At first, the screenshots of I, Gladiator make it look like the latest in a long line of Infinity Blade clones. But wait, dear reader: this is no tired, overproduced button-masher. This is a new, exciting, fresh overproduced button masher, which attempts to adapt the feel and controls of a big-time console beat-em-up like Devil May Cry for mobile devices. What does that mean? It means you can actually walk around and pick which bad guy you're about to dismember.

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The control scheme is a bit of a hybrid: you use the standard "move on left, look on right" controls to guide your burly hunk of man-meat around the arena until you find an opponent. Once you lock on, you go into the familiar tap-and-swipe fighter mode with various combos and special moves available. It's an elegant system, and by "elegant," I mean you can chop those dudes up real good. The graphics are solid and the subject matter is gory - if Google was stupid enough to let the ESRB anywhere near the Play Store, I, Gladiator would stroll into the "M" section without a second glance.

I, Gladiator has been out on iOS for the better part of a year, where it has racked up millions of downloads (and is unaccountably two dollars cheaper than the Android version). Unfortunately a $5 price tag won't shield you from copious amounts of in-app purchases. We are not entertained.

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