Babel Rising, from Bulky Pix and White Birds Productions, takes a page from the Bible, almost literally, as you take control of the weather and attempt to stop the heathens from building a tower that will reach to heaven. The weapons at your almighty fingertips are simply crushing puny humans with a tap, striking them down with a bolt of heavenly lightning, immolation by fire storm, washing them away with a tsunami, blow them away with the divine winds, or crush them all with a mighty earthquake.

The heretics are many and so they flood to the Tower of Babel to assist with its creation. Your task as the almighty is to stop them and of course, you get points for doing it! But sooner or later, they will get that tower built. Why you ask when we are the almighty?

Each power has a recharge time which means you have to use them sparingly and as best as you can. The more powerful the power, the longer the recharge. The game becomes frantic tapping and sliding fairly quickly and I have had games lasting around 10-15 minutes so it’s not very time consuming to play. A couple a day and your finger might be sore with tap-itis.

The game does have some quirks, like the fact that the earthquake does not damage the tower, bizarre I know. The lightning bolt is not very accurate, nor is it very powerful as often the heretics will survive being struck full on by it.  In fact, none of the powers will damage the tower, which I personally believe is a minor flaw in the game and would make it far more interesting.

The graphics are pretty cool and the entire game is one cohesive presentation. The sounds are great and there’s nothing more satisfying than the heretics screams reaching my ears while I crush their brethren.

Overall the gameplay is fairly one-dimensional and I think the powers should affect the tower. But that’s not enough to spoil the fun of it and after only a couple matches I managed to break the top 50 on the Openfeint leaderboards (#39 right now).

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