Project NeXt - Mobile Gaming

The Large Hadron Collider crash has burnt our world drown in a doomsday fire, and a new era has begun. Civilizations have fallen, cities lie in ruins, people transform into animals and animals become humans. "M.U.M.U.: Judgment Day" is a story of a man who tries to escape the mortal trap set by semi-intelligent "mutant dogs", headed by his ex-beloved pet that turned into a cunning monster. Caught unaware in his boat, in the middle of a river by a huge pack of blood-thirsty creatures, he has no weapon to defend himself and almost no chance to survive. The only thing he can do is to smash the heads of these monsters with his oar for as long as possible.

This is actually a classic game, in which you smash the heads of "water moles". You are given a storyline to finish the task: The monsters will kill you if you cannot kill them first with your oar before they come too close. You will play as both an "old man" or a "mutant dog" in 4 different modes. In the modes of "The Dramatic Story", "Simply Drown" and "Cynically Drown", you play as the old man. While in the last mode "MUMU's Vengeance", you must avoid being smashed as a mutant. All game modes, except the story mode, can be played when a certain number of levels are finished in story mode, first. In story mode, there are 3 different difficulties from "Hungover", "Typical" to "Super". The story goes by day and hours. You can always see the hand-sketched cartoon pictures as the traditional "Loading" image; These cut-scenes can be viewed in "Gallery", as well. The dogs do not bite in the "Cynically Down" mode, and you must try your best to drown as many of them as possible in the "Simply Drown" mode. After each level, you will be asked to input your name and upload your high score to the world-wide leaderboard. Thus, you can compete to be the "Number-1 Player in the World".

During the game, there are many different kinds of mutant dogs: "Kamikaze Guy", "Crocodile", etc. They can be found in "Bestiary". Items will float on the sea surface and you should pick good ones to improve your health or make bonuses. There are also some items that may do harm to you or even cause your death.

The overall style of the game is hand-sketched. In the menu, you can also see the animations. For example, the chase scene between the old man and the mutant, the smoking mutant, etc.

There are 4 areas in the screen where dogs will come close to you. They correspond with the keys on your phone as "2", "4", "6" and "8". When you see the monsters coming, just press the "5" key to lift the oar and smash their heads. Wine can be picked up by pressing "5", as well. In the "MUMU's Vengeance" mode, you will see a red fan-shaped area, you must press the key that matches the gap, which means the old man failed to smash you.

In the story mode, where you may have failed a level, you have the chance to replay it without playing all the previous levels. But the number of attempts is 3; after that, you must restart the story mode from the very beginning.

I've been playing the game since last year, while it was still in development. At that time, I was told that the game would be released only in Russian language. I was so sad about that. But luckily we can have a chance to play the English version now. The hand-sketched style has really given a deep impression to me, and I recommend the game to you without any question.

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