will be doing a random objective pointer.
Below are screen shots of random objectives
A player gets tackled in the box and these objectives come up:
1A. SCORE WITH HERO
1B. SCORE LEFT BOTTOM
1C. SCORE ONE GOAL
These simply mean you should score the kick with the hero and make sure you place the ball to the bottom left side of the goal. If you fulfill all the objectives, you would have 3 stars for the match.
If you fail any of the objectives, the amount of stars gets reduced by 1
You can't get lesser than 1 star as long as the goal is scored.
Objective 2.
2. MAKE ASSIST WITH YOUR HERO
This is not too complex. You get to move the ball from one point to another, making sure the opponents don't touch it.
You make sure your hero passes the ball to the player who will score the goal on your team.
Objective 3
3. SCORE AT BOTTOM SIDE
This means the player should shoot the ball aiming at the left or right bottom side. Anything other than this would score, but the point for a bottom side score won't be counted.
Objective 4
4. SCORE AT TOP CORNER
This means the player has to shoot the ball at the upper part of the goal, right or left, determined by the specific objective in the instruction.
Objective 5
5. HIT THE CROSSBAR
This means your player has to make sure the ball hits the crossbar before getting into the net.
This can easily be achieved from a long range. At a shorter range, the ball tends to hit the crossbar, then bounces out or is hit out by the opponent.
Objective 6
6. WOODWORK
This is very easy at close range. Here, you have to make sure your ball hits the sidebar before rolling into the net.
Objective 7
7. SCORE IN RANGES
Here, you'd be given yards to score within.
A non-football person might not be able to decipher this, but trying numerous times will see you through.
However, a football person who knows where those yards are, would find it easy to spot those yards and shoot at the post from there.
Objective 8
8. PLAY WITH TOUCHES
Here, you're mandated to make a certain number of touches before you score.
Extra Objectives
•SCORE TWICE WITH HERO
•HIT CROSSBAR TWICE
•MAKE ASSIST WITH HERO TWICE
GAME PLAY
You either move the ball from the golden kick till you reach the goal and score, while achieving any of the objectives above or,
You start with a free kick, and push the ball through the goal, or you start with a throw in.
On special occasions, you start the game from nowhere. You just find the ball in the hands of your teammate.
Your goal is to score, and achieve the given objectives without letting your opponent get the ball.
EXTRAS AND SET UP
This is the unique part of the game that makes sure you don't get bored and simply, implementation of features.
1. Life bar
This is a gauge of opportunity for the gamer to retry the game after failing an objective.
Whenever the life bar is empty, the gamer is required to rest and wait for a refill, or pay with unique coins mined by objective completion or with real life cash.
2. Timer
This comes up anytime you miss an opportunity. It asks for a recall in 60 seconds, each time you fail an objective or let an opponent get the ball out of your hands. Clicking on this won't make you start all over again, but to return to the previous failed move.
3. STAR
Every star you get at the end of each mission with completed given objectives, pushes you into the next season.
Screenshot below shows how many stars would be needed to get into the next level.
FEATURES
You can change your player's number, his beards and give him a new hairstyle as you make more cash.
The hairstyles are limited and may all not necessarily make your player look like a different player entirely.
You can also change your shoe colour, and choose the kind of sleeves you want.
DISADVANTAGES
Wondering what I feel about the game that I think isn't just right?
See what I have to say.
First, the graphics are a bit poor. Makes me feel everything is rigid.
The coach remains the same, even after changing clubs. Though might not necessarily share the same name, but there are no changes.
You can't play it on a low memory. This is common with every game with a large size.
I think it's awkward when you don't know the objectives before you start playing a certain stage.
The objectives are shown when you are done with the stage, so before then, you play blindly, waste life bar and waste the money earned to refix timer, and refill the life bar.
DOWNLOAD REQUIREMENT
It can work well on any android device or tab with OS above 4.0 and 500 MB RAM.
OVERALL REVIEW
Audio 9/10
Graphics 8/10
Control 9/10
Flexibility 9/10
All IMAGES ARE GOTTEN FROM SCREENSHOT ON MY ANDRIOD PHONE