Flesh and Games

OK, lets get the worst things about Kroll out of the way first. Its a bit repetitive and a hair difficult. That’s it. This game is probably one of the BEST action games in the App Store to date.

When you start up Kroll you have the choice to delve into the story by turning the pages of a book or you can just jump into the game. There are 3 difficulties-Normal, Hard, and Insane. The latter is unlockable. Kroll is a side-scrolling hack-n-slash game. You have 2 arrows to press (left and right) and 2 different attacks-A quick, weak, pushback attack and A slow, strong, knockback attack. Tapping the stronger attack “area” will get you a chain combo. Even on the “Normal” difficulty it is pretty hard. There are 2 meters to charge by using killing enemies and not dying. They will get you a special attack, triggered by shaking your device. There are a few chapters and within each chapter there are 3 levels. After the 3 levels is a Boss Fight. Witch is basically an impressive Quicktime-Event. The levels are very entertaining and the Boss Fights are very impressive to watch.

The BEST part of Kroll is it’s killer visuals. This game is the most visually impressive game on the App Store I’ve seen.
Kroll is great. Its a bit difficult, but it looks great and its fun to play (and look at). I don’t know if its worth $7.99 but, its AT LEAST worth the $.99 sale price now. Go buy it. Now. 95%

iHunt is in the App Store to let you unleash your inner Red-neck. This game is probably the best hunting experience on the iPhone. iHunt is a very boring game, like hunting.

There are 2 modes to play-Quick Hunt and Full Hunt. In both modes you are limited to a perch in the middle of a field with random, varying environments. In “Full Hunt” you start out with the bare essentials to hunting, a rifle and 3 clips of ammo. As you shoot down your prey you gain cash which in turn lets you buy a shotgun, bow, ammo, camo, scent eliminator, adjustable scope, and the majorly expensive radar. There are about 2 different animals you can hunt-Deer and Birds.Once you take out a deer, it’ll take about 1 minute for another to appear. Hence it is hard to get cash, therefore it takes much dedication to be getting the more expensive items from the store. In “Quick Hunt” you already have an adjustable scope and unlimited ammo. The better mechanic with this mode you can choose the environment (because some are eye melting to look at).

iHunt 3D is a game with a lot of content in some areas and the true(st) hunting experience on the iPhone. But the game is SO boring and requires a lot of dedication to hit the (awful) stride of the game. You can spend your $.99 on a better game in the App Store 75% (like Kroll(which is on sale)

Star Defense is not your normal tower dense game. Star Defense is a tower defense set on multiple planets/stars. There are 7 different stars in the campaign and 2 challenge stars. In the campaign you have to defend your base on that star from waves of enemies. So far i saw only 4 different enemies…..very disappointing. Their are facebook connect and twitter connectivities so you can challenge all your Iphone gaming buddies. The Iphone game developers ngmoco have made a social network on their games called plus+ that i have only seen in Star Defense. This game is priced at 5.99 right now. This is a great game for an ok price I really recommend it. 80%

There are a few crossword games in the iPhone App Store. One of them that stand out is a game called “wurdle”. In “wurdle” you are given a grid of letters-4×4 to 8×8 and the ability to change the play time to 1 minute to 5 minutes to unlimited. What you actually do to play is dragging your finger across letters of the grid to make words, longer the words, the more points get. If you are dissatisfied with the Dictionary wurdle is using, they have 2 to switch from. If you cannot find any words in the grid, just shake to shuffle the letters. Also, change the minimum word length(3 letters is set by default). You can make an account and set Local and Global Highscores. You can change Wallpaper and Tile images(not with your own pics sadly.). There is no incentive to keep playing this game after a few playthroughs, except it’s sheer addictivity. Overall wurdle is a great game with little replay value, but for the price of $2.99 and a good amount of addictivity, its a great game. 85%

Do you like Darts?! Do you like B[al]loons?! Do you like physics fun?! If yes, you’ll love Bloons. “Bloons” is a spin-off of one of the most popular Tower Defence games on the internet. The object of “Bloons” is to pop a predetermined amount of Balloons with a set amount of darts. There are multiple Power-Ups such as weights that will fall onto ballons below them when hit and “Tri-Shot” darts. Bloons is one of those games you can play on a short notice or spend an hour playing. Some of the “puzzles” are somewhat frustrating, but the game is an overall enjoyment. With 150 levels and a price of $2.99 this makes a great app, despite the addicting frustration. 85%

Stackus is an APP for the iPod touch and iPhone. If you have ever heard of Super Stacker for the PC, this game is a lot like that. There are differences though. There are no faces on these blocks and there is no direct way of doing it. Now, if you haven’t heard of Super Stacker or stackus it is a game where you must get all of the objects from one side to the other. But it gets difficult because there are four basic objects square, triangle, circle, and rectangle. The darker the shade of color the darker they are. The actual color makes no difference. The game gets a bit tricky when you have to get objects from the bottom so everything starts falling. The physics of the game are somewhat realistic. Overall I find this game worth the price of $.99. 90%

Tweet deck is not your basic twitter app. Tweetdeck is a very simple/deep twitter app. In Tweetdeck you can have multiple twitter accounts, photo upload to twitpic or yfrog, trend search, replies, direct messages, favorites, user group, and my personal favorite quick follow, where you just put in the twitter username and then SHAZAM your are following them.. Tweetdeck has the most polished interface I have ever seen, its too good to explain. The downside is that you cannot update your facebook status unlike the computer version. And its absolutly free! This is a absolutly amazing app i would suggest this over tweetie. 90%

The APP “Shift” Is a fun and addictive game on the iPhone and iTouch. The APP is .99$, but I think it is well worth it. The idea is that you have to go through levels were there are certain difficult challenges in the way like doors that you have to unlock, spikes falling to the ground, etc… There is a catch though!!! You will come across times (usually in every level) when you have to “shift” it makes the level turn upside down or more like instead of be walking through the white area you start walking through the black area and you become white. I really don’t know how to explain it, but it is really quite something. Anyways I really like the game, I love how the difficulty changes and it really tests your skills. 90%