![]() Star Front: Collision is probably the best of the lot, blending casual RTS warfare gameplay with Gameloft’s usual visual spit ‘n’ polish. Perhaps it’s the play style – while we may all do it, the idea of sitting down and gaming for hours on a phone isn’t necessarily all that attractive. The iPhone’s touchscreen may seem like the perfect interface for real time strategy games like Command and Conquer, but relatively few have made it big on the App Store. Steel your nerves before taking on this one, but if you can hack it, Squareball is rather brilliant. You drag your finger across the screen to control the progress of a continually-bouncing ball through a maze chock full of voids. It’s devilishly hard – like games used to be, not like the standards of these cotton wool-clad times. It’s a simple bouncy action-platform-puzzler, but will test your patience to its limits. Simultaneously retro-looking and flashy, Squareball’s blocky graphics give it a very definite style. With a dynamic physics model where the monkeys affect the structure as well as good old gravity, this game is endlessly engaging and utterly cheerful, even as it frustrates. You construct bamboo bridges across levels to guide monkeys to safety – and hopefully nab them each a banana on the way. Long before critical darling World of Goo hit the iPad, let alone the iPhone, Gamehouse’s Tiki Towers was supplying a similar flavour of gameplay. Wolfenstein RPG is perhaps the pinnacle of the series, packing-in more humour than the more serious Doom RPG games. It was a tremendous success, offering more hours of gameplay than the original shooter, and a more robust storyline. This was back in 2005 too, so we’re talking dinky 2in screens, not iPhone-sized ones. The Wolfenstein and Doom “RPG” series is what was spawned when clever mobile game developers tried to cram the fun and tension of the 1993 first-person shooter Doom into a mobile phone. Every now and then it drops to just a handful of pennies in one of Gameloft’s (in)famous sales too. If you’re after a hardcore weirdy beardy roleplaying game, you’re looking in the wrong place, but if you want action and fun rather than old-school point-based character progression this is a must-download. It’s a swords ‘n’ spells adventure, rammed full of fantasy clichés and the publisher’s usual high-grade polish. ![]() Amen.ĭungeon Hunter 2 is Gamloft’s take on PC classics like Dungeon Siege and Diablo. The game that popularised the hand-drawn iPhone game trend, making room for great games like Parachute Panic, Doodle Jump is no longer the king of the App Store, but we remember it fondly still. Before buses and trains were filled with people flinging birds into pigs, there were buses and trains full of people turning their iPhone left and right to direct a weird little hand-drawn alien as he jumped up between clouds.
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