Eschewing the likes of Openfeint and Game Center, Jelly Wars employs Star Arcade Oy's very own social gaming platform to pit iOS, Android, and Symbian gamers from across the globe against each other in quirky turn-based battles...
Watch out -- this one might blow your fingers off! Well, that's what some of the promotional material for "Ninja Sniper" suggests, but rest assured that sufficient work went into the translation of what little text lies inside. If you're a twitch shooter fan and always wanted to be a ninja, this one might be right up your alley!
The whole hand-drawn graphics gimmick has been done a thousand times before on iOS, yet something about Morten Andersen's App Store debut, Cute Shoot!, still managed to pique this doodle-weary reviewer's interest. Yeah, you guessed it, it was the game's utterly crazy plot which revolves around a badass kitty armed with a machine gun mowing down hordes of monsters...
Ok, so normally I would refrain from giving an upcoming game anything even approaching a definite appraisal until the end product has been released onto the App Store, but having put a beta build of Chris Johns' Run Fox Run through its paces, I'm just gonna come out and say it: barring any major last-minute cock-ups, this slick little side-scroller has smash-hit written all over it!
If you sat down with me for a game design chat, I'd probably recommend two ideas be crossed right off the list of possibilities: anything too reminiscent of "Minesweeper," and zombies. However, Frogtoss Games had an extraordinary insight -- what about combining the two? It turns out that the result is kind of awesome.
You'd better not get between this mighty little mouse and his cheese, because he sure packs a punch! Eric Karl's iOS debut is sure to bounce straight into the hearts of iOS gamers who could go for a healthy dose of fun physics action.