Elven Chronicles
Michael (Admin) | Nov 17, 2009 Games
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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As you can probably tell by the name, Elven Chronicles is all medieval with swords and dragons and spells and all that. It’s an RPG, and if you’re a big enough nerd to automatically know that an RPG is a role-playing game then this is may be something you could sink your teeth into. People who have already compared it to Zelda and Final Fantasy are right on in some respects… it’s a little like old school Zelda (but better!) in the graphics department and similar to Final Fantasy in that it features turn-based battles, but whether or not you go ga-ga for this game will depend on what kind of RPG’er you are and that’s something I’ll get into later.
Every RPG is set against a storyline backdrop, and in this one you play the role of Rogan, a young stud who wakes up after being ambushed by bad guys. Apparently it’s your lucky day because you’re being cared for by a hot elf girl named Jada and, if it were me, I’d probably sit around drinking ale all day and let the world go to hell. Luckily for mankind, though, Rogan is waaaaay more noble than I am so he and the lady elf immediately go off and start completing quests handed to them by the locals. Obtain these items, defeat that monster, become a Level (x) badass, that kind of thing.
Tags: $3.99, action rpg, retro
Free Codes: Bar Rush
Michael (Admin) | Nov 17, 2009 Free iPhone Promo Codes, Games
User rating: (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Time management games are usually pretty fun, but this one actually teaches you how to make cocktails! Nice.
iTunes Link : Bar Rush
On deck: Run Hamster Run (Games)
FacebookBirthdays
Michael (Admin) | Nov 17, 2009 Utilities
User rating: (3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Here’s the good news on FacebookBirthdays: it does what it says it does by listing all of your Facebook friends by month and showing when their birthday is. I just installed this app yesterday so I can’t speak to how well the push feature works, but let’s give it the benefit of the doubt in that area and assume it works.
Here’s the bad news on FacebookBirthdays: it doesn’t do anything else! There are several other apps that also display Facebook birthday info plus a little more, and I think that’s ok if this app would just be the best at it… but gosh darnit, it doesn’t even have an options panel, and the “Today & Upcoming” only shows birthdays from my Contacts instead of Facebook. I like that it shows birthdays from my Contacts, but that’s not the main purpose of this app.
If my name were Konstantinos and I had the ability to make this app way better than it currently is, here’s what I’d do…
Tags: $.99, social networking
Free Codes: Dead Panic
Michael (Admin) | Nov 17, 2009 Free iPhone Promo Codes, Games
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(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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Kill all the zombies before they invade New York and New Jersey! Ok, they can have New Jersey… but at least save NYC!
iTunes Link : Dead Panic
On deck: Bar Rush (Games)
Free Codes: Reef Fish
Michael (Admin) | Nov 16, 2009 Entertainment, Free iPhone Promo Codes
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Everything you ever wanted to know about tropical fish but were afraid to ask.
iTunes Link : Reef Fish
On deck: Dead Panic (Games)
Free Codes: Block Busting Planet Panic
Michael (Admin) | Nov 16, 2009 Free iPhone Promo Codes, Games
User rating: (2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Keep your rover from falling over in this physics-based game.
iTunes Link : Block Busting Planet Panic
On deck: Reef Fish (Entertainment)
App Sale: Galactic Gunner
Michael (Admin) | Nov 14, 2009 App Sale Alert, Games
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(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
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Galactic Gunner is on sale for free – normally $.99-$2.99
I’ve only played a little bit of this game and it’s pretty good, especially if you can get it for nothing! You play the part of the gunner on a fighter ship in some kind of epic struggle against bad aliens called Trepidoids. The game mostly involves a lot of frantic tapping as you try to shoot down the enemy, and Ezone did a nice job on the 3D graphics.
Galactic Gunner went on sale two days ago so it could start costing $$$ anytime now. Hurry up and grab it while it’s still free!
Free Codes: Strummer
Michael (Admin) | Nov 14, 2009 Free iPhone Promo Codes, Music
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Turn your iPhone into a guitar!
iTunes Link : Strummer
On deck: Block Busting Planet Panic (Games)
POV: Cell War
Swain Valasek | Nov 13, 2009 Games, POV
User rating: (1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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* “POV” (Point of View) is a new feature that we’re testing out *
TipCat Mobile’s rating: 8.0
IAR’s rating: 8.0
TipCat Mobile (a CWC company) has certainly made a splash with their first action game for the iPhone called Cell War. It’s an arcade shooter, a horizontal shmup to be exact (and we’re all about exact here at IAR). There’s no shortage of these babies in the app store so does it carve out a niche or simply step to the back of the line? TipCat tells us it’s the former and I tend to agree…read on for their capsule review followed by the comments of yours truly in the name of all that’s honest and fair.
Tags: $2.99, shmup, side scroller, Swain Valasek
Free Codes: On The Menu
Michael (Admin) | Nov 13, 2009 Free iPhone Promo Codes, Reference
User rating: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Do you get confused when you look at a menu where the writing’s in cursive and the words “burger” and “fries” are nowhere to be found? On The Menu will help decode the bizarre language found in fancy restaurants.
iTunes Link : On The Menu
On deck: Strummer (Music)
Free Codes: CoffeeTalk
Michael (Admin) | Nov 13, 2009 Free iPhone Promo Codes, Lifestyle
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Has ordering coffee gotten so complicated that we need a glossary to speak the lingo? Apparently it has! CoffeeTalk is that glossary.
iTunes Link : CoffeeTalk
On deck: On The Menu (Reference)
SkySmash 1918
Michael (Admin) | Nov 13, 2009 Games
User rating: (3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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The past few weeks I haven’t been reviewing too many apps because of the backlog of free codes, and now that it’s time to get back to reviewing stuff I can’t think of a better way to do it than with a kickass shmup!
SkySmash 1918 is your basic top-down shooter, a la Hotfield and iFighter, and it’s beautiful. It seems like Richard Wilson didn’t put a ton of thought into the design of some of the menus, but screw menus! It’s the game that counts, and the game itself is really a sight to behold. I guess it’s mostly the ground graphics that have me so impressed. When you’re playing this type of game, the entire backdrop is what’s beneath your plane (in this case it’s a biplane, actually) and SkySmash’s ground looks really nice. Crisp is probably a better word. Everything else in the game is top-notch as well… from the way the biplane moves and tilts to the Hogan’s Heroes soundtrack to all the crap that’s exploding in the sky around you, it’s got all the trademarks of a very well produced shooter.
