However, none of this prevents Infiltrator from feeling like a solid action title in its own right. Thankfully these are largely avoidable given correct positioning and judicious use of abilities like Pull to change the angle of attack. Occasionally this is impossible to do with precision as their target boxes often overlap and even when you do get the right person you'll sometimes be provided with a firing line that intersects with the environment. Whether you attack with mass effect powers or your weapons you'll need to select enemies directly. However, firing your weapons requires you to be static, placing you in harm's way unless you've mastered an area and know where to stand to avoid incoming fire. Randall is ostensibly controlled via a simple twin-stick system of moving with one side of the screen and looking around / aiming with the other. This is easier said than done though as the controls waver between gloriously efficient to horrifically frustrating. As you run through the game's detailed environments you'll engage in tactical scrims where the player is rewarded for quickly dispatching enemies and mixing up their abilities to earn 'style' points.

In a way you can think of Infiltrator as a pocket-sized version of the full game in that combat takes less of a direct action approach and more of a tactical one. In Infiltrator you play as Randall, a cybernetically enhanced soldier produced by Cerberus' research facilities and predictably things go very, very wrong, so it's up to you and your trusty arsenal of weapons and 'mass effect' powers to alert the Alliance of what has happened.

Somewhere along the storyline, the mysterious agency known as Cerberus went from being a vicious human-first organization with no moral oversight in its research, to almost being de-fanged by the series' main hero, Commander Shepherd. Given that the third title in the Mass Effect series has just hit it's no surprise to see EA and Bioware giving the green-light to an iOS title, but IronMonkey Studios have gone above and beyond to make Mass Effect Infiltrator a game worthy of play all on its own. When you have a successful franchise, you need only slap a name on to a product with a marked-up price and wallow in the profits. If there's one thing that's likely to get gamers riled up, it's a tie-in product.

Mass Effect for iphone download