


Workers and soldiers can (and will) be killed frequently with little penalty, but the player controlling the Queen has to be more careful.

It’s important to keep an eye not only on your own team’s progress, but how far the other team has gotten in achieving their goals. Alternatively, riding a slow-moving snail from the center of the map to your side of the screen will result in a Snail victory. Economic victories can be won by retrieving berries from around the map and bringing them back to the base. A Military victory involves killing the other team’s Queen three times in a match. Players can choose just one of these goals to work towards, or can devote different players to attempting all three simultaneously. Games are played between two squads of four players on either a blue team or a gold team, and the goal is to win a best-of-five tournament by achieving one of three possible victory conditions: Military, Economic, and Snail. Both versions are played on a single screen, and it usually takes longer to describe how to play than it does to just jump into a match and figure it out for yourself. Both the original release and Black share similar rules, with only a few changes made for the home game. Still, with fun mechanics, great songs, and some funny visuals you just know singer Freddie Mercury would've loved, Queen Rock Tour is a stone cold crazy good time.Killer Queen is one of those easy-to-learn, difficult-to-master titles which thrived in the early days of the arcade. There's more songs on the band's two Greatest Hits collections. It's also annoying that the free version only has 2 songs, and the full game - which, admittedly, only costs $2.99 - only adds 17 more. Thankfully, you can avoid this problem by resting your device on your lap and tapping it like guitarist Brian May tapping the fretboard. But it hits a sour note if you play on a regular sized tablet and have small hands, which makes it hard to hit the inside lanes if you're holding your tablet by the edges. Especially since this takes advantage of your device's touch screen by having you swipe left or right, sometimes while holding down a button. In theory, this sounds like a rockin' good time. and they looked like adorable Playmobil figures. Or, to put it another way, it's Guitar Hero and Rock Band, but on your phone or tablet. In Queen Rock Tour, you have to tap or hold the screen in time with the circular notes that are moving down the screen in time with the music. While it may take some adjusting in your play style to really appreciate, this music game rocks as hard as the band that inspired it.
