Funky Smugglers game Review

Funky Smugglers Review Score:

Funky Smugglers, a stylish avoidance game from 11 Bit Studios, is now available from the app store. Featuring a colorfully appealing aesthetic, a killer ‘70s-inspired soundtrack, and often frantic gameplay, Funky Smugglers has proved extremely difficult to put down.

Funky Smugglers Pros:

• Colorful cartoon presentation with a hip aesthetic; rhythmic animations
• Soundtrack is outstanding, keeping your head bobbin’ with funky ’70s beats
• Touch controls are responsive and collision detection is good
• GameCenter integration for leaderboards and achievements to earn

Funky Smugglers Cons:

• Coins are earned at a horribly slow pace, pushing gamers toward IAP
• Team Battles feel too passive; no true sense of camaraderie with group

You take on the role of a TSA agent, tasked with preventing dangerous objects from being smuggled aboard an airplane. Using a full body scanner, you are able to screen potential passengers for hidden objects, which appear as red or green. You use your finger to swipe red items away while avoiding contact with the safe and approved green items. You can drag your finger around the screen to collect multiple red items at once, creating combos to drive up your score.
While you hold the banned items, a timer counts down. You have to flick the stash away before the time expires or risk losing the points you’ve accumulated from the group. Tossing the items and catching them again will reset your timer, allowing you to continue to collect more items and build upon your combo. Each red item allowed through, or green item accidentally touched, will cost you one of your three lives. Gameplay is wave-based, with a set number of passengers attempting to board each plane. Subsequent flights will apply an increasing point multiplier, creating the opportunity for better scores the longer you survive.

Your run ends once the third life is lost, and coins will be awarded to you based on your performance. These coins can be used to purchase one-time or persistent power-ups, giving you the ability to start at a more advanced plane on the next attempt, increase the length of the countdown timer, and much more. During the course of play, you’ll also encounter some bonuses within the scanner, such as magnets that attract red items and suitcases that speed up or slow down the passengers moving through the machine. You can even pick up an extra life to cancel out a previous mistake. A series of challenging missions are also always available, asking you to complete tasks like tossing 20 items, surviving for 120 seconds, reaching the fourth plane, and more. Completion of these missions will also increase your coin total and provide you with fun tasks to keep gameplay from getting stale. Joining a Team Battle will also add the benefit of bonus coins and give you a community-based experience while you play.

Graphically, Funky Smugglers has a fun and stylish look, infused with a good dose of humor. The character types of the passengers are varied, and the objects that they try to smuggle in can be a bit off-beat (spiders, chainsaws, pliers, etc.). Animations are smooth and predictable, though avoiding green items held in swinging arms can prove to be quite challenging as you progress. The soundtrack is worth the price of admission alone, dropping some funky beats to keep your head bobbin’ while you play. Controls are dead simple to use, requiring you to drag over items to collect them and give a hearty flick to throw them away. We found them to be adequately responsive, with good collision detection.

Replay value is very good, as the opportunity to set new high scores is ever-present. Completing missions and helping out in the Team Battles can also provide incentive to keep playing. GameCenter integration provides leaderboards and an achievement system, too. A universal app for a mere $0.99, Funky Smugglers earns a 4.5-Dimple seal of approval.

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Shrek Forever After iPhone game Review

The DreamWorks Animations presents “Shrek Forever After” as your iPhone game.
In the Shrek Forever After game you can Be a “Real Ogre” as you fight, race, scare, explore, and fly through 11 visually-stunning 3-D levels as Shrek, Donkey and Puss In Boots! It’s an epic tale of Love, War, & Sketchy Contracts!

In Shrek Forever After game you can Jump, slide, battle, race, fly, scare people, bounce, climb, swing… When it comes to Shrek, more is more. In this game you have to save the day as Shrek, Donkey and Puss In Boots!

In the Shrek Forever After game longing for the days when he felt like a “real ogre,” Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumplestiltskin. The Shrek finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumplestiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met.

 

Shrek Forever After game for iphone

Shrek Forever After iPhone game Review:

• SEEMINGLY ENDLESS GAMEPLAY VARIETY.
• 11 LEVELS OF OGRE WITH ACTION.
• THERE ARE 3 PLAYABLE CHARACTERS.
• MORE THEN HUNDREDS OF LINES OF CHARACTER AUDIO.
• NEW ENEMIES AND OLD FRIENDS
• WITH THIS THERE ARE 3 BONUS MINI-GAMES.
• BY UNLOCK EVERY STAGE YOU CAN Earn 14 different achievements and connect to Gameloft Live
to show to your friends.
• YOU CAN CONNECT WITH iPod LIBRARY ACCESS

Requirements to run Shrek Forever After on iPhone:
Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later

Shrek Forever After Game Overview:
• Category: Games
• Updated: Jul 13, 2011
• Version: 1.0.1
• Size: 192 MB
• Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
• Price: $4.99

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Devils Attorney game Review

Devils Attorney Review Score:

Devil’s Attorney, a turn-based strategy game with a litigious theme, has been released by 1337 Game Design and is now available from the app store. Chock full of humor and RPGish elements, Devil’s Attorney is cleverly entertaining and a real treat for mobile gamers.

Devil’s Attorney Review Pros:

• Polished cartoon presentation with a great courtroom vibe; influenced by ’80s style and packed with humor
• Soundtrack is outstanding, intro song is infectious, and voice work is terrific
• Controls are simple to use
• RPG elements add great depth

Devil’s Attorney Review Cons:

• Love the game, but hate the name
• At times, it feels a little too easy, but the experience trumps the challenge

The attorney in question is Max McMann, a charismatic defense attorney charged with helping his clients beat the system and regain their freedom after they find themselves in all manner of hot water with the law. Whereas most turn-based strategy games take a shoot-first, ask-questions-later approach, Devil’s Attorney takes a more cerebral, questions-only approach as you launch judicial-specific attacks (interrogating the witness, tampering with evidence, epic speech, etc.) to wear down the prosecution’s case and take advantage of justice’s blind eye. Additionally, you can make moves that strengthen your own case or mitigate the damage caused by your opponents. Cases play out over the course of several rounds, starting you with 9 Action Points to purchase the tactics needed to poke holes in the opposition’s case, eliminating pesky witnesses, damning evidence, and slimy lawyers one by one.
 Once you’ve used up your AP, the prosecution inflicts damage to your case. You go back-and-forth until one side claims victory. If you win, your client gets off and you receive a tidy sum of money for your troubles (including bonuses for quick dismissal), which you can use to purchase new duds or swanky items for your apartment. After all, that’s what it’s all about, right? These living quarter upgrades and personal improvements give you new skills to use as you battle it out in front of the bench for subsequent scofflaws. Personal gifts also enhance the tactics you’ve already acquired.

Graphically, the cartoony presentation is terrific, clean and appealing. Your tactics appear in a scrollable list on the left half of the screen, with a short explanation of each item’s effect and the number of Action Points required to use it. Your AP total is at the screen bottom, and your case strength appears at the screen top. The opposition is listed on the right half of the screen, with credibility ratings at the left of each item and a damage indicator listed underneath.
If you can reduce the credibility to zero, they drop out and bring you one step closer to winning. Reduction of damage and the elimination of damage enhancers is key to swift victory. There is little animation other than some funny cut scenes with goofy banter between McMann and the prosecutors.
The soundtrack is catchy and the voice work is outstanding. The intro song is a major highlight and a bear to get out of your head once you’ve heard it. Humor is plentiful, providing levity and quirkiness that permeate throughout the game. Controls require you to tap on a tactic to select it, then tap on a prosecutor, witness, or piece of evidence to attack it.  A small pop-up indicates how much damage is inflicted, as most attacks have a value range that’s broad enough that you never know whether or not an attack with have a significant effect or not.

Replay value is somewhat low, as there really isn’t any need to replay cases that you’ve already won, nor does there appear to be any way to go back and do so. There are a ton of cases to work through, and deciding which upgrades to pursue and which gifts and accessories to accept can create varying experiences that should bring you back for more. It’s a surprisingly deep, superbly polished, and devastatingly addictive game that took us by surprise. A universal app for $2.99, Devil’s Attorney is a fantastic 5-Dimple stud.

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iPhone free commands and activities

iPhone 3G Commands

 Here is a list of the iPhone tricks that you can do to make using the iPhone 3G a little faster and a little easier. 

Typing

• Double tap the space bar when typing to do a full stop then space
  
• Need to insert or modify a letter in amazing you typed? Hold your finger over the word and a magnifying glass will appear. You can scroll to the right area of the word and make the appropriate changes.
  
• Double tap the shift key to enable caps lock
  
• Hold the ".com" button to get other common extensions (.net, .edu and .org)
  
• Hold on a letter to get character accents
  
• If needing one number or symbol mid typing hold the @123 key then drag to the number or symbol without lifting your finger. Once the figure is selected the keyboard will go without delay back to the alphabetical QWERTY keyboard.

Home Screen

• To move icons around on the home screen hold the icons until they shake. You can then drag them around or delete them if you no longer want them. Press the home key to save the rearranged setout.
  
• You can move among home screens by rhythm on the dots at the bottom (will move right if tapping on the right of the dots or left if beating the left of the dots).
  
• To add a webpage to your home screen, open the web page in Safari, click on the + sign and then select add to home screen.
  
• To improve the look of the web page icon zoom to a logo or something similar then click the + button (the icon is a snapshot of the part of the page you are currently viewing)

Phone Calls

• Press the Sleep/Wake button once when there is an received call to silence it
  
• When in a call press the home key to go to the home screen (can look at email etc at the same time as still on a call)
  
• Press the Sleep/Wake button twice when there is an incoming call to send directly to voice mail (useful in meetings where you forgot to revolve the phone to silent)

Safari

• Click on the top of the screen in safari to return to the top of the webpage
  
• To scroll in frame what is not showing scroll bars, put two fingers together and you can scroll
  
• Hold on an image to save it to your camera turn

Home Key

• Double tap the home key to bring up your favourites (or other assigned function in settings)
  
• When listening to the ipod in another application double tap the home key to bring up controls for the ipod.
  
• Hold the home key and press the sleep switch to take a photo of the current screen
  
• Hold the home key and sleep/wake button for about 10 seconds to revive the iphone (helpful if an application has unmoving)

Phone Information

• Dial *#06# to bring up your IMEI number
  
• To bring up a field test menu dial *3001#12345#* then press call

  

Other

• Delete an email or letter quickly by a steal across the message (works with videos too!)

Double tap on a video to zoom in to remove the black bars

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Punch Quest game Review

Punch Quest Review Score :

Punch Quest, a side-scrolling “endless puncher” from Rocketcat Games and Madgarden, is now available from the app store. Featuring Rocketcat’s usual retro pixelated graphics, exciting gameplay, and tons of hats, Punch Quest is yet another terrific release that has kept us glued to our iDevice.

Punch Quest Review Pros:

• Retro pixelated presentation with multiple enemies, collectible skills, and randomized branching pathways
• Soundtrack is catchy and upbeat
• Controls are simple to use, utilizing 2 buttons for multiple maneuvers
• Fun mission system and generous coin distribution make for fresh gameplay options
• GameCenter integration provides global leaderboards and nearly 2 dozen achievements to earn

Punch Quest Review Cons:

• Difficult to string together lengthy punch chains
• Getting into double digit levels has proved challenging

Punch Quest has a distinctly Jetpack Joyride-like vibe, from its opening moments where the protagonist bursts through a wall and takes out a group of skeletons to the various quests available to complete to its loot-collecting focus that allows you to purchase various skills and apparel.
However, Punch Quest goes above and beyond, throwing a ton of crazy stuff at you and offering a three-tiered skill system that directly affects the way you play the game. As you progress, you fill a bar with three distinct thresholds along the screen bottom. As you hit each threshold, you activate your equipped Level 1 power, Level 2 power, or Super Move.
These skills range from a blocking defense mechanism to extended fighting range to temporary invincibility and much more. You purchase these skills with money earned during gameplay, which is doled our generously. Prices of items are kept low enough that you’ll be able to purchase new things without a great deal of grinding or the need to turn to IAP. Persistent upgrades and one-time boosts can also be purchased.

Additionally, there is a great variety of enemy types to deal with, mini-bosses to fight, and path randomization that allows you to choose different branches that focus on fighting, treasure, eggs, and more. The control scheme for dealing with all of this insanity is kept dead simple.
Tap the button on the left for a leaping uppercut or tap the button on the right for a vicious jab. Stringing together a series of continual punches will increase a multiplier that drives up your score, helping you to level up and earn even more points. You have 5 hearts worth of health, losing a heart for each hit you take.
Certain power-ups or items can add armor to hearts, giving you additional health, in effect. To block, simply hold both buttons at the same time. You can perform slams by tapping the uppercut button while airborne and even string together combo moves by tapping one button after the other. The auto-running has a good sense of speed, though you’ll need to avoid the hesitation brought on by blocking in order to clear some gaps with your uppercut maneuver.

Graphically, Punch Quest utilizes the same retro pixilated look that made Rocketcat’s other games so appealing. Animations are great, with plenty of cool bony explosions and characters sent careening into each other. Enemy types have a distinct look that makes them easy to distinguish from one another as you determine the best course of action to use in dispatching them.
You can customize the protagonist’s hair, skin, armor, and hat colors and styles. The soundtrack is catchy and upbeat, adding to the overall presentation. Replay value is off the chain, as we can’t seem to put it down. The fantastic action, collectible skills and upgrades, loads of quests, customization options, and ridiculously fun scenarios make this a must-have offering. At the goes-down-easy price of FREE (very optional IAPs only), Punch Quest is a knockout 5-Dimple experience.

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