Guns of Boom

Guns of Boom is an online team-based multiplayer first-person shooter. In Guns of Boom, players are ranked by their level. The highest level is 50 with players leveling up by gaining more experience points through participating in battles. Trophies are won but lost only when the battle is left in between the battle time. The players are divided into 2 teams, each containing 4 players. The gameplay consists of 5 minutes per game, with the team finishing with the highest points adjudged the winners. They can also have other player's weapons once they are killed by the player. Every two weeks, the ratings in all the Platinum league are reset to 30,000 rating points. The players receive the rewards appropriate to their position in the ratings, Top-500 goes to the Hall of Fame.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} This is called a leaderboard .

In three weeks starting in May 2017, the game was downloaded 5 million times and earned US$1 million in revenue.{{cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/09/game-insights-guns-of-boom-hits-5-million-downloads-and-1-million-in-revenue/ |title=Game Insight's Gods of Boom hits 5 million downloads and $1 million in revenue |website=venturebeat.com |date=2017-06-09 |access-date=2017-08-22 |archive-date=23 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823121228/https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/09/game-insights-guns-of-boom-hits-5-million-downloads-and-1-million-in-revenue/ |url-status=live }} Campbell Bird of [http://www.148apps.com 148apps] gave Guns of Boom 4/5, describing it as a multiplayer shooter that falls just short of being amazing, thanks to some weird f2p design. He also criticizes how the game deals with grenades and health kits that are disposable resources, and can conceivably run out and tip the scales of the fight in favor of whoever is fine with expending their resources to survive more.{{Cite news|url=http://www.148apps.com/reviews/guns-of-boom-review/|title=Gods of Boom review|last=Bird|first=Campbell|date=25 May 2017|work=148apps|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-date=28 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728200623/http://www.148apps.com/reviews/guns-of-boom-review/|url-status=live}} Harry Slater of AppSpy describes the game as ‘a shooter that works on touchscreen’, ‘a team-based FPS in the vein of Team Fortress 2’ and ‘not the freshest idea, but it's wonderfully put together’.{{Cite news|url=http://www.148apps.com/news/guns-of-boom-now-on-ios/|title=Gods of Boom brings Overwatch-style gunplay to iOS|last=Famularo|first=Jessica|date=17 May 2017|work=148apps|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-date=28 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728200426/http://www.148apps.com/news/guns-of-boom-now-on-ios/|url-status=live}} In another Guns of Boom review by Slater, for Pocket Gamer this time, it is stated that Guns of Boom has one of the worst names he has ever had the misfortune to read during his time writing about mobile games. He also says that Guns of Boom is ‘an essential mobile multiplayer experience’, ‘with gorgeous cartoon graphics that fizzes and pops in some of the best ways possible’.{{Cite news|url=http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Guns+of+Boom/review.asp?c=74024|title=Gods of Boom review - The first essential mobile shooter?|last=Slater|first=Harry|work=Pocket Gamer|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-date=28 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728160921/http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Guns+of+Boom/review.asp?c=74024|url-status=live}} John Hoff of Android Community describes Guns of Boom as a multiplayer online FPS that is actually fun and engaging but has an awful name.{{Cite news|url=https://androidcommunity.com/guns-of-boom-is-a-first-person-shooter-with-mobile-in-mind-20170519/|title=Gods of Boom is a first person shooter with mobile in mind|last=Hoff|first=John|date=19 May 2017|work=Android Community|access-date=28 July 2017|archive-date=28 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728160506/https://androidcommunity.com/guns-of-boom-is-a-first-person-shooter-with-mobile-in-mind-20170519/|url-status=live}}

There have been many cheaters in the game since its release in 2017. One of the most notorious providers was named "AutoSkillz". As these kinds of applications were ruining the online experience of many players and causing Game Insight to lose revenue, Game Insight decided to take legal action.{{Cite news|url=https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/09/05/company-behind-online-shooter-game-guns-of-boom-sues-cheat-coders/?slreturn=20220721024316|title=Company Behind Online Shooter Game 'Guns of Boom' Sues Cheat Coders|last=Lancaster|first=Alaina|date=5 September 2019|work=law.com|access-date=21 August 2022|archive-date=21 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821070244/https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/09/05/company-behind-online-shooter-game-guns-of-boom-sues-cheat-coders/?slreturn=20220721024316|url-status=live}} Ultimately, AutoSkillz came to an agreement with Game Insight, where they would drop the charges if AutoSkillz stopped providing cheats for their game. In addition to this, there have been many other instances similar to this where action had to be taken, such as on a forum named "Polarmods", where cheating content based around the game had to be taken down because it violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Category:2017 video games

Category:Video games developed in Russia

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Category:Android (operating system) games

Category:First-person shooters

Category:Multiplayer video games

Category:Game Insight games