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Doodle Jump Review
Looking for a diversion on your iPhone? Well Doodle Jump might just be the game for you. Like the name suggests, you play a strange notebook doodle and your goal is to jump from platform to platform while avoiding other strange notebook doodles. The higher you jump, the higher your score. Very simple, yet very addictive. The controls are part of the reason for the addictiveness. You simply tilt the iPhone to jump from platform to platform, and if you wish to destory an enemy, tap the…
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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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Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D Review
Being an architect has never been so easy. In Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D it's your job to construct high-rise towers as sturdy as you can. The towers are built floor by floor. If you land a floor perfectly, a combo starts, increasing population. This is important in build city mode, where tower placement adds to the game's complexity. Tower building is as easy as touching the screen to drop the next floor as it swings overhead. Different coloured towers hold different populations depending…
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Knights Onrush Review
Tower defense games have become a popular genre in the last few years. What happens when you combine one with touch controls? You get Knights Onrush. You have a castle. Waves of enemies attack it. Using your finger and defenses you can purchase and upgrade, how long can you hold out? The difference between this and other tower defense games though is that as the player, you get involved as well. Defending your castle is as easy as lifting a finger. The main control is flicking the onc…
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Scoops - Ice Cream Fun For Everyone Review
Who hasn't thought of building an ice cream cone to the heavens? In Scoops, it's your goal to stack as many scoops of ice cream on top of your cone as you can, avoiding the nasty vegetables. Once you collect three vegetables, it's game over. How high can you go? Controlling your tower of ice cream is handled by tilting the iPhone left and right. There's a level of finesse involved as you can wobble the ice cream, bounce a vegetable off the side, and grab another scoop on the other sid…
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PathPix Review
PathPix is a puzzle game where players must draw lines between matching coloured numbers to make an image. The lengths of the lines are restricted by the numbers at the two ends. For example, if you want to join up two boxes of five, the path between them must be five spaces long. Players drag out a path once they have found a matching pair of numbers in close proximity to each other. Players can also drag the drawn line back to its starting box in order to undo it or adjust it. The n…
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Arcade Bowling™ Review
Developer Skyworks has brought the classic arcade game Skeeball to the Iphone and Ipod Touch. Arcade Bowling has a simple goal. You have nine balls to roll up the ramp and into the holes, trying to set the highest score possible. The controls are effective and quite responsive. You simply flick your finger up the ramp to launch the ball, and then tilt the phone to influence the balls direction while it's in the air. The visuals are reminiscent of the original Skeeball game and…
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Homerun Battle 3D Review
Homerun Battle 3D is a game where players take control of a baseball batter and must hit as many homeruns as they can before the end of each game round. Players are also able to change their characters look and upgrade their gear in order to increase game stats and make hitting homeruns easier. Balls will be pitched at a small white box just in front of the player. By tilting the iPhone, players can control the angle of their strike and try to match it to the balls final position for…
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Zombieville USA Review
Zombieville USA is a ‘run and gun’ type game where you play as a distinctly american looking man, running through various neighborhoods killing zombies and checking houses for money and ammo. Your goal here is to survive, but in raiding houses and killing zombies, you earn cash to upgrade or buy new weapons and refill your health. There are four buttons in the game, one to move in each direction, a melee attack button and a shoot button. Players must kill as many zombies a…
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geoDefense Review
Geo-Defense is a game that certainly tests your tower defense skills. Having to strategically place blasters, laser cannons and other weapons to prevent hoards of creeps destroying your headquarters. The menu is easy to navigate making all the options for this game readily available. The in game controls allow you to do anything you have to quickly and efficiently. After advancing to some higher levels, this reviewer was definitely thankful for this. You can buy, upgrade, or sel…
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Parachute Panic HD Review
FDG Entertainment's new game Parachute Panic has you trying to guide parachuting stickmen onto moving ships whilst avoiding all sorts of obstacles. The control system works well. You tap the stickmen to open their parachute and create gusts of wind with the flick of a finger to help move your men in the right direction. Obstacles will appear that you either have to avoid or destroy by tapping them several times in succession. This game doesn't have a wide variety of modes and the gra…
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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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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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MW Classic by Zynga Review
If you ever played the incredibly popular Facebook application Mafia Wars, then rejoice in this new port for the iPhone. The game play is the same as you remember it but with a few extra inclusions and easier access. Players must create their own mobster profile and rise up the ranks by taking on criminal jobs and fighting other mobsters. Players make their game choices by tapping on the screen and are all stat based. For example, if you choose to fight another mobster, you will win o…
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Bookworm Review
It's hard to escape the occasional word based game on the iPhone. In fact it's incredibly hard to escape them. So when a company like Popcap makes a word game you can only hope it's not only fun, but it sets the standard for other developers. Bookworm is Popcap's flagship spelling game brought to the iPhone and the word is "good". Selecting words is as easy as tapping it out on the screen using the tiles presented, keeping each successive letter joined to the last. Like other spelling…
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