One of Rares “lesser known” games on the N64 was a title called jet Force Gemini. It was a cool 3rd person shooter where you shot the hell out of  bug like aliens in arcade style action. That was what first came to mind when I saw footage of today’s FREE iPhone game, Star Warfare Alien Invasion. This portable game may not have the same depth of game play as the Rare title from yesteryear, but arcade style shoot em up fun is here to be had. And of course its free, so how can you go wrong here? As usual  it is only free for a limited time, so get downloading. The game has a lot of customization with weapons, armor ( think a cute version of Halo or Metroid here) and power ups, however there is a catch for all you free-be gamers out there. You have to pay real money for most of it. Also, you need to pay for ammo, this time using in game money and not real money, but I dislike this none the less. Fortunately, so far at least, I have never ran out of ammo or in game money, so its all good. I am early in, and things are already starting to get difficult. I am pretty sure that is the developers intention, to persuade you to actually buy some bad ass weapons and armor. But still, you can play the game for free as I have and have a good time. Controls are good except it takes a bit of time to figure out how to move the camera in order to kill baddies behind you.  There is also an online survival mode that I would love to check out with the likes of Glasenator and Bruce at some time.  The game could have been great with some sort of story mode and less emphasis on microtransactions , still, Star Warfare Alien Invasion is pretty good for absolutely free and it is PatMans Pick for today! See you all next time and check out game play screens below!