It’s time to whip out your sword and walk endlessly to the right with Gamevil’s Colosseum There’s a few too many Android games out there that feel like a flash port hastily put together in a week. While this isn’t the type of quality gaming we should expect on our Android devices, for just 99 cents some games can be justified and I’m sure that few people would argue about the value of Adult Swim’s Robot Unicorn Attack. Colosseum, unlike Robot Unicorn Attack is not a port of a flash game yet it still contains the flash game trade mark of great simplicity and lack of depth. 
Colosseum is action game broken down into small arenas where you have to kill creatures until you one drops a key that allows you to escape through the door on the right. If you happened to catch our review last month of Zombieville USA then you might find the gameplay here overly familiar as they’re indeed mostly the same with a few subtle differences, but if you either disliked or liked Zombieville then I expect your views of Colosseum to be very much the same. Just like Zombieville you’ll accumulate money during a level which you can spend between areas to purchase and upgrade your equipment. The range of items here is reasonably vast with nine different weapons as well as armor and shields but as the ranged weapons have infinite ammo you can focus solely on a single weapon until its maxed out and have little to no reason to try the others available, especially with swords. Additional weapons can be added for quick access on your main screen which is very useful when you have to wait for a ranged weapon to charge, a definate step above the clumbsy weapon switching in Zombieville. 
As you progress through the levels you’ll come across new enemies to fight and they don’t all have the same attack pattern of running towards you and striking, some will hold back and throw weapons and will move away from you if approached. Most creatures can be slain in just a single strike or two if you’ve kept your weapons upgraded to a good level. Defeat will only start to become close once the level number start to reach around the mid twenties, but even then the levels aren’t too challenging on a normal difficulty setting as you’ll have likely unlocked all the weapons and upgrades many levels before. 
There’s noting specifically wrong with Colosseum, but this whole style of single row scrolling action games have a real lack of depth. Once you progress to a certain point you’re just going through the motions and fighting the same creatures over and over and the challenge only comes when you become buried in these same creatures. Colosseum doesn’t have the character selection of Zombieville but the more interesting upgrades and simpler interface give Colosseum the edge if your choosing between these two games, but there are better things to be found on the Market.
[rating:3]
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