iPad Reviews
Avengers Alliance Review: About As Good As Freemium Can Get
Okay, let’s get something out of the way here: I am about to review a pure freemium model game. Avengers Alliance is straight off of Facebook and built by Playdom, a top freemium game developer. It’s the kind of game I’ve derided on Massively Portable more than once, the kind of game that I usually [...]
World War Z Review: Better Than Your Average Movie Tie-In
| App Name: | World War Z |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Third person shooter |
| Price: | $3.99 |
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The last two games I played from Phosphor Games, Dark Meadow and Horn, were both high-quality games that showed off the best of what both iOS and the Unreal Engine can achieve. So color me surprised when I found out that their next iOS was going to be World War Z, the game version of [...]
Kingdom Rush Frontiers Review: Another Tower Defense Winner
| App Name: | Kingdom Rush Frontiers |
| Platforms: | iPhone/iPod |
| Genre(s): | Tower Defense |
| Price: | $2.99 iPhone, $4.99 iPad |
If ever it comes time to retire a game genre, tower defense games should be first in line. It’s come to the point where I cringe whenever I’m asked to review one. Luckily, this time the game in question is Kingdom Rush Frontiers, the sequel to what was inarguably last year’s best TD game. Kingdom [...]
Warhammer Quest Review: Satisfying Old School Dungeon Crawling
| App Name: | Warhammer Quest |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Turn-Based RPG |
| Price: | $4.99 |
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There’s an old tabletop board game called Warhammer Quest that came out in the mid-1990s. Like so many games in the tabletop realm, it stayed in production for only a few years but has developed a dedicated cult following. Some of those followers must be developers with Rodeo Games, because their iOS translation of Warhammer [...]
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol Review: Great WWI Aerial Combat
| App Name: | Sid Meier's Ace Patrol |
| Platforms: | iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch |
| Genre(s): | flight |
| Price: | Free! |
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There are quite a variety of ways you could wind up reading this review. Maybe you’re a WWI fanatic—interested in any game that does honor to the historical period from 1914-1918… Maybe you don’t care what time period or universe a game is set in, you just can’t get enough flight combat sims, especially the [...]
Gravity Guy 2 Review: High-Jumping Runner Fun
Miniclip has made a lot of games, and so it’s always interesting to see what they come up with next. Their most recent release for iOS, Gravity Guy 2, is a return to the endless runner game. And while this take on the genre isn’t completely original, Gravity Guy 2 is a fun and challenging [...]
LEGO Batman: DC Super Heroes for iOS Review: Another Fun LEGO Game For The iPhone
| App Name: | Lego Batman: DC Super Heroes |
| Platforms: | Universal |
| Genre(s): | Platformer |
| Price: | $4.99 |
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I do not think that Traveler’s Tales has ever made a bad LEGO game. Some of them are better than others, but I have enjoyed every market-licensed outing I’ve ever taken with this creative and fun series. Happily, TT keeps up the good work with LEGO Batman: DC Super Heroes, their iOS version of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
