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Civilization Revolution Review
Sid Meirs' Civilization series is one of the most addictive strategic video games in history. A bold statement, but its tech trees, exploration, and 'one more turn' style of gameplay has kept this reviewer glued to his screen since the early 90s. In this port of the most recent game in the series, we see how this style of gameplay transfers to the iPhone. You start the game by choosing a world leader and beginning your civilization around 3000 BC. As you build your armies, cities, and…
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Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor Review
It's a rare moment to come across a game on the iPhone that oozes style and addictive gameplay. It's even rarer for it to be the first publication of a new developer. Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor by Tiger Style has set the bar high for gaming on a mobile device with an action/adventure that ties elegant gameplay with a mature narrative and a slick artistic style. The main objective of the game is to feed your spider by creating geometric webs to capture insects, which is further…
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Stay Review
Stay is a puzzle game where players must balances a small pink shape on a see-saw like board for as long as they can. To do this, players must counter balance the board by placing other squares on either side. Different squares have different weights and must be placed effectively to stop the pink shape from falling off completely. You drop different square pieces onto the board by tapping the screen. You cannot control the size pieces that will drop, but you can see what sizes will d…
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Geared Review
Geared is a puzzle game where players must place different sized gears in order to reach and turn each level's blue gear. The difficulty gets harder and player must deal with no drop zones, obstacles and multiple blue gears to turn at once. Players choose the different gears by tapping on the gear buttons at the bottom of the screen with their finger and dragging the gear to where they want to place it. If gears are placed correctly, they will begin to turn as they should, if there ar…
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Skabooki Review
Skabooki is a quirky puzzle game where you must safely guide Skabooki, a voodoo doll, through the various levels by removing blocks from under him. Players will need to make sure he drops in the right places and in order to not only escape but rack up as many points as possible. You remove sets of three or more blocks by tapping on them but you will have to be careful about which blocks you remove. Because Skabooki cannot move, it is quite easy to run out of moves or get stuck. There…
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Aqua Globs Review
Aqua Globs is a puzzle game where players must match up little globs with other globs of the same colour. You earn points for each pair of coloured globs you match, but if different coloured globs touch you will lose a life. The goal of the game is to get as many points as you can before losing your three lives. You control your globs by tapping on them and drawing a path for them to follow. If you see another glob of the same colour, draw a path linking the two and they will follow i…
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Cartoon Wars Review
Cartoon Wars is a tower defence game that has players not only defending their own tower, but creating troops in order to destroy the tower opposite you. You constantly upgrade your units and tower in order to survive and defeat the oncoming forces. You control unit production by tapping the unit boxes at the bottom of the screen. More units will become available to use once you purchase them from the upgrades menu. You also control a crossbow at the top of your tower, which is aimed…
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Nano Rally Review
Nano Rally is a racing game where players take control of a miniature racecar and race around a number of tracks and areas around a house. Players must navigate, adjust car specs and race through in the quickest time possible. The track scores are all added up to a grand total, your goal is to complete all the tracks while slowly grinding down your overall race time. You control your car by using the buttons in the lower part of the screen. Gas, brakes and steering are all controlled…
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Crazy Monkey Spin Review
Crazy Money Spin is an adventure game where players control Momo the Monkey as he must try and save all his animal friends who are being captured and locked up by the mysterious Caretaker. Players swing Momo by flicking the screen in the direction they wish to jump. Players jump through levels by swinging along pegs and collecting bananas in order to reach a trapped animal friend at the end. The controls are simple to use and make for fun gameplay when trying to collect all the level'…
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iEscaper! -Escape From the Ninja's Lair- Review
‘IEscaper! - Escape from the Ninja's Lair’ is a puzzle game that has players trapped inside a Ninja’s Lair and solving puzzles in order to escape. As the player progresses through the different levels, the puzzles get harder and traps that can kill the player become part of this deadly game. You control your character by tapping the screen in order to move and look around the room, reveal clues or solve puzzles. Items can be collected and stored in your inventory for…
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BoXiKoN Review
Boxikon by Paul Burkey is an odd puzzle game, but that's not a bad thing at all when you're attempting to cram 74 different shape combinations in to a grid to score some points. Available for several years on PC and Mac, the iPhone version is a polished arcade puzzle game and delivers a Tetris come Bejeweled style of gameplay that's almost immediately addictive. Boxikon uses a drag and drop system that utilises a second finger to rotate the piece currently selected. While this can be…
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Zombies vs. Sheep Review
Zombies vs. Sheep is a shooting gallery type game, where the player takes control of a sheep and shoots zombies, bats and other nasties in order to survive. You dodge attacks, shoot enemies, collect coins and upgrade your sheep to take on the ever growing attacks of the undead. You control your sheep by tilting the iPhone to move, shoot zombies by tapping the screen and shaking the iPhone or tapping a button to reload. The controls are simple to use and makes gameplay challenging when…
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Car Mania Review
Car Mania is a management style game similar to games like Harbour Master or Railroad Madness. You must direct inner city traffic through various paths to each coloured destination. You increase your score by getting cars safely to their destinations and must try to keep the drivers road rage meter down for as long as possible. If this meter fills up then it’s game over. You control the flow of cars by tapping on a car to select it and then dragging a path along the screen for t…
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Subway Shuffle Review
Subway Shuffle is a puzzle game where players must move their train cart across the tracks to get to the end of the level. However, players must move other train carts out of the way in order to clear a path for them to do so. Players control their carts by sliding them along the tracks using their finger. Carts are restricted to their respective coloured tracks and cannot move across other tracks, so players will need to juggle different coloured carts in order to clear a path for yo…
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Bumper Stars - Addiction Alert! Review
Bumper Stars is a puzzle game where you take control of a morbidly obese beaver and must bounce around different levels collecting fruit. The aim of the game is to collect all fruit in under three shots, while hitting different bumpers to increase your highscore and keep moving. You control your beaver by dragging a line across your iPhone screen, and then releasing your finger to let him fly. He will bounce off any objects in his path and get more of a boost if he hits a bumper. Bonu…
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I own all three (Rio, Vice City, and GTA 3). And out of them, I very much prefer GTA 3.