Let’s get something straight here from the start. There’s a plot/story behind Gunshine but it’s a thinly veiled cover for the game itself. Gunshine is violent but skips past being super gory. Supercell weren’t interested in creating an engaging story – they wanted eyeballs on screen and the way to do that is create an action filled MMO world

The game is set in the future in a time when guns are available from vending machines in the street but all of this is done for marketing testing by a sinister corporation known as Labycore. The “Guns For Everyone” program has caused the massive violence that you get to see while playing Gunshine. And Labycore constructed Dawnbreak city, where the game takes place, as part of this grand experiment of theirs.

In the game you complete missions to earn money and experience points. You can then trade the money for newer, better and basically more awesome weapons. You can also, however, purchase diamonds with real money to help speed up your progress in the game in terms of both weapons and your skill set. This will give some people the unfair edge of being able to creator a top shelf character very quickly. And this is tempting because there are some really cool weapons to choose from in this game.

Speaking of characters there are 3 basic classes to choose from – Tank, Damage Dealer and Healer – each with their own obvious set of skills. And as usual your character can be fully customized so that they meet your own particular flavour for the type of character you want to play.

The game itself is free to play and there’s no download required which is quickly becoming the norm for this kind of in-browser MMO game although some companies don’t seem to be getting that. There are hundreds of quests to complete so you’re looking at a game with years of potential play in it – all depending on how involved you get.

A quick parental warning here though folks – the game has some pretty coarse language in it so you might want to check this before letting your kids get stuck into it.

There are of course bosses that you need to defeat and this is where the multiplayer aspect of the game really comes into play – you’re going to need multiple players to take some of these characters down.

Gunshine focuses on action and keeping you busy blowing other players to pieces – it does this pretty well. We think you’ll enjoy it.