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Friday, August 28, 2009

Mixt



Love creating blobs of color and making it a game?? Mixt is for you.

With mixt you drag blobs of color together to make bigger blobs and then drag those blobs into the same color pots at the bottom. Its a lot of fun because you can test those color making skills and also practice them if you don't know them!

With this game you grab a blob of any color and the drag it to another blob make them one bigger blob. when you want to merge to blobs you must touch one blob drag it to another and make sure the lighting between the blobs is glowing on both of them. Make bigger blobs to fill up the pots at the bottom faster and score more points.Uh oh you made a brown blob, Just touch and drag across the blob to slice it in half and split into the primary colors! Sometimes you will need blue yellow or green. Sometimes orange green or purple. Sometimes turquoise and other mixes of mixes. When you make a big blob thats shaking like crazy then it means its going to break into two colors, but put it in a pot before it does and you will make that pot be able to take any color for a little bit. Fill 5 pots go onto the next level. Now if you put a color in the wrong pot then you will lose energy. Lose all of your energy it's game over, But you can gain energy back by filling pots and finishing levels. The bar at the bottom of the pots tell you how much the pot needs until its full. The bar at the top tells you how much energy you have, how many more pots you have left to fill in that level, level number, score and multiplier. Im still not sure how to get the multiplier .

There are 3 difficulties : easy medium and hard, Which can be changed in the options menu.The online score is becoming alot like a mix of tap tap revenge on line profile and feint i really like it. There are achievements for this game and online scores.

I like this game a lot but because there is only levels it gets kinda old after awhile. The simpleness of this game makes it really fun but is surprisingly pretty hard. The graphics are awesome and couldn't be changed for the better. sounds are cool and the music is sweet. 4.5 out of 5 stars!


Edit: I have now relized the other modes are every three levels there is a special level. Chop or pop? avalanche or speed round. Now that i realize that bravo!

Name:mixt

Price:1.99

Download here

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Frootrees


Frootrees is a fun game that is for all fans of froot!

In this game you must pick fruit and land it on the correct color on the ground. That may seem easy but as the tree grows more fruit faster it gets harder and more fun.



The fruit in frootrees is a Apple, Plum, Pear, and Orange. To play fruit trees you wait until the fruit is grown and then wait a little longer for the full grown fruit worth twice as much. You get 1 point for a normal grown fruit 2 points for extra grow and 1 for dead. But be careful wait too long and the dead fruit falls off. 3 dead fruit falls off and its game over.

When you start the game you only start with the apple and the plum. Get the apple to the red line on the bottom and the plum to the purple. As you go on you get the pear and the orange. Throw a fruit in the right area gain points, Miss and get it in the wrong spot then you lose points. Land them in the right area enough times and and you get 2x then 3x then 4x ect. Miss and its restarts the count.

Hit the home button during a game and it auto pauses. Want to pause during the game? Well hit the paw! When you pause there is no restart so to restart you must lose.

Think you have a high score? Post it to the online leader boards only takes seconds to create and instantly uploads the score.

Overall i give this app 4.5 out of 5 because its very well written but still could use a few more features and a restart or go to menu button. But it's a great game that i would recommend to anyone!

Name: frootrees
price: 0.99c
download here
Website

Hint throw the froot up instead of right into the ground for extra points!

Wallet whiz


This app is a great money keeping app in this economy.

To start off with its only 99c and very easy to use. With this app you can add a period which can repeat every month up to a year. Then you can spend or earn money in that month and it will tell you how much you have left or more likely how much you owe. The numbers at the bottom of the screen show of much you have to spend that much and how much you still have left. Blue numbers mean how much you have spent and that you still have money left if its red that means you gone x amount over the monthly budget. You create categories for each of the things that you do too.

One thing this app does not do is carry over so lets say i have $100 to spend each month and i only spend 50 that month the next month is still 100 dollars to spend. One way around that is to click on earn money then enter in $50 dollars.

There is a calendar veiw and a monthly category view. There is a help section which is a online site so to use the help you must be online. Don't want others to see your budget? Put a 4 digit pin on there. Mess up? Well you can't delete one thing but if you want you can delete everything.

I give this app a 4 out of 5 stars because it a great app but does not carry over and is kinda hard to get used to. Other then that its a great money aid in these times. Hey 99c is yesterdays 89c buy now!

Name Wallet whiz
Price: 99c
download here

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Parachute Panic



When you first play this game you think "AH what was i thinking? Why did i buy this!?" But as you play more and more it becomes more and more fun.

In parachute panic you must land little paratroopers on a aircraft carrier by opening their parachutes and flicking the screen in different directions to blow the wind. Sounds easy enough but when the ship starts moving and there are clouds, aliens and helicopters it can get hard. You must flick the screen in the direction of the way you want to the little guy to go but only if you do it near him will it move him. As the levels go and the ship starts moving across the screen so you will need to learn to aim!

There are two difficulties easy and normal. The difference is in easy everything is slower paced and also to take down a ufo or helicopter you must tap 3 times in easy and 5 times in normal. You have 5 lives in each of the difficulties. To lose a life you must miss the ship and get eaten by a shark, touch a cloud with a parachute open, be taken by a ufo, touch the helicopter or open their parachute to late.

There is also a cool little stats menu with how many times you've been eaten by a shark, fallen to far and some other stuff.

Overall i give this app 5 out of 5 stars because it rocks! The music the guy did is awesome and really funny. The graphics are awesome also! Very simple yet lots of fun and when you play you will never get bored!

Not sure? download the Lite version here

Name: Parachute panic
Price: .99c Its on sale!
Download Here

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Images

I will now be trying to add images from the app onto the review

Trak4


Trak4 is a puzzle game where you must spin tiles to arrange the
playable square the same as the picture on the side, all within the time limit. The picture on
the side is visible until a black covering comes over it, and then a
small circle moves around showing the picture.

To solve puzzles you must then touch a square a spin it to line it up
with the picture. Stuck? Hit the hint button to show the answer again.
When you think you have placed each square in the correct spot press
solve and see if your right. Each square must be in the correct
position or you will lose the game. If you get it right you get 500
points plus a time bonus and 500 more points if the hint was not used.

There are three levels easy, medium and hard. Then the are time limits
of 30 seconds 60 and 90. It is set at defult easy and 90 seconds.

The sounds are your normal win sounds and can get annoying. But turning down the sound helps with that! Edit: version 1.2 now has ipod playback!


I give this app a 3.5 out of 5 because the idea is great and the graphics are pretty good. This game has 86 levels but become very easy to play again. Fun for awhile this game is awesome, but once you've played the levels more then one time it gets kind of old.

Update 1.2 Edit: this game now has 125 puzzles making it much more fun! Statistics and a second tile set! with these new features I give it a 4.5 out of 5!

Try before you buy? Download the lite version here

Name: trak4
Price: .99c
Download here

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Buka


Buka is a game where you play as a little blue moon named "buka!" It talks like a baby moon in need of a mommy which is very cute. Your plan is to try to destroy the asteroids before they reach buka.

In buka there are two modes: 1. Journey, which is a story mode where you go through levels Each level comes with different and harder enemies. I find journey a lot of fun because of the cute stuff buka will say to you! 2. Survival, which is a endless attack of the asteroids. Survival is all enemies at all times not as in journey where there are slowing new enemies with each new level. It may sound like very few types of levels, but survival never ends and journey has quite a few levels.

When is comes to controls they are simple and easy, kinda. On the first journey level buka says tapping will destroy the enemies, but to destroy a asteroid you must touch and hold the screen to build up a blast and then let go near a enemy. To move buka you can either turn tilt on or leave it off, or move buka around by touching and dragging around the screen. When you drag you will continue to move in the direction you moved to even after you let go so be careful not to throw buka into a enemy! Controlling buka and destroying enemies can get hard when they're all over the screen. To pause the game you must double tap buka.

The graphics in the game are really quite nice and the sounds are also very well thought out. The options panel gives you the ability to turn down the music and the sound and also to turn on and off the tilt. When you play this game you may be wondering "where are the scores??" Well the scores can only be accessed while playing either of the modes, by pausing the game and clicking stats.

I give this app 4 out of 5 stars because of how simple it is, and how easy it is to learn the controls. Only i don't give it 5 because there is no real tutorial which really explains how to destroy and enemy Which you really need to know.

Want to try before you buy? download the lite version here

Name: Buka
Price: $1.99
Download here

Monday, August 17, 2009

Gpush

Do you have a gmail account and sometimes need to be notified the instant you get a email? Then gpush is the perfect app for you! All you have to do is 1.download the app 2. Say yes to get notifications 3. Put your gmail user name and password and hit enter and you're done! When your done with that you never need to open the app again! Everytime you get a message from gmail a bubble pops up like it does when you get a text. Click close open you email and you got the email! It's that easy!

Okay sounds great but does it work? Not all the time it really needs some work on the part. I sent myself emails and only got like 7 out of 10 very bad that way. And it doesn't really read the messages just the subject.

I give this app. 3 out of 5 starts because it's so easy and fast! But its not working most of the time! It's only 99c and this is one thing a lot of people need. So buy it now if you really want it.

Name: Gpush
Price: 99c
Download here

Zombieville USA.

Zombieville USA is a 2d side scrolling game like Mario. Only instead of jumping on people you kill zombies, earn money. Shelter in houses and gain ammo or cash. And upgrade your guns.

In zombieville the controlles are simple. Right and left arrows red for fire gun green for use melle wepon. And when you click on your weapon next to the health bar that's how you change your weapon and click doors to get in houses. May seem simple enough, but your wrong. While playing the first few levels of zombieville I thought boring and it's hard to gain money to buy weapons. But as I went higher and higher into the levels the zombies got harder and the money came in faster which makes it alot of fun.

There's one gameplay type, but there's 3 difficulties and you can have 1 life 3 or 5. At the end of each level you have the choice to buy a new weapon or upgrade it, get full health, and upgrade you melle weapon. All depending on if you have the money. Each level last maybe a minute to five all depends on how you play it. There is a pause and you can exit the app then come back later to start back up where you left off. There are different weapons you can buy such as a shotgun, machine gun, ak47 and more. That's all I have unlocked because I didn't know the update gave me 3 or 5 lives if I wanted. But from the screen shots it looks like you have a rocket launcher and flame thrower in there as well. There are multiple zombie types one is a normal zombie that strength increases every level and this white zombie that is basicly one shot kill but it runs really fast so you must be careful.

When you die if you have multiple lives choosen you start the level that you died on with the same stuff you started that level with. So try not to die!

There is no story to this I guess you can make it up on your own. For the people who do not like zombies whose heads explode and blood and brains go on the ground. Do not buy this app! Every single one of the zombie die that way!

There is a lite version to try it out!

Overall this app is great it's a fun game for anyone wanting to play a old stlye game with touch controls. I give it a 5 star rating because it's so easy to play yet so hard to finish the levels!

Name: zombieville USA.
Price: $1.99
Download here

New ratings system

I'm now going to rate with 5 stars instead of 1 out of 10

Dr. Death deluxe

With dr. Death deluxe you can have fun and tell how much your body is worth dead or alive (I'm worth about 1.7m Alive!) and how many days you got left. Now keep in mind that this is just a fun app that does a lot of approximation. This app also gives you some cool human body facts as your doing the quiz.

To find out these answers you answer simple multiple choice questions, such as do you smoke? 1. Like a train! 2. Occasionally 3. With a group 4. Never! They also have fun questions like: sex? Male, female, yes please! The only personal info you put in is your birthday when you do the death clock watch quiz. But it resets every time you open the quiz.

All of the outcomes you can upload to facebook through a simple sign in and post. You must log in each time you open the app if you want to post it to your wall.

One of the problems is when you click a wrong answer to a question that you want you either restart or live woth it. Because it is so easy to click the wrong one.

Overall this app is great I give it a 4 out of five stars for being a fun to play and very simple!

Name: dr. Death deluxe
Price: .99c
Download here: at the iTunes store!

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Photoscatter

PhotoScatter

Photoscatter is a application that allows you too upload a picture to facebook, twitter, flicker, photobucket, picasa, and shutterfly all at the click of one button. Or just one or two at a time!

Photoscatter allows you to take a photo then post or choose any saved photo to up load. It doesn't take a long time to upload either it's really surprising how fast! One of the things that I don't like about this app is it take quite awhile for you to get all your accounts set up, but once you do your good to go!

When uploading a photo you can choose to add a description or not. You can also save a photo that you take with your camera to your photo roll. I don't why because you already do save it...

One of the cons is you can only upload one photo at a time. Uploading to facebook creates a new album called photoscatter photos so why can't you upload more then one?

But overall this app is great to upload pictures to your favorite picture sharing sites in just a couple clicks. And the developer said he will be adding more site to come. So buy it now while it's on sale to get the free updates later! I give it a 7 out of 10

Name: Photoscatter
Price: .99c (50% off sale for only a limited time!)
Download link: iTunes

Ps right now Ryan is holding a HUGE contest! Go check it out at contest link!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

The game of life: classic edition

This game is 100% the same game as the bored game so there really isn't much to reveiw. But here it goes.

In life the app you can play by your self against up to 3 other computers or up or three other friends. You got your colored cars and you choose a person to go along with your car so you know who's turn it is. You start the game the same way in the board game. The game is the same places, same jobs and same everything else.

May sound boring but if you love this game as a bored game ( or you lose the peices to easily). Then paying the $5 on here is a great price! It's kinda hard to tell what you have, it took me a minute to figure out how to start. You can spin the wheel like you normally would, you can choose to use certin cards or not and you can choose if you would like to go in different directions.

Not really sure how to review this that is why it is so short. But I just have to say if you love this game it so worth the five dollars. I give a 9 out of 10 for a good app of a bored game!

Name: The game of life: Classic edition
Price: $4.99
Download Here

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Globall

Globall a game of glowing balls and global high scores!

Just to start of the name is a play on words, Glow ball and global. This game is were you try and make the highest score in the world, country, start ect. Either by level or by total score.

In glow ball you play useing tilting to move your glowing ball (hints the glow ball part of the name) and are trying to hit colored squares to make points. And if you finish within the time you get bonus points!

You have lives in this game or balls. You start with three and can earn more by collecting 25 coins which are in most levels. Each extra life at the end of the level is 500 points which is nice if you have 5 or 6. If you lose all your lives you must restart the level.

You can pick up multipliers for one color at a time, and each multiplier adds by one 1x so you pick up a 2x the next will be 3x and so on and so forth. Now let's say you pick up a green 2x then a pink 2x it's then 2x for the pink and you lose the green 2x and have to start with 2x again for green.

Then there are weapons or power ups. Each power up has a different advantage one is the lighting which get most of the color squares within two sqaures of each square. There is a chainsaw which can go thru the squares and a few others.

The are multiple enemies in this game and the way there are multiple ways to defeat them. Some are invincible now way to beat them (unmoving spike balls). Then there are other moving enemies which can be defeated by running into them and shaking your device in time then losing your 2x ( or 3x or 4x...) or by using your power up to run right thru them and gain points.. If you don't have a power up or multiplier you lose a life. There is also a snake like thing with a claw as a head which stretches out and gives you the ability to hit one of it's white circles to kill it and gain 1,000 points, but don't hit the head or you WILL lose a life!

There is some puzzle to this were you must open doors, dodge flame things and such. There are also bouncy balls that you must be aware of, they don't hurt you but could bounce you into something that could!

Globall has a nice score system that uses your location to see how well you are doing in score area! It tells you you are #12345 and have the best score in 1234 feet (or if it is larger then a mile then it says 3 miles) you can not have it submit to high scores also if you would like. There are 52 levels in globall right now and most likely there will be more!

Overall this app has nice clean graphics and quite a few levels so I give this app a 8.5 out of 10. I would give a 10 if there were some chalenge levels or a chalenge mode. But if you want a new iPod touch game that lots of fun choose this!

(You can try out the lite version before you buy. just search for globall lite!)

Name: globall
Price: $2.99
Download here: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=316531130&mt=8

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Ragdoll Blaster - A Physics Puzzler

Ragdoll blaster

Ragdoll blaster is a fun puzzle game of pysics and ragdoll fun.

In ragdoll blaster you shoot a ragdoll out of a cannon and try to hit a target, sometimes that requires thinking, and your trying to do this in the least amout of shots. You fire by pushing down on the screen and then aiming. Aiming consists of how far away from the cannon you are and in which direction. Some objects move, some don't, some open and close doors and still others start a gear like movment. Some of the levels you have one chance before you press restart others unlimited shots.

In the menu you can turn off the sounds or the music. You can skip up too five levels at a time. Meaning if you finish level one you can now skip of you would like and go to six, but you must beat 6 in order to go to 11. (It's kinda hard to write out so please bear with me.) there are 106 levels if I am correct but he will be adding more in new updates!

Overall this app is very simple yet very hard. Bored and want to do a puzzle with pysics? This app is for you. I give ragdoll blaster a 7 out of 10 because it could have more levels and different kinds such as challenge, multiplayer or online high scores, but a great app for people who love ragdolls and physics puzzles.

Name: Ragdoll Blaster - A Physics Puzzler
Price: $1.99
Download here: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=315282163&mt=8

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