Reviews
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! Review: Mash-Up Of Old-School Ideas And Modern App Sensibilities
| App Name: | Steve Jackson's Sorcery! |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | RPG, Books |
| Price: | $4.99 |
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Long, long ago, before we had smartphones or apps or even 8-bit gaming consoles, game designer Steve Jackson released Fighting Fantasy, a series of single-player paper RPGs that played something like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but with more rules. Now, developer Inkle has taken the first of these books and converted it into [...]
Real Racing 3 Review: Visually Jaw-Dropping Free Download that Plays Great… but with IAPs
Might as well come right out and say it—we’re nowhere near the first to review Real Racing 3, and by now you’ve heard time and again about how fantastic this game looks and how the gameplay is nearly-flawless… Well, we’ve finally played through Real Racing 3 and can say that it’s all true—it really does [...]
Mailbox Review: Clever, Intuitive Mail App That’s Great If You Only Use Gmail
When the Mailbox app hit the App Store earlier this Spring, the tech blogs exploded with joy. Here was mail done cleanly, intuitively, sleekly, better. Of course, there was the two-week wait initially to actually use the app, as the Mailbox team only slowly rolled out their server load. That situation has changed recently. Mailbox team [...]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rooftop Run Review: Your Childhood Heroes are back in this Mediocre Runner
So you’ve had an iPhone for years now, and all this time the only thing wrong with it was NOT ENOUGH TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES… We can relate. It was pretty thrilling to see the first TMNT game hit the App Store about a week ago, but less thrilling to find out the game was [...]
Star Command Review: Kickstarted Star Trek Sim Is Playable But Limited
| App Name: | Star Command |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Sim |
| Price: | $2.99 |
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Star Command is a game brought about by an early Kicksterter success story that almost turned into a Kicksterter failure. But now, two years and a second funding campaign later, this ambitious space sim has been loosed on the App Store. While Star Command isn’t everything it could be, it’s still a good game with [...]
Catching Up With Dungeon Hunter 4: IAPs Ruin It Again
Without question, one of the biggest disappointments of 2012 for me, personally, was Dungeon Hunter 3. Dungeon Hunter was impressively competent clone of the Diablo experience back in 2010; and in 2011, Dungeon Hunter 2 improved on every aspect of the original game’s experience. So when DH3 was announced, I was really looking forward to [...]
Location-Based Trends Hit Twitter app Via 5.6 Update! Along with other Fresh Features
Twitter began their most recent round of updates last week when—for the first time in a few years—the Mac app got some attention. Following that, Twitter turned its attention to the blossoming Vine app, which got support for the iPhone’s front-facing camera, as well as user mentions… Now it appears they saved the best for [...]
Fish Out of Water! Review: Five Stars! A Pleasant Distraction with Endless Replay Appeal
| App Name: | Fish Out Of Water! |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | action |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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If we had to think of some titles that have stood the test of time and become synonymous with iPhone gaming, chances are Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride would make the list. And what do these titles have in common? They were made by Halfbrick Studios—the same developers behind Fish Out Of Water!… In their [...]
Slayin’ Review: Combines Retro and RPG Into a Great Game
| App Name: | Slayin' |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Retro |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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Like retro? Like RPGs? Like simple, challenging games that tempt you into “one more try”? Then you’ve got to try Slayin’, the retro monster killing game from developer Pixel Licker and FDG that hits all the right notes. Slayin’ is a relatively simple game. You begin each game as a hero — Knight to begin [...]
Cut the Rope: Time Travel Review: The Formula Still Works
| App Name: | Cut the Rope: Time Travel |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Physics Puzzle |
| Price: | $0.99 |
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I hate reviewing iterative iPhone games. Angry Birds Seasons, Temple Run Oz, Doodle Jump Hop — there’s a real difference between a sequel and a skin, and sometimes it seems almost pointless to review them. So of course Zeptolab had to put out Cut the Rope: Time Travel, a new iteration on their popular Cut the Rope [...]
