Dial the clocks back to early December of 2015 and developer Art in Games released AirAttack 2 [$0.99], a sequel to their incredibly well-recieved 2010 vertical shoot 'em up. There was little warning of AirAttack 2's arrival, and as such it took both our community and our staff by storm as it proved to be one of the most visually impressive and refreshing shooters available on mobile. We awarded it 5 stars in our review as well as Game of the Week honors. And, despite releasing so close to the end of the year, AirAttack 2 made enough of an impression on us that we included it in our Best Games of 2015 as well. In short, AirAttack 2 is really, really good!
Anyway, it's been more than a year since that initial release, and as great as AirAttack 2 was it did have some minor issues that needed to be addressed. Art in Games was quite active in our forums following the game's release, and laid out some plans they had for a big update to the game. That was all the way in March of last year though, and with radio silence from Art in Games since last June it started to feel like the update would never come at all. Well, much like its initial release today that long-awaited update arrived out of nowhere, and adds in some very nifty new features. One of those is support for horizontal orientation in addition to portrait, and you can see the lovely widescreen-ness of it all in this new trailer.
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