Taking on the role of Vampire-slayer Kale (think a better looking and male Buffy), you're charged with tracking through eleven 2D levels filled with everything from zombies to werewolves, fighting them off with a combination of weaponry and magic, in a mission to seek revenge on the vampires who have turned Kale's life upside down. This is action gaming at its most effective, and while it's fair to say that Soul of Darkness has more than a little hint of some of the genre's classics of old, it presents them in a way that will delight anyone looking for a serious title to get their teeth into on their phone. Gameloft's Soul of Darkness isn't scary in the slightest, but it does have a very classy take on the dark arts, creating a world of vampires, coloured orbs, magic and one-eyed monsters who, well, consist of little more than one big bulging eye. If you want to embrace the darker side of life on the mobile, you have to be very clever about how you do it. How do you go about scaring people using a screen no bigger than a teabag? I'd challenge any of Hollywood's great directors to bring genuine fear to the mobile phones have a sense of disconnection that just doesn't manifest itself in your average cinema, where the screen is usually the size of a small European country.
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