Figured Id see if this works since it would help alot to read some others' thoughts on the games before you have to click and buy the motherfuckers with no demo.
I will edit and add some more games as I get a minute to do a little write up.
Post up some of your own reviews too
Games I Have:
Super Monkey Ball($9.99):
Probably the best graphics on the iPhone so far, and the most "famous" game to show off to people. Also has good music/sound effects, really feels like a DS or PSP game when you are playing it.
Game is pretty fun, but you have to play/practice ALOT because it is VERY difficult to control for a while. The controls/camera are very sensitive. You will not be able to play this in a car or bus or anything like that. Basically you have to be sitting upright and looking down at the phone to play. Also dont play it if you tend to get really pissed off at games and throw shit, you will break your iPhone.
Graphics: 9
Sound: 9
Controls: 5.5
Fun Level: About a 2 @ first, then like a 7.5 when you get more used to it
Cro Mag Rally($9.99):
Pretty good graphics, nice controls with the tilt. You keep your left thumb on that F (forward) button, and just tilt the phone to steer. Its basically a small scale version of Mario Kart. You get little weapons/speed boosts to use and shit. A little expensive at $10 I think, would rather it be about $5.
The levels are pretty good, about 9 or 10 of them I think, and like 6 different vehicles. My main complaint is theres really no progressing or story mode in the game, you just race on a level, it ends, and you are done. Also the laps are a little too long and theres 3 laps on each course. Tends to get a little boring after a while
Graphics: 8
Sound: 7
Controls: 8
Fun Level: 7
Tap Tap Revenge($FREE):
http://tapulous.com/taptap/
This game is fun as shit. Its basically Guitar Hero/Rock Band with your fingers. Theres 4 difficulty levels - Easy/medium are pretty fucking easy, Hard is challenging, and Expert is goddamn hard. Since the update (1.1 version), there is now about a total of 12 songs or so to play.
The game has a 2-player mode, but its 2-people on 1 device, kinda gay feeling when you are playing with a buddy.
It could use better hit/miss detection, its hard to tell if you are still on a streak/combo or you missed one. It has a giant "MISS" that pops up, but it doesnt seem to always register a miss and if you miss like 4-5 in a row its annoyign as shit with MISSMISSMISSMISS all over the screen.
No ability to use your own songs yet though, maybe they'll add in an update...
Also they have tournaments where you upload your high scores and they have a leaderboard online. Pretty sweet game, especially for FREE.
Graphics: 6 - very simple, but effective. Could use a combo counter or something
Sound: 9 - sounds just like playing your ipod on speakermode.
Controls: 9
Fun Level: 9
Chopper($7.99):
http://majicjungle.com/iphone.html
This game owns. Very simple/easy to control & play game. Titling the phone controls the chopper, and up in the 2 top corners of the screen are bombs and guns to shoot shit with. Its a side scroller with a 3-D look to the foreground/background.
There are 3 difficulty modes, save game progress, and keeps high scores. The levels are just little missions: sometimes you have to blow shit up, sometimes you have to land and pick up people and bring them somewhere.
Sound effects are decent, graphics are decent, but the gameplay is just fun. Very easy to pick up and play for 5 mins if you want, or an hour.
Graphics: 7.5
Sound: 7.5
Controls: 9.5
Fun Level: 9.5
Vay($4.99):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vay
Old school RPG action on the iPhone. Vay is a remake/port from the SegaCD.Overhead RPG map-type game, level up, get equipment, meet new characters for your party, etc etc. If you've played Final Fantasty 1 on NES and liked it, you will like this game.
Graphics are pretty sweet, and it even has little anime-type cut scene "cinemas". You walk around on the map by tapping the screen where you want to walk, kinda like Diablo II or something. Sometimes its a little frustrating to get your character to walk up to a small treasure chest perfectly without missing it by a step and having to click again and shit.
When you are in a battle, you click on attack or magic, then click on the enemy or party member you are attacking/casting magic on. For quick little bullshit enemies you can just click on the AI button, and let the CPU attack & kill them real quick.
I haven't played it too long, but of course it saves games progress and has multiple save slots. From what I understand, this should be about ~40 hours of gameplay . Good game (if you like RPGs of course)
Graphics: 8
Sound: 8
Controls: 7
Fun Level: 7
Cube Runner($FREE):
http://andyqua.co.uk/CubeRunner/Welcome.html
Free, and the game I have spent the most time playing by far. Cube Runner is a very simple little game where you guide your "ship" (a little triangle) through a field of cubes. All you do is tilt the phone to move the ship, and the score is just calculated by how long you manage to not crash into one.
There are 3 levels of difficulty, and you can play in portrait or landscape mode. The graphics as you can see are as basic as possible, and there is no sound. But for some reason its just really fun to try and beat your high score over and over again. Its the type of game anyone can play and its the type of game you can pick up and play for 2 mins or 20 mins.
Graphics: 3
Sound: n/a
Controls: 9
Fun Level: 9
Labyrinth LE($FREE):
http://labyrinth.codify.se/
This was on all the hacked iPhones before, pretty much the exact same shit. Just hold your iPhone horizontally and tilt the ball around the maze without falling into a hole.
Pretty hard once you get past the first few levels, but the tilt control works very well and its obviously very simple. Not bad, but I get bored with it easily
Graphics: 4
Sound: n/a
Controls: 9
Fun Level: 6
GraalZone ($FREE):
http://www.graalonline.com/zone/
This game looks badass, and has online multiplayer. But thats where the positives stop. This shit is terrible at best...
You control your character on a 3/4 overhead type map by tilting the phone around - very odd control scheme, feels like you are "driving" your guy instead of walking.
You kill enemies by clicking on little weapon icons on the side of the screen. Knifes/Guns/Grenades/etc are available to pickup throughout the stage in crates.
Oh, and it gets very laggy during gameplay over Wi-Fi or 3G. Wait for an update or 2 on this one.
Graphics: 8
Sound: 7
Controls: 2
Fun Level: 3
I will edit and add some more games as I get a minute to do a little write up.
Post up some of your own reviews too
Games I Have:
Super Monkey Ball($9.99):
Probably the best graphics on the iPhone so far, and the most "famous" game to show off to people. Also has good music/sound effects, really feels like a DS or PSP game when you are playing it.
Game is pretty fun, but you have to play/practice ALOT because it is VERY difficult to control for a while. The controls/camera are very sensitive. You will not be able to play this in a car or bus or anything like that. Basically you have to be sitting upright and looking down at the phone to play. Also dont play it if you tend to get really pissed off at games and throw shit, you will break your iPhone.
Graphics: 9
Sound: 9
Controls: 5.5
Fun Level: About a 2 @ first, then like a 7.5 when you get more used to it
Cro Mag Rally($9.99):
Pretty good graphics, nice controls with the tilt. You keep your left thumb on that F (forward) button, and just tilt the phone to steer. Its basically a small scale version of Mario Kart. You get little weapons/speed boosts to use and shit. A little expensive at $10 I think, would rather it be about $5.
The levels are pretty good, about 9 or 10 of them I think, and like 6 different vehicles. My main complaint is theres really no progressing or story mode in the game, you just race on a level, it ends, and you are done. Also the laps are a little too long and theres 3 laps on each course. Tends to get a little boring after a while
Graphics: 8
Sound: 7
Controls: 8
Fun Level: 7
Tap Tap Revenge($FREE):
http://tapulous.com/taptap/
This game is fun as shit. Its basically Guitar Hero/Rock Band with your fingers. Theres 4 difficulty levels - Easy/medium are pretty fucking easy, Hard is challenging, and Expert is goddamn hard. Since the update (1.1 version), there is now about a total of 12 songs or so to play.
The game has a 2-player mode, but its 2-people on 1 device, kinda gay feeling when you are playing with a buddy.
It could use better hit/miss detection, its hard to tell if you are still on a streak/combo or you missed one. It has a giant "MISS" that pops up, but it doesnt seem to always register a miss and if you miss like 4-5 in a row its annoyign as shit with MISSMISSMISSMISS all over the screen.
No ability to use your own songs yet though, maybe they'll add in an update...
Also they have tournaments where you upload your high scores and they have a leaderboard online. Pretty sweet game, especially for FREE.
Graphics: 6 - very simple, but effective. Could use a combo counter or something
Sound: 9 - sounds just like playing your ipod on speakermode.
Controls: 9
Fun Level: 9
Chopper($7.99):
http://majicjungle.com/iphone.html
This game owns. Very simple/easy to control & play game. Titling the phone controls the chopper, and up in the 2 top corners of the screen are bombs and guns to shoot shit with. Its a side scroller with a 3-D look to the foreground/background.
There are 3 difficulty modes, save game progress, and keeps high scores. The levels are just little missions: sometimes you have to blow shit up, sometimes you have to land and pick up people and bring them somewhere.
Sound effects are decent, graphics are decent, but the gameplay is just fun. Very easy to pick up and play for 5 mins if you want, or an hour.
Graphics: 7.5
Sound: 7.5
Controls: 9.5
Fun Level: 9.5
Vay($4.99):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vay
Old school RPG action on the iPhone. Vay is a remake/port from the SegaCD.Overhead RPG map-type game, level up, get equipment, meet new characters for your party, etc etc. If you've played Final Fantasty 1 on NES and liked it, you will like this game.
Graphics are pretty sweet, and it even has little anime-type cut scene "cinemas". You walk around on the map by tapping the screen where you want to walk, kinda like Diablo II or something. Sometimes its a little frustrating to get your character to walk up to a small treasure chest perfectly without missing it by a step and having to click again and shit.
When you are in a battle, you click on attack or magic, then click on the enemy or party member you are attacking/casting magic on. For quick little bullshit enemies you can just click on the AI button, and let the CPU attack & kill them real quick.
I haven't played it too long, but of course it saves games progress and has multiple save slots. From what I understand, this should be about ~40 hours of gameplay . Good game (if you like RPGs of course)
Graphics: 8
Sound: 8
Controls: 7
Fun Level: 7
Cube Runner($FREE):
http://andyqua.co.uk/CubeRunner/Welcome.html
Free, and the game I have spent the most time playing by far. Cube Runner is a very simple little game where you guide your "ship" (a little triangle) through a field of cubes. All you do is tilt the phone to move the ship, and the score is just calculated by how long you manage to not crash into one.
There are 3 levels of difficulty, and you can play in portrait or landscape mode. The graphics as you can see are as basic as possible, and there is no sound. But for some reason its just really fun to try and beat your high score over and over again. Its the type of game anyone can play and its the type of game you can pick up and play for 2 mins or 20 mins.
Graphics: 3
Sound: n/a
Controls: 9
Fun Level: 9
Labyrinth LE($FREE):
http://labyrinth.codify.se/
This was on all the hacked iPhones before, pretty much the exact same shit. Just hold your iPhone horizontally and tilt the ball around the maze without falling into a hole.
Pretty hard once you get past the first few levels, but the tilt control works very well and its obviously very simple. Not bad, but I get bored with it easily
Graphics: 4
Sound: n/a
Controls: 9
Fun Level: 6
GraalZone ($FREE):
http://www.graalonline.com/zone/
This game looks badass, and has online multiplayer. But thats where the positives stop. This shit is terrible at best...
You control your character on a 3/4 overhead type map by tilting the phone around - very odd control scheme, feels like you are "driving" your guy instead of walking.
You kill enemies by clicking on little weapon icons on the side of the screen. Knifes/Guns/Grenades/etc are available to pickup throughout the stage in crates.
Oh, and it gets very laggy during gameplay over Wi-Fi or 3G. Wait for an update or 2 on this one.
Graphics: 8
Sound: 7
Controls: 2
Fun Level: 3