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Coin Soccer Review
Coin Soccer is a small scale sports game where you must flick coins around a soccer field to try and score a goal. You are in control of three coins and in order to advance must flick one coin between the other two. If your coin does not pass between the two other coins, then you are charged with an illegal move and it is the opponents turn. You control your coins by swiping the area behind them in order to flick them in the direction you want. You can flick your middle coin backwards…
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Cassandra's Journey: The Legacy of Nostradamus Review
Cassandra’s Journey is a picture hunt type game for the iPhone. You play as Cassandra, a young psychic who is trying to find her Grandmother's magic ring. You soon discover the ring belonged to Nostradamus and must search different levels for clues in order to find it. You control the game by tapping on various hidden objects once you have spotted them. They will then be crossed off your list once you have clicked on them and you continue on your hunt. You can also zoom in to ge…
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Oil Spill Review
Oil Spill is a puzzle game where players must try to clean up oil spills by dropping oil drops onto them in order to pop them. Once a bubble pops, it will shoot out other oil drops that will in turn pop more bubbles. You have a limited supply of oil drops, so you will have to chain together these explosions in order to clear the board and maximise your highscore. Players control which bubbles to pop by tapping on them. If they are full, they will pop and shoot out more oil drops, hope…
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Balls Away! Walls of Doom Review
Balls Away! is a physics based puzzle game where players must move a number of balls around a small maze to reach a goal area. The aim of the game is to earn as many points as you can by moving all the balls into the goal area as fast as possible. Players control their balls by tilting and rotating their iPhone around and using gravity. You must also hit switches and manoeuvre around spinners and other obstacles to reach your goal. The controls work well and make the game accessible t…
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Fozwot Review
Fozwot is a strange puzzle game where players take control of Fozwot, an odd looking insect who is also a butler. While Fozwot was serving under the Queen, all her eggs were stolen, and it’s now up to you to go out and retrieve them. In your arsenal you are able to spin webs to catch other insects and can launch a ball at them as well. You control Fozwot by using the iPhone's tilt capabilities and control his web and ball throwing by tapping on the screen. You can either use the…
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HauntedLCD Review
Haunted LCD is a throwback to the old Game and Watch style LCD games. Here, players must protect an old house from invading ghosts and other nasties by using your trusty flashlight. You must also recharge your flashlight once the battery life expires using the Super Charger 3000. Players control their man, by tapping on either side of the screen to move up and down. You destroy the attacking monsters by moving to their level and blocking them when move closer to the house. If a monste…
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RocketFuse Review
If you ever dreamed of attaching a series of rockets to an inanimate object to try and replicate a space shuttle launch, then today is your lucky day. Rocket Fuse has players helping a small spaceship escape from a series of caves by; you guessed it, loading it up with high powered rockets. This physics based game uses some simple controls and stands out because of it. Players place rockets on their ship by touching the iPhone screen. Players can tap the ship to place a series of smal…
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Jungle Gems Review
Jungle Gems is a bubble shooter type game where players must shoot gems into a large rotating grid of gems. Your goal is to shoot into the grid matching up four or more gems of the same colour to clear them away. You aim your gems by sliding your finger on the screen to adjust the angle and then tap the fire button on the gem itself to fire. As gems hit the grid, the entire grid will rotate allowing the player to access different sections throughout the game. While the controls are si…
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Skyscrapers™ Review
Like Building Build, SkyScrapers is the next addition to the reflex based tower creation genre. Players must build a series of sky scrapers in order to fill an empty cityscape by lining up a scrolling level of the building on top of the lower level. As the tower increases in size so does the speed of which the level scrolls, making for some challenging gameplay. Players place the levels once lined up by tapping on the iPhone screen. The levels must be placed within the blueprints of t…
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Alone at War Review
Alone at War is the latest in game clone released by Gameloft; this type copying Champion Archer and other bow defence genre games currently available. The game puts players in control of a lone archer as he must fight off invading enemies. Players will have to use their trusty bow, along with magic arrow power-ups, to defeat them and stay alive for as long as possible. The controls are simple and aiming is easy; players tap and hold the screen to charge up a shot, slide their finger…
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Blades of Fury Review
Blades of Fury is a fast paced 3D fighting game for the iPhone. Players choose a character and square off against a variety of deadly opponents in different areas. As with all fighting games, you must defeat your opponents using different attack combinations to see who the stronger fighter is. You can control your fighter by way of two control schemes. One uses a button interface to attack and block, while the other uses a touch sensitive scheme where players flick the screen to attac…
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Glow Jump Review
A Guttu Jump is an action game similar to Sheep Launcher where players must help Guttu bounce off clouds and jump as high as he can. You can get higher jumps off rainbow clouds and jetpack boosts whenever you like. Your goal is to jump as high as you can and increase your highscore. You control Guttu by tilting the iPhone to move him from side to side. You can also use his jetpacks by tapping on the screen to launch him upwards. But you only have three jetpack boosts available to you,…
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RC Heli - Indoor Racing Review
RC Heli is a racing game where players take control of an RC helicopter and fly around a series of tracks inside of a house. Players must navigate the different rooms and collect the various gold coins scattered around the house in order complete the race. Players control their RC helicopter by using two levers in the bottom corners of the screen. The left lever moves the helicopter up and down, while the right lever rotates the helicopter side to side and also changes the incline of…
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Krazy Kart Racing (US) Review
Krazy Kart Racing is a cart racer game similar to Crash Nitro Racing. The game has players choosing a character and racing against other opponents in a number of different race circuits. Players must navigate the tracks and also pick up power-ups to attacks and defend from other racers. The karts automatically accelerate but players will still need to steer, using the tilting motions of the iPhone and brake by tapping the brake button. As mentioned earlier, power-ups can be collected…
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Squareball Review
Imagine, if you would, the fast bouncing gameplay of Breakout mixed with the 80s style of arcade side-scrollers. Ladies and gentlemen I present to you, Squareball; a game where players must bounce a small ball through a maze, breaking all the coloured bricks they find along the way. As the ball constantly bounces up and down off of walls, players will need to time their map adjustment to progress. By swiping the iPhone screen at the right time, they will shift the entire map past the…
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