Lest we forget Madfinger's Shadowgun isn't the only incredible looking Unity3D-powered third-person shooter gearing up to take the App Store by storm, Lab Rats Studio have just unveiled an incendiary new gameplay trailer for M.U.S.E..
Well, color us impressed! This is the kind of arcade experience we could use a lot more of on iOS -- even if long-time fans of sidescrolling shoot-em-ups are liable to find it a little on the easy side.
If you're looking for a hack-and-slash dungeon crawler at a rock bottom price, The Relic has probably caught your eye already. However, we advise approaching this title with caution at present, as it still has much in common with an undercooked meal.
Once played only in web browsers, the Cave of Wonders-developed Civilizations Wars has been ported to the iOS courtesy of Alcomi and Chillingo -- and boy, does it prove how perfect a marriage of the Real-Time Strategy genre and the iOS can be! A few crazy quirks keep it from being a perfect experience, but it packs so much high quality gameplay into such a low price that one can hardly complain.
Lesson to game devs: if you've got a really interesting premise, try to make your game as accessible to as many players as possible. In one of the more bizarre twists in iPhone gaming history, My Kingdom takes a winning concept and does precisely the opposite. It offers plenty of depth for a free game, but only if your lifestyle meets strict requirements.