Posts Tagged ‘arcade’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Roadkill Cafe is on sale for *free*! Normal price is $.99 – $1.99
I confess that I’ve only spent about 15 minutes playing this game, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say drop what you’re doing and get Roadkill Cafe right now while it’s still free!
It’s funny, it’s gross, it’s well produced, [...]