Ok so I admit I finally got sucked into one of these dumb farm games but come on when there is zombies involved I have a soft spot. basically take your typical farm game of growing crops and arranging your farm, and then throw in zombie farming. Awesome huh… Well even though there are some very fun aspects of this game there are a few glaring flaws that hopefully will iron themselves as the app matures, I understand the in app purchases to try and create a revenue, but let me attack other farms of visit neighbors farms. I would say download this game so you can see when new updates come out but don’t spend to much on brains its kind of dead ends fast(no pun intended). oh and one final though I really believe that the touch screen platform is the best for these farms games in fact its really peaked my curiosity about Simcity on the iPhone.
So when Mini sqaudron went on sale around Christmas of this last year I didn’t get it immediately, but eventually got some hours into it, and i must say this game is a very satisfying experience.
The Good-
Mini squadron really delivers if you are looking for a fast paced fun game, pop a squat and play for just a couple minutes of some awesome action packed all into this pocket sized game. With this the game features some awesome graphics lots of plane choices, and makes you want to keep playing and playing just to get all the unlockables.
The Bad
Mini Sqaudron doesn’t suffer from many faults besides those that come default with the iphone that fact that, maybe some of the graphics occasionally blur, but on my 2nd gen itouch things run great!.
OVERALL 9/10
With me recently getting an iTouch it’s been a priority with me to find the absolute best case I could so I ended up buying a few of the ones out there and seeing which one I liked the most. In the end I have liked different things about every single one and have yet to have a definite winner, so far I think the Speck candyshell has done it for me though. With this case featuring a neat way of protecting and absorbing shock while not making it entirely rubber thus causing it to get aggravating with the silly thing gets stuck in your pocket. With the candyshell the thin rubber is coated by a hard plastic shell thus giving you the convenience of plastic casing and the some of the protection of a full rubber case.
Pros: I’ve been very pleased with this case it seems like the times that my iTouch has slipped out of my pocket or been dropped like every device does its none worse for the wear. I have absolutely loved how this case is a perfect mix between stylishness and durability, this case is absolutely fun and coming in four colors it gives you a little bit of choice with the iTouch in the iPhone version it has even more colors. I have really loved how this case has never been in the way of me using the iTouch for practical purposes or gaming and has not made it bulky either basically a great case for you device.
Cons: The only gripe I have is that the lining on the bottom of the case is thin within a couple months of getting the case strip above the headphone jack and docking port has broken off leaving other parts of the case to start breaking. The only other minor thing is that the rubber on the edges darkens quickly and shows dust. I did not notice this at first, but it gradually has gotten darker and darker and you can tell this when I pop the iTouch out of the case and compare it to the rubber inside the case compared to the little bit showing on the edges it is obviously darker.
Overall rating 8.5/10
When it was announced that square was releasing Final Fantasy 1 on the iPhone I was skeptical, now to be honest the only version I’ve ever played was for the NES when I was like 8 years old but I loved the game. I decided to break down and spend the 9 bucks on a 20 year old game. But I’m here to say if you haven’t had the opportunity to play this in 20 years you barely remember the story and it is fun to relive the memories. I of course named all the characters after my family and the boys would watch me play. the updated graphics is a plesant upgrade and it seem there are few dungeons added that weren’t there in the original. My only complaint echos several of the reviews on the iPhone the movement controls or dpad is a little “wonky” I’m really hoping they fix it in an upgrade. Suggestion to anyone looking at this for a purchase, I love the game I don’t love the price, paying 9 bucks for a game just seems a bit like highway robbery on the iPhone. So pick it up on sale.
Well as of this last weekend my life is over I’ve deleted all my other iPhone apps an
d now I am investing large amounts of time in the new release from the makers of bejeweled. Plants Vs Zombies is an incredibly addicting game that got me hooked on the mac a few months back and now its in my pocket all the time. the game play is identical in fact the new way you control the layout feels like the game should have been made for the iPhone in the first place. Please if you haven’t played this one yet you have to give it a try and for 2.99 how could you say no.
I had my brother recommend this game on the iTouch to me soon after I received my iTouch and I agree this game really did seem like the iTouch’s long lost first person shooter. Even without the tactile control of D pad this game is functional. When I first started playing this game seemed impossible, but it was simply a hard learning curve on learning the controls the high customizing of your own personal character is great as well as this game being on the great plus+ network ensures continued updates and functionality of this game.
This game is highly customizable making it very appealing you create your own stratergy
The best news about Eliminate pro though is that it is completely free though that limits your plays a day without money to three times roughly every five or so hours and allowing you to buy more plays I feel that three times on this game really enough whenever I play it keeps the game fresh and some how it doesn’t get old when I pace myself like that. The game consists of you playing three other real people live online which is surprising for the Iphone in my opinion that it can connect so many devices at once well.
simple environments but surprisingly pretty for the iphone
The bad: Well you really can’t complain much about a free game, but the one thing I must mention is for anyone out there with an iPhone it is best to play eliminate in a hotspot because the 3g tends to be lag the game a bit for you in the experience of me testing things out.
overall 8.5/10
I don’t know if anyone else has felt the same, but let me start out by saying, I really like my iPod Touch. It is a great device and I feel like it really is useful for podcasts and tons of cool apps. I pretty much don’t go anywhere without which is surprising because I used to be very much in the Nintendo DS camp. However, I am starting to feel a little overloaded with games! I don’t go to the apps store looking for stuff anymore, I pick up the things that I hear about sales on and stuff that is recommended to me by people that I trust. Even with that, currently I have all 11 pages filled on my device plus another 4 pages of apps that I can’t see but are still on there. It is ridiculous! So now the real question is, what is the next step to help us wade through all the garbage on the App Store? Perhaps there needs to be some sort of certification process so it can present some small hurdle to get into the store. I mean really how many more picture viewers do we need? After that I need to figure out when I am going to find time to play some of this awesome stuff and get it off of my device. I’m open to suggestions!
So really I don’t know who is to blame for my last 2 days of headache either att or apple, but this weekend they released the MMS update from AT&T, being totally excited about this and immediately clicking the update button, Sure I’ll upgrade to version 3.1 sure I’ll take the new carrier setting, not realizing that 3.1 “nerfs” the ability to load custom profiles in phone. ie. the profile that unlocks the internet tethering of the iPhone so AT&T can control and charge you more for the service.
Well after a couple hours of battling it out with my phone, and swearing I didn’t need to jail break it I successfully reverted my firmware back to 3.0 and update my carrier setting with 5.5. Just a couple of useful apps I used, mind you these are all mac apps, first off just search for the 3.0 firmware its all over the net called. iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_restore.ipsw. This is the original 3.0 firmware, Second get a copy of iRevovery and libusb.pkg, I believe this is the 0.1.13 version.
Overall I am very disappointed with the process, its easy enough and I think I only slammed my head against the desk once. Come one AT&T/Apple, how can you justify removing features what every happened to being consumer friendly, when you purposely turn your amazing piece of hardware into a little tikes toys.
…Be still my heart, can it be true? Developer manomio, is currently working on getting a c64 emulation program running on the iPhone, now I’m not going to get to excited now I’m sure it will become very stripped down and apparently they are having to strip the Basic programming language out of the instruction set. As much fun as it would be to program in basic again, it won’t be a huge deal . Apperently they are trying to bring back some of the old games and track down copyright owners on other games so they can be released in their glory form.
I’m sorry I have been really out of the loop this week. With the move and starting the program for school things have been really busy and I haven’t had regular internet access. At this point I don’t know when it will be restored, but hopefully soon. That being said, stop reading this post and go download Dropship by Ngmoco if you are the owner of an iPod Touch or iPhone. Get this thing before it is no longer on sale or whatever it is. There is a few things that really make this game fun, first the controls. You turn your device on its side and if you touch the left half of the screen that becomes your home for your movement joystick. If you touch the right side of the screen that becomes your firing joystick. Now you blow things firing at you up and rescue humans. It is really a great game and when I saw that it was free I knew I needed to find the chance to write about it so that I could make sure all our readers got this thing while it is still on. Enjoy it, and feel free to respond to my post telling me what you thought of it.
