Friday Five: June 11th, 2010
Aaaand…we’re back! Phew. Is it Friday already? Well, here are our weekly five app selections, culled from recent App Store releases. We’ve got plenty of new stuff this week, from feed readers to music games, so let’s get started!
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero was demo’d at the WWDC keynote earlier this week, and made its official App [...]
Guitar Hero
Developer: Activision
Price: $2.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 3G, iPad
Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.35 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 2.45 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3.15 out of 5 stars
Rating: 2.6 out of 5 stars
Guitar Hero has made its long overdue appearance on the iPhone after having [...]
Favorite 4: Apps for the World Cup!
It’s been 4 long years since Italy gloriously hoisted the FIFA World Cup and proclaimed themselves the kings of soccer (football, futbol, calcio, etc.). There’s a deep field of 32 teams who will be vying for the 2010 crown and, while you can never count out old stalwarts like Brazil, Italy, and Germany, many [...]
Fortis
Developer: Encore Games
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad, iPhone 3G
Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.55 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.1 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 4.05 out of 5 stars
Rating: 3.95 out of 5 stars
The twin-stick shooter has become one of the preeminent genres on the [...]
Ludo Board Game for iPad Review
Developer: SIS SOFTWARE
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad
Graphics / Sound Rating: 2.25 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 2.25 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 1.75 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 2.31 out of 5 stars
If you’re of a certain age (an age which will remain unstated, for [...]
Apple Keynote Starting Soon — Where to Read About It Live
While I’ll be attending the keynote on Monday morning, at the “center of the app universe”, but we’re not going to live blog it. We’ve tried to give you live coverage of the keynotes in the past, but lets face it, others do it so much better. They take a team and just kick [...]
SimplyTweet Review
Developer: MotionObj
Price: $4.99
Version Reviewed: 3.1.1
iPhone Integration Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4.08 out of 5 stars
Twitter users tend to be a fairly hardcore bunch, especially when it comes to what they expect from a mobile Twitter app. [...]
Assault Squadron Review
Developer: The Binary Mill
Price: $2.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad, iPhone 3G
Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.65 out of 5 stars
When it comes to shoot ‘em ups, there are typically [...]
Stanza Updates for the iPad
Stanza’s Options and Reading Screen
Lexcycle, acquired last year by Amazon, released a version of their popular iPhone/iPod touch eReader Stanza for the iPad last week. Stanza was my eReader of choice on my iPhone and I’m thrilled it’s finally been ported to the iPad. It’s a terrific reader that’s compatible with a wide [...]
Despicable Me: Minion Mania Lite Released Ahead of Full Version
Movie-based games are not known for being high quality products due to the quick cash-in nature of the projects. However, Namco and Anino Games are trying to defy these expectations with Despicable Me: Minion Mania, a puzzle/platformer based on the upcoming animated move Despicable Me. The full game will not release until June 28th, 12 [...]
iOS4 (iPhone OS 4) is Coming: New Features Galore!
Steve Jobs has spoken, and the fourth iteration of the iPhone OS is finally here. Except it’s no longer the “iPhone OS.” Instead it’s called, succinctly enough, iOS4.
Naturally, iOS4 brings more than just a name change. There’s a slew of new stuff that you can do with iOS4, and we’re going to explore most of [...]
Skate It In-Depth Review
Developer: Electronic Arts, Inc.
Price: $6.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.70
Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
I should have completed this review weeks ago, but I missed my deadline: and with [...]
Maxi Dice for iPad Review
Developer: KRISTANIX STUDIOS
Price: $4.99
Version Reviewed: 1.02
Device Reviewed On: iPad
Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.38 out of 5 stars
Can we designate a new sub-genre of iPad apps as stopgaps or placeholders? [...]
Highborn Review
Developer: Jet Set Games, Inc.
Price: $2.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Graphics / Sound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4.33 out of 5 stars
Highborn brings a lot to the turn-based strategy game genre with it’s solid game play, quirky humor, and overall enjoyable [...]
FaceFighter Gold Released – Free Today
FaceFighter Gold is a new version of the arcade fighting game FaceFighter from Appy Entertainment that we looked at back in June. This version, which is free today as part of Open Feint’s Free Game of the Day site, includes all of the previous in-app purchasable expanded features of the previous version. This version is [...]
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