Blast Off may be a mini, but it packs a major punch. Released on November 24th by Halfbrick Studios, Blast Off is a game with a simple concept but with ad added twist, gravity. In the game, your objective is to maneuver your spaceship to rescue little astronauts floating around in space, and then travel to an exit. You launch your ship into space from a rotatable planet Earth. The longer you hold down X before you launch, the more thrust your launch will have. You then must retrieve a certain number of astronauts to open the exit portal. The challenge come in with the gravity factor. The larger the planet, the more gravitational pull it has. So, if you’re trying to grab two astronauts around a giant planet, chances are you’re gonna get sucked into it in the process. Thankfully, if you screw up mid-flight, you can simply hit L to reset the level, which you will find yourself doing very often in the later levels.
The game contains four difficulties, with an average of twelve levels per difficulty. Which brings me to another point, This game is HARD. You’ll most definitely be throwing your PSP against the wall in rage once you get into the Hard and Insane difficulties. Some of the levels are a cakewalk, though. 
If you’re determined, you could probably complete the game in about an hour. But, you can always go back to rescue every single astronaut in a level to get a gold medal. At $2.99, Blast Off is a bargain for the amount of content it has. Plus, it works great on the PS3. If you have a few dollars laying around in your wallet wondering what to buy, I have to say that Blast Off is a must buy.
