As you may, or may not know I play a ton of games, and write the occasional review for the odd blog site or two, I noticed a lot of you are now getting iPhones, let me run you down my top 10 games which are all worth picking up!
1) Game Dev Story – A great micro sim game where you run your own little game development studio, easy to understand, difficult to master. Reminds me a lot of a simplified version of Theme Hospital.
2) Secret of Monkey Island 1 and 2 – Albiet two games are mentioned, they are both retro classics given the next generation treatments, many gamers are unaware of these two titles, yet they are seminal in the history of the Lucas Art franchise, they created legends like Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer (who went on to eventually make titles like Grim Fandango and Brutal Legend) These point and click masterpieces need to be seen and enjoyed by all, admittedly they are a million times better on their native format (the PC/Amiga) but they are equally enjoyable on the smaller formats, especially now with added Dominic Armato (Voices Guybrush Threepwood)
3) Infinity Blade – This game is more of a benchmark of what the iPhone is actually capable of, but it is fucking impressive, the animations are amazing for such a relatively underpowered phone (in comparison to the HTC Desire) This is more a window showing what the future will look like.
4) Plants Vs Zombies – Simple concept, you need to stop the Zombies getting to your house by using different plants and strategies, tower defence at it’s finest.
5) RageHD – Again 1 part game, 1 part amazing graphics, made by the same innovators behind the doom franchise, this on rails shooter is great fun in small doses, in vain similar to house of the dead.
6) Angry Birds – You fire birds into a castle to destroy the enemies, again simplistic in design but perfect for pick up and go gaming. I can see the franchise being run into the ground now that EA own the rights to it, but Angry Birds is worth 59p of anyones money!
7) Doodle Jump, Simple platforming game, where you need to get to the highest point you can without falling and/or dying, pick up and play style which features tilt controls.
8 ) Chaos Rings – Quite possibly one of the most expensive games on the phone (pre sale prices have it listed @ £7) It’s made by the same team that made Final Fantasy, so expect epic storytelling, intuitive combat and vast sections of your life disappearing. This game features some high production values which can be seen on any YouTube video of the gameplay featured.
9) Football Manager – A condensed down version of the PC top seller, stupidly addictive football strategy simulator which will leave you wondering where those 7 hours went, or why you have ended up in Cardiff.
10) Flick Kick Football, simplistic game where you (yeah you got it!) flick the football! again simplistic in its approach, and playable by practically everyone including your gran!
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