Games

World of Tunes

Posted September 15, 2009 - 4:45pm by Marc Peter
WOT1Developer: Com2Us
Category: Games
Version: 1.2.0
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Size: 47.9 Mb
Price: $2.99
Rating: 9/10

Birdhouse

Com2Us has become synonymous with quality gaming applications. They have a really diverse offering of games that cover a a wide selection of genres. Stunning graphics, slick UI's, original play and great sounds are standard with Com2Us games and World of Tunes is a perfect example. This is their offering in the Tap to Music genre.

Movie Challenge

Posted September 14, 2009 - 7:44pm by Marc Peter
MC1Developer: Redwind Software
Category: Games
Version: 3.1
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Size: 8.3 MB
Price: $1.99
Rating: 10/10

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Some iPhone apps are made specifically for a younger demographic. Farting, blasting, hacking and smashing are all things that the youth enjoy, and so do mature iPhone users to some extent, but eventually it gets old and you feel pretty stupid sitting in the airport surrounded by people reading novels and papers and working on laptops while you adjust the hang time and pitch of a cow fart. Movie Challenge is anything but immature.

Liberty Boom

Posted September 9, 2009 - 3:10pm by Marc Peter
LB1Developer: magnate Interactive
Category: Games
Version: 1.0.1
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Size: 8.2 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating: 8/10

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iPhone user by choice, American by the grace of god.....or maybe the other way 'round? It's debatable. There are a lot of games in the App Store that appeal to the international iPhone user masses; space games, shoot 'em ups (although that's an American thing-think Charlie Heston) and slash and hacks. Liberty Boom is all about being proud to be an an American, the 4th of July, fireworks, oohs and ahhs and a little exploding airliner action thrown in for good measure.

Samurai: Way of the Warrior

Posted September 8, 2009 - 9:35pm by Craig Motlong
Samurai1Developer: Mad Finger Games
Category: Games
Version: 1.0
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Size: 44.6 MB
Price: $2.99
Rating 8/10

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Games on the iPhone are rapidly falling into a pattern of me-tooism. Once you have a hit on the platform, a million developers surge toward the chum in the water, producing a slew of nearly identical apps that blur the distinction that made the original so good. The ones that maintain their individuality are either too arty, like Zen Bound, or too silly, like Pocket God, to make a clone worthwhile. For example, you instinctively know how to operate every third-person action game; the controller is on the lower left, fire on the lower right...

Enigmo 2

Posted September 8, 2009 - 9:26pm by Craig Motlong
Enigmo1Developer: Pangea Software, Inc.
Category: Games
Version: 1.0
Release Date: Sep 01, 2009
Size: 9.3 MB
Price: $3.99
Rating 6/10

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Look, I loved the original Enigmo. In an age that now seems like the wild west on the iPhone/iPod Touch platform, Enigmo was one of the few games that was worth the money, addictive, and fun. It was the last app I deleted to make room. Even when I found myself not playing it anymore, I liked the idea of playing it.

So when Enigmo 2 was announced, I leapt on it like mustard at a hot-dog eating contest. I could not wait to see what they'd done with Enigmo. I was expecting a "Rolando 2" kind of upgrade, one that maintains the principles of the original but leans on the walls a little to make it bigger, better, and more fun. Turns out I was half-right.

Gudeballs

Posted September 2, 2009 - 9:50pm by Marc Peter
Gudeballs1Developer: Rogerio Penchal
Category: Games
Version: 1.0.1
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Size: 3.7 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating: 10/10

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I'm feeling really lucky this week. After not finding any really addicting new games for a long spell, I now have three to choose from. Each one has the ability to eat up hours of my day at a time- they are commute slayers, boredom killers, annoying life in the background distractors. There is a hierarchy to these new games, and Gudeballs rules the triumvirate. I can play this game and literally forget what day it is.

Fish Food Frenzy

Posted September 1, 2009 - 5:09pm by Marc Peter
fishFood1Developer: Sputnik Games
Category: Games
Version: 1.0.0
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Size: 7.6 MB
Price: $1.99
Rating: 10/10

Birdhouse

It seems like there's been a little bit of a decrease in the numbers of accelerometer dependent games released recently. I was a huge fan of the use of the accelerometer and any games that depended upon it as their main source of movement, there are some obvious classics. My favorite games recently have been all finger swipe and tap dependent. I was beginning to think that the accelerometer games were becoming uncool or played out to developers. Fish Food Frenzy just popped onto my phone and I'm psyched to be tilting and turning desperately again.

9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2009

Posted September 1, 2009 - 12:53pm by Marc Peter
9Innings1Developer: Com2Us Corp.
Category: Games
Version: 1.0.5
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Size: 21.0 MB
Price: $2.99
Rating 9/10

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I'm a baseball fanatic. I live in a city that's wild for it's baseball team. I played little league baseball (poorly) from t-ball to the majors, I have a head way too full of stats, I go to minor league games when our guys are rehabbing, I watch every game at exactly 7:05 pm, I talk baseball to anyone who will listen and I waste at least a few thousand dollars every summer to see my beloved Red Sox play at Fenway Park.

Obviously I've been through a few iPhone baseball games. 9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2009 from Com2Us is a very cool full-on baseball app. It offers all of the standard features you'd want to see in a complete team vs. team game, plus some surprisingly creative original ones too.

Deep Green Chess

Posted August 30, 2009 - 5:42pm by Marc Peter
Deep Green1Developer: Cocoa Stuff
Category: Games
Version: 1.1
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Size: 4.3 MB
Price: $7.99
Rating 10/10

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Today is the day of grown-ups app reviews, and Deep Green fits well in the category. Leave it to chess geeks to create great chess apps, with as many bells and whistles available as there are moves and strategies in the game itself. Deep Green offers the perfect balance of good clean chess playability and necessary features as well as the addition of some really cool geeky stuff.

iHitori

Posted August 30, 2009 - 4:00pm by Marc Peter
iHitori1Developer: Elevata Inc.
Category: Games
Version: 1.0.2
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Size: 0.6 MB
Price: $1.99
Rating 9/10

Birdhouse

There is something positive about the iPhone that is becoming more and more apparent: this is a gaming platform that caters to adults and grown up tastes. I don't know many adults who own their own DS, Paystation or Wii. However, $300.00 cell phones definitely inhabit the realm of the grown up toy, and because of that the games available go way beyond slash and hack, blast and bleed, and Bratz makeovers. iHitori is a giant step away from immature.