UberStrike review

The gaming industry is full of First Person Shooters, and the truth is that newcomers to this genre need to bring something special in order to grab your precious hours of gameplay.

Trying to differentiate itself from the crowd, UberStrike omits the single player campaign and focuses entirely on an immersive multiplayer experience.

Developed by Cmune, UberStrike is the company's second attempt to deliver an FPS game where users can play through their Facebook, MySpace, Apple Dashboard, Cmune's portal and HD client download accounts.  Their first was "Paradise Paintball", a “Social Shooter” that managed to record  over 1 million Facebook installs and 300,000 monthly active users.  UberStrike has already done better in that area and it's estimated that it has achieved 3 million installs, while 817.000 users every month enter it in order to  kill or splat opponents.

UberStrike has all the features of a typical First Person Shooter: guns, sound effects and well designed maps. Its multiplayer is very similar to games like Team Fortress 2, Quake Live or Genesis AD. The game runs on a point system, when the opponents points reach 0 the game is over and the opposing team wins. With UberStrike, users have access to a console quality game in their browser without a large download, anywhere in the world.