Dynamite Fishing Zeemote

Ah fishing, a true pastime for those who want to get away from it all and become one with nature. Unless of course the boat is a motorised bathtub and the fishing line is replaced with military-grade dynamite and shotguns.

Taking to the water in your motorised tub of doom, you play a love struck redneck, looking to get some quick cash to impress the girl and, luckily for you, buyers will pay handsome sums for your catch. But it's as much about the carnage as it is the moolah right?

The tutorial is fairly straight forward. Using the Zeemote stick you can steer left and right along the lake and drop dynamite on the unsuspecting fish. If you manage to bag some, they will float to the surface ready for collection. Occasionally, seagulls will fly into view and try to snatch your haul. Pressing the B trigger equips your shotgun and if your aim is good enough you can take them down before they make off with any of your fish.

This keeps you on your toes as you have to keep your eye on so many things at once. Although aiming with your shotgun is a case of lining up a scrolling cross hair with your target, which sounds easy in practice, but can prove very difficult on later levels.

Different fish give you better cash prizes after each stage. There are also treasure chests on the lake-bed that reveal bonus cash if you manage to blow them up in time. After each stage, your earnings can be used to buy extra dynamite, remote bombs, level up your crude vessel or buy a new one.

There are tons of things to do in this game and it's impressive that so much is crammed into a mobile game. It's value for money is definitely not a question for debate, but there are some control issues that might annoy some players.

For starters, the controls don't feel entirely responsive at times, which is distracting considering how quickly the pace of the game ramps up after each stage. Shotgun aiming was always going to be a tricky thing to implement on a mobile game and it works here, just perhaps a little too slowly.

However, the visuals are crisp and you should have no trouble seeing what you are doing on what is a relatively small screen. The bright cartoon-style visuals make what is already a wacky premise, all the more fun.

Dynamite Fishing is the kind of game you might encounter on a flash gaming site and play on your web browser for a silly amount of time, despite its lack of depth when compared to full-scale console releases. But this is seriously addictive gaming, which will give you more than enough fun for the reasonable asking price. The only thing left to consider is what the animal rights folk would make of all this mayhem.