Any fan of turn based aim-and-fire games like scorched earth, worms, etc… will probably find this game as fun as I did.

Bow Man 2 is pretty much the exact same archer vs archer game we saw in Bow Man 1, but with a few new game modes added to expand the overall enjoyability a bit more. Now you can shoot target practice, or hunt birds…. just don’t play with Dick Cheney.

In all of the game modes, you click and drag to draw a line and release to fire an arrow. The line has x/y numbers on each end that are very helpful in adjusting your shots and can be the key to victory.

In the main game, you goal is to bleed your opponent to death before he can do the same to you. The bodies seemed to have location sensitivity, so if you hit a leg 4 times, the player would still keep fighting back, but a few good chest shots would take him down.

The art isn’t very good, just black buffed out stick figures and line art for mostly everything else. The birds aren’t too terribly bad, but they aren’t very impressive either.

The sound is very minimal as well. I counted a total of 4 sound effects in the whole game.

Even with poor art and sound, this game stands tall providing just as much minute wasting value as a magnifying glass and an ant farm on a bright sunny day and shows that, when it comes to games, the gameplay is all that matters.

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