Vector review

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The arrival of phones and tablets as gaming's new wild frontier has thrown up plenty of debate about the difference between iteration and imitation, but if you want a neat case study of how inspiration can make a game better, take a look at free-running platformer Vector.
From the silhouetted character to the way he leaps and scrambles across rooftops, it's undeniably a game following in the footsteps of Canabalt. Yet for all its similarities, Vector is its own game and builds on Adam Saltsman's template with confidence.
Following a stark yet stylish opening in which we see our nameless hero break away from the corporate, Orwellian drudgery of his futuristic workplace, attracting the attention of fascistic pursuers in the process, we're plunged into a beautifully realised and animated world.
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