App Reviews
Dodonpachi Resurrection Review: Bullet Hell!
Upon playing Japanese developer Cave’s newest iOS offering, Dodonpachi Resurrection, my reaction was basically: oh, so THIS is why they call it “bullet hell!”
In fact, forget bullets here. Bullets? We don’t need no stinkin’ bullets … when we have missiles and twirling lasers and glorious bombs and insane hyper beams exploding into screens full of [...]
Epic Citadel Review: Gorgeous Preview Of What’s To Come
Epic games didn’t wasn’t any time in following up on their incredible demonstration at yesterday’s Apple keynote. Almost immediately, Epic Citadel became available in the App Store. Unlike a typical demo that gives a teaser sample of some gameplay, Epic Citadel survives on visuals alone. It is, hands down, the most beautiful thing we’ve seen [...]
Spider-Man: Total Mayhem Review: Awesomesauce
The sometimes maligned but never disputed king of iPhone console-quality games, Gameloft, has just released their take on the web-headed wall-crawler Spider-Man, with Spider-Man: Total Mayhem. This rock-em, sock-em action game is an awesome take on the source material and one of the best Gameloft titles to date.
In Spider-Man: Total Mayhem, you play through a [...]
9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2011 Review: The Best Yet, But Room to Improve
I label myself a casual baseball fan, and as such, I don’t really understand those people who sit in the bleachers with their rosters, scribbling notes and checking boxes after each piece of action. What are they writing? Is it a secret? If so, it must be a boring one, cause let’s face it, baseball [...]
The Oregon Trail Review: Nostalgic Remix
It is quite possible that the very first computer game I ever played was MECC’s classic edutainment title The Oregon Trail. And like any child of the early 1980s, my memories of fixing wagons, fording rivers, and mourning the loss of little Susy to measles is enshrined in glittering nostalgia. So when I saw that [...]
2K Sports NHL 2K11 Review: Now This is More Like It
It’s remarkable that, until now, iPhone gamers looking for a good hockey game have few options. Several months ago, we got our hands on Hockey Nations 2010 from developer Distinctive Wireless, and while it was good to finally experience a hockey simulation for iOS, the game itself was quite disappointing . . . But now [...]
Splinter Cell: Conviction HD Review
I do not currently own either an XBox 360 or a PS3, and so my exposure to the Tom Clancy games is somewhat limited. I was excited, therefore, to see Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction HD for the iPad. Rather than try to port over an entire console game, as they did with Prince of [...]
Fragger Review: Grenade Chuckin’ Fun
Fragger, the new iPhone offering from MiniClip.com, is a launching physics puzzle, the kind of game where you must sort out the correct trajectory and power of a launched object in order to hit a target. In this case, the object is a grenade, the targets are ski-masked soldiers (or maybe terrorists), and the challenge [...]
Times for iPad Review: Lacking Where It Counts
Avid RSS fans are truly becoming spoiled for options on the iPad. From the eminently usable Reeder (review) to the slick and snazzy Pulse (review), there’s a lot of apps out there vying for the feed reader’s dollar. Recently entered into the fray is Times for iPad from Acrylic Software, the reader that wants to treat [...]
Monster Dash Review: Another Gem from Halfbrick Studios
I’ve spent enough time referencing Fruit Ninja in previous reviews, so suffice it to say that Monster Dash from Halfbrick Studios has big shoes to fill. The developers have cemented themselves as masters of addictive gameplay, and luckily this new title continues that theme. What’s interesting is that they didn’t choose to create another entirely [...]
