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The 1.1 update for InMotion Software’s dual-stick dungeon-crawler, Catacombs, went live today, bringing significant improvements to the game. When I reviewed the 1.0 version of the game last month I found it Worth A Look, but the many improvements in 1.1 have me reconsidering that score.
A new quest system has been added, providing goals for the player. There [...]
Benjamin Padget’s Earth Vs. Moon has long been hailed as one of the best missile command games in the app store, and has gone free today only as part of FreeAppADay.com’s promotions. Inspired by Atari’s 1980 arcade classic Missile Command, Earth Vs. Moon updates and innovates that concept while also paying homage to other classics [...]
The Great Giana Sisters, first released in 1987, was so scandalously similar to Super Mario Bros. that Nintendo immediately reacted and succeeded in having the title struck from the market. Available for only a short while before going M.I.A., the game nonetheless managed to become a hit in Europe and thereafter to garner an enduring [...]
Vector Tanks, released last year by Peter Hirschberg, was a remake of the 1980 Atari arcade game Battlezone and hooked me instantly. Since then, Hirschberg has teamed up with a few other individuals to form BlipTime Studios. As a studio, the team has re-released his original game as Vector Tanks Classic, and more recently published [...]
Marco Mazzoli’s Spirit is a game that truly embodies the spirit of the app store. Tightly woven, elegantly presented, thoroughly engrossing, incredibly fluid, easy to pick-up and play, difficult to put down, Spirit is a paradigm example of independent game development for the iPhone.
The concept is simple: using touch controls to direct your spirit, you [...]
Heavy Gunner 3D marks Com2Us‘ first foray into the science-fiction genre. Previously known for their successful RPG The Chronicles of Inotia: A Wanderer of Luone, this new title is something of a stylistic departure for Com2Us. The game favors an aesthetic of gritty realism over the cartoon fantasy and sometimes cutesy presentation of previous titles, [...]
InMotion Software is seemingly obsessed with underground tunnels. Catacombs is the latest release from the developer of such subterranean titles as Dungeon Defense, I Dig It and I Dig It Expeditions. And with the massive success of the latter two titles, Catacombs has big shoes tunnels to fill. Unfortunately, much like the bodies there entombed, [...]
Most people assume that when — not if — the zombie apocalypse finally befalls us, those with the largest caches of ammunition and nonperishable foods will be the most likely to survive. According to PopCap, however, those people have got it all wrong. It’s the gardeners and the greenhouse keepers who will survive, not by [...]
Simple, addictive gameplay, rockets and time trials are the order of the day in Donut Games‘ Comet Racer. A casual game at its heart, the object of the game is to complete courses with the best possible time. Along the way, you’ll hit boost panels, gather power-ups and race against the ghosts of your previous [...]
Since its announcement last year, FDG Entertainment’s Across Age has been one of the app store’s most hotly anticipated titles. FDG has not been shy about its RPG, fueling the flames with a steady stream of screen captures, trailer videos and grand talk. And with successful titles such as Bobby Carrot, Kryzer and Parachute Panic already [...]
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