As the first five-day working week in ages looms, you’ll be needing some serious relaxation this weekend to prepare. We prescribe five doses of iPhone gaming goodness, taken neat. Make sure you’re reclining comfortably when you play them, too.
Frisbee Forever
The trouble with ball rolling games like Super Monkey Ball is they’re inherently grounded. Sometimes you just want to break free and soar. Frisbee Forever tasks you with chucking a spinning round thing through a bunch of hoops, but it does so with considerable style. It’s an official tie-in with everyone’s favourite park/beach toy, and the presentation really does the famous brand justice. Each level is a chunky, vibrant and faintly Nintendo-esque affair that’s a joy to skim through. Do you want to know the best bit? Despite containing some 100 levels of polished action, it won’t cost you a penny.
Piclings
Piclings has nothing to do with preserving food in vinegar and everything to do with putting your digital photographs to good use. Ostensibly a cute 2D platformer, what sets Piclings apart is the ability to create levels by taking a picture with your iPhone camera. Desks and chairs suddenly become virtual jungle jims for your little picling, Picazzo, to negotiate. The game ingeniously detects edges, you see, so all the hard work is done for you. With a heavy social element allowing you to share your creations, Piclings could well be the iPhone’s Little Big Planet.
Par Out Golf
Line drawing games have taken a bit of a back seat in recent months as casual physics games and perpetual runners have taken over. Par Out Golf is a fine return to the core mechanics laid down by Flight Control. This time you’re not guiding planes to their destination, but rather golf balls. Like the brilliant DrawRace, just because you draw a path for your ball it doesn’t mean it will always follow it – the wind and various physical obstacles stand in your way. To make things even trickier, fog frequently rolls in as you start, calling on your powers of nerve and recollection to pull you through.
Who’s That Flying?!
If hard-as-nails retro shooters are your thing, Who’s That Flying? should be right up your street. You control a pint-sized superhero who must take on a legion of black blobby fiends as they attack earth. Our hero auto-fires, so it’s just your job to steer him around the screen, dispensing justice to the variously-sized (and variously stubborn) blobs. At the end of each level you’ll encounter an enormous bullet sponge that will take considerable skill and patience to dispatch. It’s pretty intense stuff, but WTF’s cartoony graphics and accessible gameplay take a considerable amount of the sting out of its tail.
Imaginary Range
As an intriguing mixture of comic book and game, Imaginary Range is nothing if not unique. As you flick through the Japanese manga-inflected ‘pages’, there are various hidden object and point and click adventure elements sewn into the fabric of the story. These are interspersed with a number on mini-games. It’s certainly something of an acquired taste – especially if you’re not usually a comic book fan – but the concept is intriguing and the artwork striking, so it’s certainly worth trying out. Perhaps mindful that the ‘game’ would prove divisive, Square Enix is offering it for free, so there really is no reason not to give it a try.
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Article source: http://www.fonehome.co.uk/2011/05/07/iphone-games-round-up-frisbee-forever-piclings-par-out-golf-whos-that-flying-imaginary-range/
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