Spark it Up Review
Spark it Up is a unique rhythm game with interactive elements; you really have to try out to truly understand it. It's a well polished title but is the odd style a deal breaker?
First Look: LEGO Harry Potter
An owl just arrived at iFanzine's window with an intriguing press release from Warner Bros. That's right muggles, everybody's favorite boy wizard, Harry Potter, is being magicked onto iPhone by TT Games and LEGO just in time to coincide with the eagerly anticipated cinema release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
Shining Core Review
At first plagued by a game-crashing bug and unreviewable, Shining Core has benefited from an update that makes it run smoothly on third and fourth generation iDevices at least. Second generation iDevice users will still want to be cautious about picking this one up, and it's a shame because this Match 3/RPG genre mashup from ZLE Game, Inc., turned out to be surprisingly compelling.
WackyLands Boss Review
Cleverly subverting ye olde side-scrolling video game's traditional principles, WackyLands Boss by Chillingo and FairPlay Labs casts the player as the big, bad boss rather than yet another generic Mario or Sonic wannabe. It's a fantastic idea, and allows for some tremendously enjoyable, tongue-in-cheek action as you stomp through levels smiting the good guys, chowing down on princesses, and generally being a butt ugly menace to society.
DreamWorks Megamind Review
Trend-bucking bunch that they are, iPhone game developers seem determined to discredit the comforting truism that any title based on a film license is pretty much guaranteed to suck. Hard. I mean Chillingo's Predators actually had the gall to be bloody brilliant, while Glu made a damn fine job of How to Train Your Dragon. Thankfully Megamind, with its uninspired gameplay, horrendous controls, ugly visuals, and bland level design, is here to put the world to rights. Phew.
Shoot To Kill Review
Shoot to Kill: Addictive as Hell, a hot new collaboration by Vivid Games and Tower Studios, is an arcade-y actioner set in the fiery depths of Hades. The game has been unleashed on the App Store in various shapes and sizes - a coin-up style freemium version, a HD freemium version etc, etc - but, if you ask me, Addictive as Hell is the best and most fully featured experience of the lot, boasting, as it does, all 30 levels of shoot 'em up thrills, Game Center achievements, and 6 different modes from the off.
MMA Review
Brandishing three different gameplay options - Career, Exhibition, and Challenges, the ability to totally customize your fighter, and a unique control scheme, EA Mobile's MMA delivers a remarkably fully featured fighting game on iPhone!
Road to Emerald Review
If you had the chance to give "The Wizard of Oz" a makeover in videogame form, what would you do? For ImageCircus, an Osaka-based visual novel publisher, the obvious answer was to replace Dorothy's iconic anthropomorphic companions with handsome bishounen and turn the whole thing into a dating sim. Whether you find the setup strangely intriguing or just plain sacrilegious, one thing's for sure: after a trip down the "Road to Emerald" you'll never look at L. Frank Baum's classic the same way again!
Infinity Blade Trailer
One word: WOW! Via GameTrailers.com, Epic Games and Chair Entertainment have unveiled a gorgeous new trailer for their eagerly anticipated action-RPG cum sword fighting game, Infinity Blade. Featuring graphics so sharp you could have someone's eye out with them, this title looks set to be something of a game-changer when it arrives on iDevices this Holiday season!
Free Games Round-up 2
Cheapskates rejoice, because iFanzine have selected three new freebies that'll truly knock your socks off! In this installment of the free games round-up, we review and rate Belly & Brain, Gun Bros and the newly updated Zombie Farm!