Back in November of last year, we brought you news of Cover Fire (Free), a particularly interesting on rails shooter that incorporated 3D Touch controls to distinguish it from the abundance of similar titles on the App Store. While the 3D Touch feature, which debuted on iOS with 2015’s iPhone 6S, was particularly convenient productivity-wise as it let you use various shortcuts for many of the App Store’s staple apps, it hasn’t had as big an impact on mobile gaming as it perhaps should have. With the capacity for variable inputs based on how hard you touch the iPhone’s touch screen, there is a lot of potential in 3D Touch as a future pillar of iOS applications. Cover Fire’s use of gently tapping to aim and pressing hard to shoot is therefore extremely refreshing to see, and for this reason alone is worth trying out now it has today finally launched worldwide on the App Store for free.

While the 3D Touch mechanic is the main selling point of Cover Fire, the developers have attempted to ensure that there is a substantial game beneath this revolutionary new input method. The graphical style that Cover Fire has adopted is beautiful and detailed, and destructible environments should create more immersion within the title’s on-rails basis. You also have the ability to cycle through the different characters within your mercenary unit and see the conflict from numerous different perspectives, and can equip numerous different weapons and guns that can dramatically vary the approach taken within Cover Fire. Best of all, the promise of an inflatable dinosaur character that can be unlocked sounds truly life-changing, and if Cover Fire can stay varied and diverse within its free-to-play framework, there is a lot of potential for the game to redefine the on-rails shooter genre on the App Store. Download Cover Fire on the App Store for free now, and head down to our forum thread for more impressions and views on this intriguing shooter title.