Posts Tagged ‘Touch’
Cut The Rope: Experiments Review
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsApp store apps are always hard to place a price on. In most other marketplaces, games that retail for the same price would be expected to have a similar amount of content, or provide the same level of value. In the app store, prices are so ridiculously low that these expectations are frequently shown to be impossible to meet. Cut the Rope: Experiments (69p/$0.99) by ZeptoLab demonstrates this situation perfectly.
Groove Coaster Review
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsGroove Coaster by Taito (£1.99/$2.99, currently on sale for £0.69/$0.99) is possibly my favourite music game on the app store. It takes the expected devices of the music genre, and makes them fun again. Really, stupidly fun. As music plays, you tap the screen to hit notes that correspond to the song, earning you ‘groove’. You need a certain amount of groove to complete each level. The twist is, you’re
Goop Review
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsGoop (69p/$0.99) by Fine and Dandy Games is a keeper, despite not being particularly addicting, full of content or containing birds. Such absences suggest that the game should bomb in the app store – but that’s forgetting what it does have: cute jumpsy creatures, one-touch controls, beautiful graphics and a clever, easily accessible game mechanic. So if there’s any justice in the world, the app should do fairly well for
SPY Mouse Gameplay Trailer and Information
By Oliver Stockley | MiscellaneousFiremint, the geniuses behind Flight Control and Real Racing, have just posted the first gameplay trailer for their upcoming game, SPY Mouse. They’ve also revealed some top-secret information about the game: “Master 72 challenging levels and venture through 6 worlds of tasty adventure Confound and confuse devious henchcats and their dangerous contraptions Snack on chillies for timely speed boosts, thwart hazards with mechanical mice and launch SPY mouse into
Wisp: Eira’s Tale Review
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsWisp: Eira’s Tale (£1.99/$2.99) by Triolith Entertainment is enchanting, and not in the metaphorical sense: I think the game actually wields some sort of magical power. You see, as a reviewer I play games all the time. If I’m watching the television and some adverts come on, I’ll immediately whip out Doodle Jump or Pix’n Love Rush. If I’m waiting for a train, I’ll either be reading a book or
Hungribles Review
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsHungribles (£1.49/$1.99) by Futuremark Games is another take on the tried and tested slingshot mechanic. Angry birds did it well and Amazing Breaker did it brilliantly, but how does Hungribles fare? In the game, you need to send tasty orbs in the direction of Hungribles – and when they have as cute a name as that, why wouldn’t you? Their appetite is so large that it has an orbit. When
Bean’s Quest Review
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsBean’s Quest (£1.99/$2.99) by Kumobius sucked me in at the title screen. Garish green clashing with blue and orange, the title itself placed above a tacky orange star. On the left of the screen, a sombrero-wearing jumping bean called Emilio grinned at me toothlessly. It all felt so cheap, but intentionally so, and I loved it. Then I started playing the first level, and I began to love the game
Fortnightly Review Fix: Mighty Fin, Space is Key, The Fish Dies in the End and Inferno
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsAs well as working hard to produce daily reviews for AltiApp, I’ve recently begun contributing to The Smartphone App Review. I don’t want the reviews that I’ve written for other sites to go unseen by readers of AltiApp, so every fortnight I’ll post extracts of, and links to, any articles that I post elsewhere on the web. Mighty Fin Review: “Mighty Fin by Launching Pad Games is all about the
Silent Ops Review
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsSilent Ops (£4.99/$6.99) by Gameloft is something of a contradiction: a game about slick gun-toting agents that’s clunky and rough around the edges. Not visually, of course – the game looks and sounds mostly stunning. No, the problems that riddle the game aren’t as simple as that. You play the part of 3 different agents from a secret organization as they fight against an organisation that is doing evil things
Connectrode Review
By Oliver Stockley | ReviewsConnectrode (69p/99 cents) by Deep Plaid is a refreshingly original puzzle game that relaxes as much as it frustrates. A little like yoga crossed with boxing, it stretches and eases your mind, then punches it into submission. And you know what? It works. Your goal is to place connector tiles on a board to clear it of differently coloured chips. Connecting two or more chips of the same colour clears
