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Flight Control Review
Flight Control is a combination of simple gameplay, and slowly raising difficulty. Each of the three airfields has a runway for a red plane, a yellow plane and one or more helicopters. A flight path has to be drawn for each of them so they safely land on the their runways. As the game continues, more aircraft appear on screen. If any two aircraft crash, it's game over. The planes and copters are controlled by drawing their flight path on the screen with your finger. At any time, you c…
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SCRABBLE Review
Scrabble is an iconic board game that has been around 1938, popularised in the 50's and is almost globally known in its gameplay. Simplicity reigns supreme in EA's release of Scrabble on the iPhone and you couldn't expect anything less from such a simple, yet challenging game. The letter tiles all use a simple drag and drop system for placement with the rest of the interface being responsive to simple touches. The iPhone has also been well considered by the use of a "Recall" button to…
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The Wars Review
The Wars is a strategy game where players must advance from the Stone Age through to the Space Age in order to attack and destroy the enemy base opposite you. You produce units to attack and fortify your base to defend against enemy troops while earning cash and slowly progressing to the next technology age. The game is controlled by tapping the screen to produce units, upgrade towers and make other choices. The units will march towards the enemy base on their own, so all you need to…
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I Dig It Review
There have been a couple mining games of late in the app store. I Dig it is the latest. Controlling a vehicle with jets and a giant drill, the goal is to find as much ore, gems and precious items as possible to pay off the debt on your farm. As you drill deeper, the rewards become greater, but you have to manage not only your vehicle's fuel, but your heat, cargo and damage as well. The game controls via an analogue stick at the bottom of the screen. To drill a section of earth, just t…
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DOOM Resurrection Review
First Person Shooters have had a bit of a shaky start on the iPhone. It seems no one can create a control scheme that suits the fast, frenetic action of the genre. Doom Resurrection has figured out one solution to the problem, have the game move your character for you, meaning that all the player has to worry about is destroying whatever is in their path. You are a marine, in a research base on Mars. An experiment has gone wrong and suddenly the complex is overrun by zombies and demon…
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CLUE Review
Clue is a puzzle game where players must investigate various murder cases by interviewing suspects, gathering clues and making accusations. If players are familiar with the Clue franchise, then you’ll know the framework for the murder mysteries that you will need to investigate. Players use the iPhone’s touch screen to talk to characters, change rooms and find clues. The controls are simple to use and players will not have a problem navigating through the different screens…
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Meteor - Brick Breaker Review
Meteor Brick Breaker is a brick smashing game where players control a small space ship and must smash all of the bricks in front of you in order to complete the level. Players can also utilize various power-ups and bonuses in order to break the bricks faster. Players control the spaceship by dragging their finger across the slider bar in the direction they want to move and launch the ball by tapping the ball itself. They must make sure to always keep the ball bouncing; otherwise they…
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Sneezies Review
Sneezies - Chain Reaction by Chillingo Ltd is a bubble popping arcade puzzle game with a difference - instead of lining up bubbles to pop, you let the Sneezies do the work for you with a single touch. It's another beautiful and relaxing game from one of the world's leading iPhone game publishers and it's a fun addition to anyone's collection. Your aim is to drop a single explosion of sneezing powder on the the screen which will set of a chain reaction of sneezes, hopefully freeing and…
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Edge Review
Edge is a cubist’s fantasy; a universe comprising of nothing but cubes and right angled shapes. In this strange world, players must roll their large colourful cube through the world, collecting smaller coloured cubes to increase your highscore. You will need to roll through and collect these cubes as fast as possible then make your make to the end of the level as fast as possible. The game’s default controls require players to move the cube by dragging their finger over it…
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Hidato: Puzzle Pack 1 Review
Hidato is a logic based puzzle game where players must place numbers around a game board as fast as they can in order to map out a path towards a treasure chest. The game board already has some numbers written on it, and it’s your goal to fill in the remaining gaps by placing the right numbers in the right spot. Numbers can be placed in any of the squares around the previously numbered square, but must be in ascending order to create a linear path. You control the placement of y…
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Mind Games 2 Review
The brain training genre of games have often felt like a hodge-podge collection of mini games that combine puzzles and arcade elements, scoring you for the sake of progress. In other words, they were less about training and more about the challenge. Mind Games 2 may be a fairly simple offering compared to other brain training games, but this one feels like the real deal; your brain will feel the burn. Most games use a simple touch to select answers from the plethora of game modes, tho…
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Topple 2 Review
Topple 2 is a physics based, block stacking game for the iPhone. Players must stack up different blocks in order to create a tower that reaches a certain height. Once players reach this goal they must keep stacking in order to get extra points and bonus multipliers. The game is over if four or more blocks falls from the tower and off the screen or the timer runs out. Block placement is quite simple; players tap on the blocks from the top of the screen and drag them down onto the base…
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Lady Gaga Revenge Review
For those of you who have had to look in two different places for music/rhythm gameplay and tracks from artist Lady Gaga, then your salvation has arrived in the form of Lady Gaga Revenge. The game features 16 of Lady Gaga’s tracks and all the usual Tap Tap Revenge gameplay you love. Like the other releases from developer Tapulous, players tap their way through a number of different songs in hopes of getting the highest score they can. If you’ve played Tap Tap Revenge games…
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Bloons Review
If you asked a monkey to throw a limited amount of sharp darts at a bunch of tethered balloons and scored him based on how many he managed to pop, you'd probably look a little mad. But if you buy Bloons by Digital Goldfish you can live out that dream in all of its puzzle based glory; or if it's not your dream, you can at least enjoy the plethora of clever puzzles within. The control is simple, with players draging their finger to set the power and angle of their shots. Annoyingly, the…
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Ricky + Level Editor Review
If you are one of the millions of Super Mario fans around the world then you might want to have a look at Ricky. Not because of its gameplay or features, but because it’s a lower quality rip off of Nintendo’s favourite plumber. And if any thing mentioned sounds familiar, feel free to jump and up and yell “Mario did it!” Ricky, the apparent illegitimate love child of Mario and Kirby, must travel across different themed worlds, collecting stars and jumping…
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