If you or your kids love SpongeBob SquarePants, you will likely love this. For two minutes. Before you realise you have better things to do. This app presents you with SpongeBob in an underwater scene, and you can do pretty much whatever you like to him; touch his mouth to make him speak a limited number of phrases, touch his eyes to make him wink, and touch the background to create bubbles that he stares at. If you tilt the iPhone, he slides … [Read more...]
A retro classic re-enters the skies Those of you who remember the Laserdisc title Dragon's Lair — which, incidentally, is also available on the iPhone — will be instantly at home with this retro classic. Placed in the cockpit of a high-tech attack chopper, it's your mission to eliminate a terrorist threat across several different locations. It's just like playing a cartoon from the 1980s, with traditional hand-drawn animation and a cheesy … [Read more...]
Try not to get yourself in a flap, there's a pretty boy Sometimes the simplest concepts are the most instantly appealing, and Bird Strike certainly ranks as pretty straightforward; you merely have to launch a bird up the screen and ensure he gets as high as possible. However, this bird isn't really a natural flier, and the initial fling will only get him so far into the air, which means you will have to utilise the various rockets dotted around … [Read more...]
The path of the assassin stretches to the iPhone There are sceptics out there who claim the iPhone isn't capable of being a handheld gaming device; Assassin's Creed is the perfect evidence against such cynicism. This is easily one of the best 'traditional'games to appear on Apple's gadget. It sees Altair hunting down an artefact known as the chalice'in the hope of bringing The Crusades to an end. Controlling our protagonist with the ever more … [Read more...]
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If it gives you an iPhone, play this EA has brought some great simulations to iPhone — including Sim City and The Sims— but the classic Lemonade Tycoon is a real gem. Styled with retro pixel-art graphics and an easy-to-use push-button interface, the game is all about building the ultimate soft-drink empire. The manager of your own lemonade-vending franchise, you must you buy in the stock and watch the … [Read more...]
Square Enix tower defence? Just a fantasy, surely? Crystal Defenders For iPhone : Taking a popular genre for iPhone games like tower defence and blending it with the art styles, job system and characters of Square Enix RPGs like Final Fantasy seems like a great match, and it generally is. Players of Crystal Defenders must protect a hoard of crystals against waves of varied fantasy enemies, all with different attributes and immunities, by placing … [Read more...]
Holding out for a hero because our upcoming item queue's currently full of swords and shields. Hero Academy For iPhone : Hate would be a harsh word to describe our initial feelings towards the game, it would also be accurate. And that's because Hero Academy initially shoves a difficulty wall in front of you — one that repeatedly punches you in the face while laughing like a loon. The strange thing is, we weren't expecting that either. On the … [Read more...]
Flower into a budding strategic space commander Eufloria HD For iPhone : It's a strange kind of strategy game that insists that you kick back, relax and try not to feel too much pressure, but then there's a lot about Eufloria that's unusual. It's a game where you control plants that grow on asteroids in space and have to defeat opposing plant armies. Your forces are made up of Seedlings, which grow on Dyson Trees, but are also the resource used … [Read more...]
If you're lookin' for triple, boy you've come to the right place with this fantastic puzzle game Triple Town is a matching game where instead of a grid of random items to be swapped around, you're dealt a six-by-six world, where you need to keep adding stuff in order to make a town. It keeps presenting you with random items that you have to place on the map; group three identical things together and they combine to create the next thing up the … [Read more...]
Lose yourself in this well crafted puzzle adventure game The Lost City For iPhone : Fortunately, the city isn't as lost as the title suggests, and you rock up right outside the front gate. From there on in, it's a case of enjoying the picturesque scenery, all the while scanning the screen for objects and clues that might help you solve the game's numerous logic puzzles. While similar, but neither as epic nor challenging as the legendary graphic … [Read more...]
You're dead. Cruelly murdered. Now that is a mystery! Ghost Trick Phantom Detective For iPhone : Wouldn't the ability to possess inanimate objects and would be awesome? Well, there's a catch - you have to be dead first! That's the unfortunate position that the hero of Ghost Trick finds himself in at the start of this quirky puzzler. Having been assassinated, it's up to our hero to travel from object to object, using a sort of soul transference … [Read more...]
One of the App Store's finest racers gets a glorious second outing Reckless Racing 2 For iPhone : We love the original Reckless Racing, especially on the iPad. A year and a half on it remains our favourite top-down racer on the platform. With that in mind, we were thrilled when the sequel arrived, although said thrill lasted approximately ten minutes. What had Polarbit done to its great racing series? The cars now handled like buses, weighed … [Read more...]
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