City Of Secrets is a fabulous new iPad game, absolutely worth the $5 fee; very entertaining dialog and artwork, interesting puzzles and an ongoing background plot to keep you interested. You play sometimes as Moley (a Mole!) and sometimes as his friend Rex (a dog); after an early sequence “up top” you descend to a [...]
Unfortunately, iDOS was a short-lived visitor to the App store, but (thanks Josh) I did grab a copy … iDOS is a quite full featured DOS emulator running on iPad, good enough in fact that someone got Windows 3.1 running within it! I didn’t go that far, but I did get Lemmings The Tribes running [...]
Puzzle Agent HD is an amusing game I found recently – it’s not so much a puzzle game as a cartoon movie with some puzzle interactions; much of the game involves watching and listening to short “movie” sequences where our hero, Tethers, interacts with other characters: The actual puzzles, at least as far as I’ve [...]
The iPad is an amazing computer, easy to use and accessible to almost everyone – but of course it’s not the first, and one of the most popular early computers in England where I grew up was the ZX Spectrum. When I bought one, it was specifically to play two games: Atic Atac, and Manic [...]
Finally! Space Inversion is a good Space Invaders game for the iPad, semi-retro graphics, good sounds, and nice improvements like optional turbo play mode letting you fire more than one shot at a time! Good value too – get it!
Not a great game, but perhaps you’ll think it’s worth the $0.99 it costs … Stone’s Adventure did not start well; after the loading screen above, I selected “Play” and the display went blank – and stayed blank for the minute or more that I waited. I thought I’d been sold something useless, but discovered [...]
Unlike disappointing Dreamscape, the Giana Sisters HD game is fabulous and totally deserving a “Best” rating! The game has multiple levels to challenge you, laid out on a map which requires progress level-by-level, but happily once you’ve completed a level even if you lose your lives, you can start with more lives and full access [...]
I like platform games (I grew up on them on my ZX Spectrum in the 1980s!), and so I purchased Dreamscape HD recently as it looked like a great “old school” platform game: Well, I don’t like it at all! The game attempts to be good, offering three different ways to control – traditional “touch [...]
I’ve always loved Wallace & Gromit all the way back to A Grand Day Out, and now there’s an excellent Wallace & Gromit movie on the iPad: The Last Resort: But wait! It’s not a movie, it’s a game with lots of movie sequences; or it’s a movie that you direct by game play – [...]
Doodle Galaxies is less fun than it should be! First, it’s “made with GameSalad” – this means it’s much too slow to load! Apart from that, the graphics are cute but game control is minimal – you slide left/right to control your ship, but shooting is automatic and continuous so no skill there; just the [...]
I like this version of Klondike Solitaire, it animates nicely and has a few nice touches like optional “auto card placement”; a good card game to while away a few minutes (though it doesn’t seem that great at shuffling – like me!): I had bought Solitaire Favorites a few months ago, but it just didn’t [...]
I tried Oil Tycoon 2 tonight, but it didn’t much impress. Rather a waste of iPad screen when for example looking at the help tutorial: No animation in the graphics either, all disappointingly static: And a screen icon / name that just looks strange! Yes, it’s free … but it’s still disappointing, not up to [...]
Catch a few iPhone games from Electronic Arts, reduced to $0.99 for a short while; I decided to try Game of Life, and it’s an amusing way to pass the time … Sadly, EA is not putting any iPad games on sale – and Game of Life would not switch to “2x” display so I [...]
The Twins is a breakout style block busting game with a twist, that turns out to be a big negative! The $0.99 App looks good enough initially with a nice loading screen that animates if you wait a while: As you see, the game offers a two player mode – each player has their own [...]
I had wondered about buying the full App, and then Robber Bomber HD Lite became available so I tried it today – and saved myself some money: this game is awful! You will see this tutorial screen a lot, since it displays it at every start! The tutorial is not even much use, it could [...]
I found another excellent fun game to play on my iPad: Marblenauts which recently appeared at a perfectly reasonable $0.99 and runs on both the iPhone and iPad! In the game, from Crescent Flare, you simply have to destroy blocks so that the Marblenauts can get to their appropriate colored exit squares – easy, no?! [...]
Unless you have ultimate patience, steer clear of this App! The loading screen announces “made with GameSalad”; not so interesting but you stare at it for about TEN SECONDS! This is not a big complicated game, but it’s slow to load and slow to switch from screen to screen; no doubt this slowness is part [...]
Although there are Flash limitations on the iPad, Google successfully created a Pacman game that works fine on the iPad as well as on other targets, for the games 30th anniversary! iMac plays Google Pacman (keyboard arrow keys to move): iPad plays Google Pacman (touch to a side of Pacman to move): Hopefully Google will [...]
I’m still looking for a good, simple, Space Invaders type game. But while Space Strike looks good, it just doesn’t play very well. Space Strike has some lovely graphics, with multi-colored aliens hovering left/right above you, and pretty backgrounds – but notice that line down the left edge with the red blob on it … [...]
I really hate this “game“! It’s the first time I would like my money back – thankfully, it was on sale for just $0.99, but I still feel I wasted my money. I hardly feel right calling it a game; basically your dragon character travels left to right at faster and faster speed (or the [...]
Further to my initial thoughts about Herod’s lost tomb for iPad, I’ll conclude by saying that the game is too short / easy! I’ve finished already … There’s only six “chapters” (areas) to play, and each has between 12 and 36 items to find; it doesn’t take long to finish them all – especially considering [...]
I’ve found a way to save money on my iPad! Tap “spin” lots of times, instead of dumping coins into a real slot machine Fruity Slots Deluxe from Mobile Amusements is an attractive slot machine simulator that offers lots of chances to win! As well as being a fun way to waste a bit of [...]
I’m thrilled that my favorite iPhone puzzle game, Marple, has been updated for the iPad with full size crisp graphics and the same challenging game play (the iPhone version was 2x playable, but this is much better!) The game has a good descriptive help section, but it’s best really to play a level while using [...]
Down the gopher hole HD could be a psychedelic trip down a “gopher hole” tunnel, tilting left, right, up, down to avoid various nasty obstacles and reach the end of the tunnel before the clock runs out! It’s really quite a simple game, with too short tunnels, too few tunnel choices (only two), and not [...]
I’m a fan of hidden object games – nothing too challenging, and sometimes you learn too! Herod’s lost tomb for iPad from National Geographic is one of those games, and at a reasonable price too. The game loads up with a number of objects to find in various locations; as you clear each location you’re [...]
This game doesn’t quite seem to know what it’s called – Go Ladybug Go is the loading screen name, but the App is called LadyBugfree and in the App store it’s called Buggies HD free; whatever it’s called, it’s free, quite cute, but too much of a pain for me to keep playing! When the [...]
I wanted to like God Finger HD – and maybe I would if I was in to all the “online / social” aspects, but … I’m not! So, it’s not for me. First, you *have* to create an account before you can even check out the game. Second, there’s adverts The game itself could be [...]
Apparently Stickbolt is “extremely addicting” – but it lasted only a few seconds on my iPad! It was free to download for a while (thanks AppShopper), but it was awful enough to immediately get deleted! Maybe it’s a great game, but I couldn’t get past the poor quality user experience – clearly it’s been quickly [...]
If you like Soosiz (which I do!), you might like iBlast Moki HD too – it’s not frantic at all, and somewhat challenging; not as cute as Soosiz, but still quite entertaining … When you start the game, there’s a set of islands to play; within each island there’s a set of similarly styled levels; [...]
Yes, it’s another iPad game – and once again it’s a game that looks gorgeous and doesn’t require too much thinking! My type of game, and I find such games to be a perfect alignment on the iPad, where I want to pick up and play for a while – but not too long (for [...]
Having mentioned a few Mahjong Apps for the iPad, I’ll now mention my current favorite, Mahjong Artifacts: Chapter 2 HD from G5 Entertainment; the game starts nicely with well designed tiles and a different layout for each level: But this game offers a little more than traditional Mahjong, playing the “quest” version gives a little [...]
There’s a heap of different Mahjong games for the iPad already! A game I enjoy, as it doesn’t take too much time to play a level, and can be quite satisfying and entertaining. My first Mahjong App was iMahjong HD, now called iMahjong 2 free – it’s free, but it’s hardly worth it! I don’t [...]
Soosiz is another wonderful iPad game – and my preferred “platformer” game style. Hardly much like an old-school platform game, but still of the “run around, collect things” genre. Much cuter though! In the game, you control the main character as he(?) travels through lands collecting friends and coins, and largely disobeying the traditional laws [...]
One thing I really found my iPhone too small for, was playing games; the iPad is perfect for this, with a bigger screen but all the ease of use of the iPhone … a favourite game in my first week of iPad ownership is Cash Cow Deluxe: The simple object of the game is to [...]
