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Archive of "IPhone" Category
Outbreak Studios Develops Sequel to Bestselling iPhone Game
Peter Björklund, the CEO of Outbreak Studios announced that they have signed up with 1337 Game Design to develop the second episode of the game Dark Nebula for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The first episode of Dark Nebula was released on Apple’s App Store and has already become a bestseller in many countries. Some reviewers have even named it the best game released for the platform to date.
Dark Nebula: Episode 1 Review
Brought to you by 1337 Game Design, the effort behind Dark Nebula is spearheaded by the lead designer of Battlefield 2, which almost makes the level of polish to the environments, controls and interface unsurprising – almost. Dark Nebula is a great looking game, and I love and appreciate the amount of effort that has clearly gone into the title. At about an hour’s worth of game time it’s a notably brief offering, but not without replay value. Frankly, I’m not sure what people’s demands are for a .99 title, perhaps we’re all a bit spoiled by the AppStore budget pricing. (more…)
Weekly Video Review Wrap-Up Episode 8
This week I make up for lost time with coverage of two GTA games, Tekken 6, DJ Hero, Borderlands and a ton of other games as fall rush continues to dominate.
Fare City: First Shift Review
Fare City: First Shift is a line drawing game for your iPhone at the low, low price of .99 making it unique, well, not at all. That’s not to say Fare City doesn’t have some great things going for it, it’s just that at this point in the genre, it’s going to need to be dancing elephants. It’s a good product, for which I offer my line-drawing stamp of approval. Whether this is the line drawer for you will be a matter of taste, and whether you’ve already spent .99 ten times over on the other games of its ilk. (more…)
ZTGD Weekly Review Wrap-Up Episode 7
This week I break down the latest reviews on ZTGD including Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, A Witch’s Tale and so, so much more.
Swingaling Review
Swingaling, an elusive furball with feline traits and a very stretchy arm, takes center stage in this title from Pocket Monkey Games. Players must guide the swingaling as far through the forest as possible by latching onto branches and avoiding foes. The Swingaling is a little creepy in its bright-eyed naivete, leaping through the canopy like an agile lemming. That’s a-ok, so long as he haplessly flings himself onward in my quest for high scores. That’s really the only objective here, attaining brag-worthy distance and posting it to Open Feint. (more…)
ZTGD Weekly Review Wrap-Up Episode 6
The sixth episode of the Wrap-Up covers a handful of reviews including Brutal Legend, NBA Live 10, Osmos and a host of others.
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Let’s TAP: Tap Runner Review
Prope’s Wii collection of games are in your iPhone! The Let’s Tap series, famed for its vibration-based controls, now have you putting your iPhone on a tissue box so you can tap-tap-tap away. Lacking a tissue box on your morning commute, you can select the Touch mode that allows tapping on the screen or the Free mode that lets you tap any part of the phone. Having tried out all three methods, I’ll save you some time: you will want to keep a tissue box handy. With the Let’s Tap series broken into five small games for the Apple devices, we will serve up our analyses here in bite-sized reviews for each. (more…)
Let’s TAP: Gem Game Review
Gem Game is deceptively titled, as so far as I can tell it is not a game. At least, not a fun one. Better described as some kind of visualizer, you tap to make orbs bounce and get them to land in cylinders. Filling the onscreen cylinders may result in a gem orb and occasionally turns all the onscreen orbs into the same color. You get a ruby ball for three balls of the same color, a sapphire ball for three ruby ones, and finally a Rainbow ball for Sapphire. The “game” is won when all the orbs are Rainbow orbs. I would shoot my hands off long before that ever happens. I got tired of tapping trying this one out and had more fun holding my phone and jerking it upward, repeatedly. (more…)
Let’s TAP: Silent Blocks Review
Silent Blocks is, simply, Jenga. Feature two modes, the gist is the same in each: gently tap to remove blocks from a teetering tower. Removing blocks to combine blocks of like color cause them to fuse into jewel blocks. In Binary mode you have 100 moves to fuse as many blocks as you can, hopefully not bringing the tower down in the meantime. Alchemist mode is geared toward the puzzle-minded, with a handful of difficulties tasking you with creating specific jewel blocks in a limited number of moves. (more…)
Let’s TAP: Rhythm Tap Review
Rhythm Tap offers up a selection of brief musical styling for you to tap your way through. By tapping in time to the music you hit music markers from the right side of the screen. Combos are triggered by successive correct taps, and net you higher scores. Otherwise, your score is derived from the number of taps out of a total possible you managed to land. At the completion of each song you are awarded a rank, and your top five scores are recorded. If you fall in love with any of the jams, there is also a little “Buy Truck” button in the lower left. Buy track perhaps? (more…)
Let’s TAP: Bubble Voyager Review
Bubble Voyager offers up some survival style fun. Set over graph paper schematics and some sort of aquarium death trap, you guide the little voyager through hazardous obstacles, trying to best your high score. Tapping propels the Voyager upwards as he moves ceaselessly forward. Points are awarded for things like distance travelled, collecting stars and successfully landing to restore your energy. To achieve a perfect landing you have you control your descent by tapping gently. Successive perfect landings net you more and more points each time, in addition to refilling you energy meter – essentially your health. Run out of energy by traveling too far without refueling or from colliding with enemies and it’s game over. At the end of the game your high score can be featured in worldwide rankings, should you choose. (more…)
ZTGD Weekly Review Wrap-Up Episode 5
The fifth episode of the Wrap-Up covers a handful of reviews including Dead Space Extraction, Demon’s Souls, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and a host of others.
ZTGD Weekly Review Wrap-up Episode 4
The latest weekly review wrap-up is here. Games include: HYBRID: Eternal Whisper, MySims Agents, Toy Story Mania, Gran Turismo, Zombie Apocalypse, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, NHL 2K10 and Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of the Leviathan. (more…)
HYBRID: Eternal Whisper Review
Gamevil, the same guys that brought Zenonia to the West, deliver HYBRID: Eternal Whisper to your iPhone and iPod touch, a game that raises the eternal question: how J do you like your RPG? You play as Grey, thus named for his hair and eyes, a boy haunted by the suspicion that he, like some monstrous creatures, is a Hybrid. Set in the world of Platina, a place that seems doomed to be overrun by unstoppable Hybrids, everyone throws up their hands in despair and sits back to wait for the prophesied Guardian that will slay the Dark Spirits. Grey, however, goes ahead and tries to do battle himself taking him on an adventure that spans parallel worlds. (more…)
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