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Underground Review
There aren’t a lot of games about graffiti culture but Undeground manages to present a small insight into this mysterious world, while offering some creative horizontal-shooter gameplay. Based in an underground train station, players take control of a spray can that has transformed into a space ship. You then proceed to fly through the subway, shooting business men, gas masks and other custom art enemies. Players move the ship by tilting their iPhone around and control the angle…
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Aera Review
Aera is a game that puts player into the cockpit of a small airplane as you progress through a number of levels. There isn’t much on offer in the way of story but the game does feature an impressive number of extra modes - such as races, token collection and dog fights with other planes. The game is a temperamental beast when it comes to the control scheme. You will either have to invest a lot of time into learning how to use the tilt controls properly or put up with the frustra…
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Meteor Blitz Review
It's nice to see a successful iPhone game at least nod to its predecessors. Alley Labs is bold enough to produce a clone of the successful Stardust series for the iPhone and even acknowledge this on their app store page, but it's undeniable that they've made Meteor Blitz a great game for the iPhone. Blitz is an evolution the classic Asteroid arcade game using dual virtual-analogue sticks to control your movement and direction of firing. The aim is to clear the screen of as many enemie…
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geoDefense Swarm Review
Much like its predecessor, geoDefense Swarm by Critical Thought Games is not an easy game to master, but manages to remain a fun and visually exciting game that deserves its place amongst the best in the considerably well filled tower defense genre. The addition of open field tower defense gameplay required some changes from the original geoDefense and what was once a fairly free-form placement of towers is now locked in to a hexagonal grid. Placement is fairly easy with a cross-hair…
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Dexter the Game Review
Dexter the Game is a spin-off title from the hit Showtime show ‘Dexter’. Players are put in the shoes of everyone’s favourite serial killer as you follow some of the stories and missions from season one. As Dexter, you investigate crime scenes, perform various forensic tests and of course, kill other serial killers all while masking your dark side from those around you. If you’ve seen the show, then you’ll be familiar with what to do. Player movement and…
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Numbers to 1 - Brain Puzzle Review
Numbers to 1 is a puzzle logic game for the iPhone where players must move different tiles around until they all equal one. Also, the bottom right hand corner square must always be empty. Your goal is to progress through each puzzle and dimension to complete them all. To solve the puzzles, you will have to move number across other tiles into a gap by tapping them. As they cross the gap it will subtract the number it jumps over. For example if a three block jumps over a two block, it w…
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DinoBoom Review
Dino Boom is an action game where players must defend their green dinosaurs and attack the blue enemy dinosaurs. You attack and defend using a number of different spells that you cast by drawing out on the screen, similar to Okami. Your goal is to protect your dinosaurs while launching attacks to kill the enemy dinosaurs and rack up points doing so. You select a spell by tapping on the icon at the bottom of the screen and then dragging your finger in one continuous motion along the li…
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Sumbu Review
Sumbu is a touch controlled iPhone game where players must tap a series of bubble containing scores and multipliers in order to reach the required score to finish the level. Players must chain bubbles that have the same numbers or shapes inside them in order to max out your highscore. Players tap on each bubble to pop them but must watch out for bubbles that will hinder your gameplay, such as armoured bubbles. You’ll be given a certain number of bubbles to pop in order to reach…
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Blokuz Review
Blokuz is a puzzle game where players must remove all coloured blocks from the game board by pairing them up. The levels begin using two types of coloured blocks, but soon more colours are used making the levels a lot more complicated. By tapping on a block to highlight all touching blocks of that colour and then tapping again, players can clear that section from the game board. You can only clear away two or more touching blocks of the same colour and all blocks must be cleared in or…
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South Park Mega Millionaire Review
South Park Mega Millionaire is a game where you take control of your four favourite foul mouthed kids as they try to win 10,000 Yen on a Japanese game show. You must slip and slide around a number of different levels in order to collect cash and tokens needed to continue. You control the boys by tilting the iPhone to move and by tapping the screen to jump. Otherwise players can opt to use directional buttons to move instead. The controls are simple and very easy to use but seem a litt…
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Oil Spill Review
Oil Spill is a puzzle game where players must try to clean up oil spills by dropping oil drops onto them in order to pop them. Once a bubble pops, it will shoot out other oil drops that will in turn pop more bubbles. You have a limited supply of oil drops, so you will have to chain together these explosions in order to clear the board and maximise your highscore. Players control which bubbles to pop by tapping on them. If they are full, they will pop and shoot out more oil drops, hope…
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Adrenaline Golf Online Review
Golf games have been gaining popularity recently, especially in the appstore. The latest one to catch our attention is from develepors Eurocentre with their offering Adrenaline Golf Online. It is an addictive putt putt game with a focus on multiplayer. Adrenaline Golf offers four 18 hole courses to play through in multiple modes. There is Classic where you play traditional rules, trying to sink your ball in as few strokes possible, but there is also Star Hunter, where you have the add…
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grabl Review
What would happen if you took a popular word based board game, paired it with an arcade style and a time limit to keep you on your mental toes? Ok to be honest that does cover most of the word-based games on the iPhone, but grabl by Rocketmaker Productions is all about making the largest word web your mind can conjure and showing it off to your friends. A lot of the standard board game controls are used here; pinch controls the board zoom, single touch swipes let you move the play fie…
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Cassandra's Journey: The Legacy of Nostradamus Review
Cassandra’s Journey is a picture hunt type game for the iPhone. You play as Cassandra, a young psychic who is trying to find her Grandmother's magic ring. You soon discover the ring belonged to Nostradamus and must search different levels for clues in order to find it. You control the game by tapping on various hidden objects once you have spotted them. They will then be crossed off your list once you have clicked on them and you continue on your hunt. You can also zoom in to ge…
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Coin Soccer Review
Coin Soccer is a small scale sports game where you must flick coins around a soccer field to try and score a goal. You are in control of three coins and in order to advance must flick one coin between the other two. If your coin does not pass between the two other coins, then you are charged with an illegal move and it is the opponents turn. You control your coins by swiping the area behind them in order to flick them in the direction you want. You can flick your middle coin backwards…
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