Gun Gang

I don't normally write reviews, but one really bothered me! I had seen this game several times and I was trying to find for a while because it looked really fun to play! Obviously I finally found and started playing, but I have uninstalled it after less than 30 mins of play because of the ridiculous amount of ads! At the end of each level you have the option to watch an ad for more coins, but even if you opt not to watch the ad for more coins you still get an ad before the next level! And, even if you watch the ad for more coins, you will also get ads before the next level. The levels are fairly short, and the amount of ad time that have to sit through is often longer than the time it takes to clear a level! Of course if you really love the game you can spend real money to remove the ads. Not worth it in my opinion. I would not recommend this game to anyone unless you don't mind the ads or if you are ok with paying to remove all the ads.

Edit: “No ads” actually means “no ads” now! I can now say that this is a great time-killing game, and definitely worth getting. As I usually do if I decide I like a game, I paid money to get rid of ads. In most games, that gets rid of any ads that you don’t opt into (like playing an ad to unlock the next gun or to multiply how many coins you get for a level). In Gun Gang, though, it only gets rid of the ads between levels—the banner ads stay there. They don’t even just show up at the start of a level—they stay there. If I had known that “no ads” would still leave the annoying banner ads there, I wouldn’t have paid for it. If it weren’t for that, it would be a fun little game, 4-5 stars; but when I pay to get rid of ads, I expect banner ads to be included in that.

So first, this is a really fun game, easy to understand and easy to play for a minute or an hour. It would get five stars.... Except first, as so many other reviews have said, it crashes at the end of a run. That’s not terrible at lower levels, because it’s fun to replay the run and win again. As you get up in levels it’s extremely frustrating to get to the end of a run (with all the BS that entails, see below) and then have the app crash. Again. And again. Second, the ads. Playing a game for free implies that you will watch some ads, and I don’t have a problem with that basic arrangement. It’s totally fair for this game to offer three times the reward if you watch an ad at the end of the run. But I seriously resent being forced to watch an ad after every run, some of which are 15 seconds or longer. It’s quite possible that you will spend more time watching ads than playing. It’s all about choices: this developer chooses to run ads that interfere with the game, and I choose to delete the game.