Angry Birds
Angry Birds is Finland’s greatest contribution to the world after Mika Hakkinen and Nokia. Once again, pigs are the subject of everyone’s hatred, and in this particular case, at the receiving end of serious punishment from some cheesed-off birds. We learn from the game’s introduction sequence that the evil pigs have stolen the eggs of the birds in question, making them angry. What follows is a series of physics puzzle-based levels in which the player has to take down said pigs who seem to be hiding out in structures made of various materials using a variety of birds and a slingshot. Each level has a predetermined set of birds available for use with a simple objective: take down all the pigs with the birds you have. The game sports a simple control system (drag to use the slingshot, touch to unleash special abilities) that makes superb use of the touch-screen. The game is said to have been downloaded nearly 40 million times from the App Store, so grab it now if you haven’t already.
Skull Pogo
Got a bizarre sense of humour? Then Skull Pogo is the game for you. Taking advantage of the tilt functions present in Apple’s devices, Skull Pogo sees the player’s pogo-riding skull chain together destructive combos by jumping on vampire pigs, bats and sometimes, cattle. There are power-ups aplenty as well that grant damage and combo bonuses. For instance, you can cause slash damage by picking up the fireball power-up or increase the combo time-limit with the ‘ice’ power-up. The ‘heavy’ power-up causes the player to descend faster and harder on the unsuspecting vampire pigs and bats. There are five progressively more difficult levels in the game’s arcade mode — each more fun than the other thanks to more baddies to rain pogo stick-death on. Skull Pogo is a hugely addictive game that is also tremendously satisfying and frustrating. But that’s what makes it great. A must-play for soundtrack alone.
GTA: Chinatown Wars
Released at the start of last year, GTA: Chinatown Wars was one of the few ‘serious’ games for the iOS platform. First making its appearance on the Nintendo DS, Chinatown Wars was, in true GTA tradition, funny, violent, intuitive and preposterously addictive. It was the best game on DS in the year of its release in 2009 and arguably the best ‘hardcore’ game last year on iOS. Since both the iPhone/iPod Touch and DS sport touchscreens, several mini-games that were missing from the PSP version returned with a tweak or two. The iOS version also sports a custom radio station that makes use of the music in your iPod music library while also adding the PSP-exclusive radio stations that were absent in the DS version. An iPad version of Chinatown wars was also released to glowing reviews. If you’re an old-school GTA nut, there’s no excuse for not playing Chinatown Wars.
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (Director’s Cut)
Widely regarded as one of the greatest point-and-click adventure games of its generation, Broken Sword: SOTT made its way to the Nintendo Wii and iOS platforms last year in an all new avatar, dubbed ‘Director’s Cut’. The ‘director’s cut’ version is a great port of the original with some added features such as multiple solutions to puzzles and a co-operative mode for two players. Adventure games seem to be getting more popular on Apple’s touch devices first with LucasArts’ Monkey Island games and now with Broken Sword, redefining the term ‘point-and-click’. Honestly, there isn’t a genre better suited to the touchscreen interface sported by the iPhone and iPod Touch, and Broken Sword makes terrific use of it. The game’s story is brilliant and the writing top-class — don’t miss it.
Fruit Ninja
Fruit Ninja is the ultimate solution for frustration and restlessness. There’s nothing better on which to unleash your anger and/or bust stress than cutting up virtual fruit using an invisible ninja blade. Fruit is thrown onto the screen by an invisible force and its your job to teach these badly behaved fruit a lesson or hundred by slicing them up either individually and waiting for them to bunch up and then combo-slice the crap out of them, all while avoiding bombs of course — you know, since bombs tend to hang out with fruit a lot these days. For the non-violent lot, Fruit Ninja also has a ‘Zen’ mode which eliminates bombs from the equation, but who wants that? The game is on sale for $0.99, and honestly, I can’t think of a better way to spend fifty bucks.
Source: expressbuzz.com
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