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Articles tagged with "Arcade"

iPhone App Video Review: Lightopus

You play as the lightopus. In fact, you are the very last adult lightopus in the vast sea. After horrible monsters from the Abyss rise up, they seal away all the lightopus egg sacks in awful, monster filled zones. It’s up to big mama lightopus to go in and free them all, eventually fighting the mo ... Full Article »

June 13, 2012 9:12am

iPhone App Video Review: SoulCalibur

The game premiered on consoles as a launch title with the beloved Dreamcast, and has since been ported to the Xbox LIVE Arcade, and now your iOS device! It’s a high quality port of the game, with the excellent HD visuals of the XBLA edition, though it is missing a couple modes as well as any kind ... Full Article »

May 12, 2012 1:07pm

iPhone App Video Review: Pizza Vs. Skeletons

After the undead begin walking and terrorizing the world, you take it upon yourself as a 25 foot-tall pizza with incredible rigidity and balance to crush them all into bone dust. This takes many forms, however. You'll start out simply rolling left and right, battling skeletons with spears, but soon ... Full Article »

February 21, 2012 6:41am

iPhone App Video Review: Zen Pinball

This is the same old basic pinball we all know and love, but with some bells and whistles exclusive to video games. Tap either side of the screen to activate the respective flipper and shake the phone to shake the table; simple. The tables themselves are highly interactive, and even bring you to var ... Full Article »

January 29, 2012 2:30pm

iPhone App Video Review: Smash Cops

The bulk of the gameplay consists of several police pursuits in which you chase down and ram any rogue vehicles into complete oblivion. What about due process you ask? Don’t be silly. These are action movie cops! The kind that don’t have to deal with paper work or protocol. They prefer to murder ... Full Article »

January 24, 2012 12:14pm

Breakout: Boost takes a decent trip down memory lane

Breakout: Boost does not set out to reinvent the wheel, and the gameplay at its core affirms that it doesn’t really need to. The game works like it has for decades — essentially like playing Pong against a brick wall that falls apart with each successive hit, the player knocks down the wall unti ... Full Article »

January 5, 2012 7:00pm

Sonic CD iPhone game spins into the App Store

If you look past the misnomer of a name, Sonic CD delivers exactly what it suggests — a faithful recreation of the Sega CD title. That it’s an app and not on a CD at all seems to work for the better, though not everything is peaches and cream when it comes to the update of this classic title. T ... Full Article »

December 27, 2011 4:00pm

iPhone App Video Review: Bug Princess

You take on the role of Princess Reco as she tries to save a village from swarms of massive insects. The story is just framework for the gameplay, as is usual in these titles. The simple touch controls are well done. The gameplay screen is framed, leaving you room at the bottom to hit buttons and mo ... Full Article »

December 21, 2011 12:30pm

Grabatron iPhone game fails to take hold

Grabatron is an interesting game. It’s essentially like playing a fleshed-out version of that claw-grabber game that most arcades put in the back of the room. Except this time the claw is attached to an alien space craft whose job it is to terrorize some nameless farm town by grabbing up its cows, ... Full Article »

December 20, 2011 6:00am

iPhone App Video Review: Tank Riders

The game features a single player campaign with 30 missions split up between two chapters and a tutorial section. Missions basically consist of roaming around a level and stepping on or shooting switches to lower gates, or using teleporters to get around. Along the way, various enemy tanks will impe ... Full Article »

December 15, 2011 9:40am


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