No, Yoda is not in this game. At least as far as I know -- he could still be hiding out somewhere within, because this time and resource management sim courtesy of Youda and G5 is absolutely sprawling!
Imagine if Bobcat Goldthwait grew a beard, set up a concession stand on a New York City curbside, and began "cooking" by chucking meat cleavers at a stream of food and condiments tossed high up in the air. With Game Center achievements.
iOS devs are keeping us busy here at iFanzine! No sooner did we hop out of the mech from "iDamaged" than we stepped into the lead tank of Miralupa's "Chromian Wars" -- and dove into the world of Augmented Reality gaming.
Alawar Entertainment's ushering in the Halloween season early with this time management game, originally developed by Artifex Mundi for the PC. Its status as a port comes as a drawback in the interface department on the smaller iDevices, but "Haunted Domains" is otherwise as compelling as it is spooky.
Going into this, I refused to believe that the words "arcade" and "farm sim" could possibly go together. Several hours of nail-biting resource management challenge later, I came away a "Farm Frenzy" junkie. Just don't tell my friends, okay? They think I'm playing "Halo" and "Gears of War."
If you think managing a high school sounds like the dullest videogame premise ever, think again! Kairosoft returns with another winning management sim. Genre fans will applaud its depth, challenge, and replay value equally, although you shouldn't go into this one expecting pick-up-and-play simplicity.
You’d think that iOS gaming would be the perfect medium for digital pinball. Who wouldn’t love to steal a few moments waiting for a bus or during study hall playing their favorite table? And while there have been about a dozen decent attempts at developing or porting pinball to our favorite platform, (as well as innumerable poor attempts), the genre feels like it has yet to hit stride. Pinball Dreams HD is definitely a step in the right direction.
Archery sims are few and far between. And it's not hard to see why; the mechanics of the sport aren't exactly the easiest to emulate within a virtual environment. So will MKO Games' SplitApple put a smile on the faces of archery buffs or make us quiver?
The old adage that "you get what you pay for" seems quite apropos in WiSTONE's attempt to blend city management simulation and turn-based strategy in a massively multiplayer online environment.
A tendril of black smoke belching from the bullet-riddled hide of my Hawker Hurricane, I swoop dangerously close to terra firma before jerking my iPod clockwise just before I hit the dirt. Soaring back upwards through the sky, I eviscerate a Jerry bomber with a hail of machine gun fire... Hell yeah! This truly is exhilarating, edge-of-your-seat stuff!