Asteroids 2012
Tony Mei | Jan 8, 2012 Games
User rating: 
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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Asteroids 2012 ($2.99) by SKAPP Enterprises
Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Asteroids is a pioneer video game, classic staple on old arcade boxes and computers. Zoom around in your spaceship, shoot asteroids, and dodge threatening flying particle chunks. Now, Asteroids 2012 hopes to revamp this arcade classic by bringing in a graphical overhaul, a variety of ships and weapons, and a full 3D space-combat engine. Does this iPhone remake stand up to the popular arcade classic?
Asteroids 2012 lends an strong first impression. Graphics are sharp and cartoony, fully optimized for HD space glory. Navigating around the clever space station home screen is easy. There’s variety of game modes, ranging from the wave attack campaign to a mini-game where you fly across the galaxy looking for secret (guess what?) asteroids. Spend money on upgrading your weapons or unlocking shiny new ships.
Tags: $.99, arcade, Games, space shooter, Tony Mei
LilRacerz
Tony Mei | May 23, 2010 Games
User rating: 
(14 votes, average: 2.50 out of 5)
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LilRacerz , an inaugural app by developers Blast One, is by definition an arcade ‘micro racer’ style game. However, so much energy, polish and life is infused into this game that it transcends its genre, making you forgot you’re playing a top-down 2D racer that only cost two dollars.
The game play revolves around nine different tournament cups for you to win, each consisting of several unique races. At the end of each race you receive gold coins to spruce up your ride and at the conclusion of each cup (if you scored first or second cumulatively) you unlock a brand new car for the new tourney. It’s a simple and effective no-frills formula that kept me hooked right from the start.
Racing itself is made very easy by efficient and simple controls. You have your acceleration and brake pedals, two steering buttons for maneuvering left and right, and the ubiquitous ‘nitro’ key to give a little jolt to the engine. Controls were generally responsive, and I appreciated how the dev ingeniously placed the nitro right above the acceleration pedal, allowing you to activate it without taking your thumb off the acceleration. All the races consists of two to three laps with four AI opponents, usually making for a frenzied jockeying for position that makes this game a whole lot of pulse-pounding entertainment.
Invaders World Tour
Michael (Admin) | May 3, 2010 Free iPhone Promo Codes, Games
User rating: (15 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)
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If you’re old enough to have loved (and possibly still love) Space Invaders and Galaxian, then Invaders World Tour should bring back some nice, greasy, zit-faced memories!
MeYuMe’s old-school arcade revival combines elements from two of gaming history’s most classic titles… bug-eyed aliens line up across the sky in nicely organized formations, and some of the aliens will occasionally fly down to try and kick your ass. Your little spaceship guy at the bottom of the screen is accelerometer-controlled, meaning that you have to tilt left and right to keep it from getting blown up, and just like in Space Invaders you get three shield barriers to hide behind when things get too hot to handle. Shooting the aliens down is as easy as tapping anywhere on the screen. The “World Tour” part of the game comes in the form of different backdrops for each stage that represent various locales like USA, Canada, France, and England. If you fail to clear a stage, the place you’re defending gets blown to bits by those naughty aliens.
Giant Leap
Jacob Jones | Apr 15, 2010 Games
User rating: (54 votes, average: 2.69 out of 5)
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UPDATE: This App has dropped from $5.99 to $1.99!
In the game Giant Leap, you take the role of Hero, a lone marine with a convenient case of amnesia. With all his marine and scientist buddies killed in a freak alien attack, Hero is forced to wander the bloody halls of his ships fighting off hordes of Xoranid killers while reclaiming his lost memories. What happened on the ship? Are there any survivors? How did he lose his memories? If you can fight through the mountains of cliches, you’ll find that the basic game play in Giant Leap is quite enjoyable in the retro sense.
Tags: $5.99, arcade, Games, Jacob Jones
Graves Robber
Tony Mei | Feb 12, 2010 Games
User rating: (4 votes, average: 1.50 out of 5)
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Overview:
Machines guns. Rocket launchers. Zombies. Tight pants. Developed by iPhoGame Dev, Inc. This sentence fragment review is brought to you by a bored app reviewer.
Some good stuff:
Nice 3D visuals and rendering. 1st and 3rd person views. Collectable power ups. Money tracking, weapon upgrading, clothing purchasing. Variety of powerups to collect, save, and to lay waste the bosses with.
Recent update shortened my “Not so hot” list considerably. Gameplay is satisfying. Boss fights are satisfying. Getting mobbed by zombies and dying is less satisfying.
Some not so hot stuff:
About 4 different items to collect. Which isn’t a lot. All zombies act the same. Not very many power ups. Linear levels (kill zombies, kill boss, enter swirly portal). Game gets repetitive quick. Controls are occasionally screwy. Very little rpg-likeness.
Things that would make this app better:
More items, more upgrades, more stuff to do. But I basically say that about every app.
Should I buy it?:
Right now, this app is bare bones and simple, but has a great concept and an extremely ambitious starting. A recent update improving movement and reloading shows the dev’s dedication, and possibly of things to come.
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- Everything you need for a sucessful zombie thrashing.
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- This ominous purple portal. Sounds good.
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- Don't ask.
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- A fantastic vantage position. That pile of dirt has no chance.
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- I liked it better when zombies would only moan and shamble toward you.
Version 1.1
Reviewed on iPod Touch 3.1.2
Parcel Panic – Post Car Racer 3D
Brad H | Jan 1, 2010 Games
User rating: (3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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Welcome to Tapiti Island, home of Tapu City. This is where you get your big break in the delivery business. In your trusty pick up truck you drive around town picking up and delivering parcels, but don’t start lolly-gagging around because there is a time limit on each delivery. Starting out can be rough, with a truck called the snail, but things can only get better. With big dreams and hard work one day even you can drive the illustrious Falcon.
I was supposed to spend the day driving across California to buy myself a pick up truck but when that fell through I picked up this gem of a game and satiated my truck desires. Parcel Panic is way funner than a drive over the grape vine. Mad Processor hit the mark with this one. Just in the loading and menu screen alone the quality of this game shines through. Even though the game is graphically intensive it ran smooth on my iPhone 3G.
App Sale: Tap Tap Revenge 3
Michael (Admin) | Dec 24, 2009 App Sale Alert, Games
User rating: (3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
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Tap Tap Revenge 3 is on sale for free – normally $.99
If you’ve been tapping away at Tap Tap Revenge 2.6 because you got it when it was free and didn’t want to pay for Tap Tap 3, the tables have turned! Now 2.6 costs a buck and 3 is free.
Tap Tap Revenge 3 is all kinds of fancy with 1 player, 2 player, and online play modes and of course it lets you download “real” music from real artists you’ve probably heard on the radio or on your MTV. For the uninitiated, Tap Tap Revenge is basically a mobile variation on Guitar Hero where your instrument is your iPhone and you tap along to the beat of the music.
I like that Tapulous has really taken this concept and sprinted with it, but at the same time I’m a little disappointed with Tap Tap 3′s stability… even after restarting my iPhone after downloading the game, I still had some issues with the app freezing up on me. It’s still a very playable game, though, and I have a feeling Tapulous is already working on fixing known bugs in the system. If you like playing along with music and discovering new stuff to listen to, get this app while the price is zero.
iTunes Link – Tap Tap Revenge 3
Version 3.1
App Sale: Sentinel: Mars Defense
Michael (Admin) | Dec 11, 2009 App Sale Alert, Games
User rating: (3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
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Sentinel: Mars Defense is on sale for free – normally $.99-$1.99
Tower defense fans, if you don’t have at least one Sentinel game on your iPhone then you’re a huge loser! Chris J. loved the original Sentinel, Swain had high praise for Sentinel 2: Earth Defense, and I’ve just spent the last 90 minutes or so murdering throngs of aliens in Sentinel: Mars Defense which I think is really the original Sentinel but with a fancier name.
The graphics are awesome, there are lots of gun upgrades, and even though some users have criticized this game for being a sort of “preview” for Sentinel 2 it’s still very much worth playing. Origin8′s Sentinel series definitely qualifies in the category of top-shelf game development and now is the time to get this title if you don’t already have it.
iTunes Link – Sentinel: Mars Defense
Die, you alien bastards!!
Tags: arcade, td, tower defense
App Sale: Holiday Smash
Michael (Admin) | Dec 3, 2009 App Sale Alert, Games
User rating: (4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
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Holiday Smash is on sale for free – normally $1.99
‘Tis the season to… download all the Christmas-themed apps that descend upon the App Store at this time of year! Holiday Smash is basically a jacked up version of Breakout, and the stuff you’re breaking is all in the shape of various holiday things like snowmen and Christmas trees. Your paddle moves left and right with finger drags, and it also shoots lasers! So even when your balls are flying around (powerups make multiple balls possible) your lasers will be hard at work as they hack away at the stuff floating above.
Sea Lion Games just released this app the other day at $1.99 and immediately dropped the price to free, so who knows if it’ll actually go back to costing money. Either way, it’s free right now and it’s not bad! Kids tend to get antsy this time of year, so even if you’re not a fan of this kind of game yourself it could at least serve as a distraction for the little monsters in your life.
App Sale: Galactic Gunner
Michael (Admin) | Nov 14, 2009 App Sale Alert, Games
User rating: (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!
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.
App Sale: Guardian Missile Commander
Michael (Admin) | Oct 27, 2009 App Sale Alert, Games
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Guardian Missile Commander is on sale for free – normal price is $.99
You remember Missile Command, that old arcade game that’s been re-released about a million times since 1980? Guardian Missile Commander is a pretty nice remake… it doesn’t come equipped with a trac-ball or crappy 8-bit graphics, but if you loved that game then you should snag this one while the price is zero!
The main mission is the same as it was 30 years ago: destroy all the incoming missiles aimed at your cities. If you get as far as I did you’ll see missiles that start to zigzag and others that explode into missile clusters, and if there are more surprises beyond that I guess you’ll have to find out yourself.
There’s no global scoreboard (for shame!) but the gameplay is pretty much right on and you can’t argue with the current price!
iTunes Link – Guardian Missile Commander
Version 1.0
Reviewed on iPhone 3G OS3.1.2
Um... INCOMING!!
