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Air Hockey iPhone Game Review

Posted on 10. Jan, 2009 by iPhone App Reviewer in $1, 8 Star Ratings, iPhone Game App Reviews

Air Hockey by Acceleroto: The air hockey app we’ve been waiting for

If you don’t like air hockey, don’t expect this app to get you into that groove.  Although if you do, this has to be one of the best air hockey games for the iPhone and iPod Touch!  There is much room for improvement though $0.99 cents is an amazing price for an app of this quality.  Air Hockey by Acceleroto provides you with a genuine fantastic air hockey experience.  Ability to play by yourself against a computer of five difficulty levels or with a friend (but on the same phone).  A cool feature is being able to play with two pucks, this provides a unique challenge.

The game has excellent physics with absolutely no kinks.  The touch controls are smooth, nothing lags and the AI (artificial intelligence) reacts promptly.  The difficulty levels simply increase the speed of your opponent’s puck which yes provides a challenge but it would be nice to see increased intelligence.  Although play INSANE! mode and you might call me crazy to want to actually raise intelligence.  There are however a few glitches/game errors to fix as listed below in ‘Further Improvements’.  Overall the game feels good.

User interface is simple.  Really simple.  Slide up menus at the start get you right into the game; as for any other menu/settings they can be found by double tapping the center logo in game.  You’re able to set the board to change to random colours each time you play a new game.  If you make a mistake in setting up your game, you can double tap the logo and tap reset game.  This will start a new game so you don’t have to finish your current one to go to the original slide up menus.  Goal alerts are flashed when you score that adds that tiny bit of excitement to scoring.  As for sound, it’s clear as a bell and adds the perfect touch of realism to the app.  iPod music is playable in the app and volume control can be accessed by double tapping the logo.

Final Ratings:

Gameplay: 8/10

Enjoyment: 8/10

Graphics: 9/10

Sound: 9/10

Technology: 6/10

Replay Value: 7.5/10

Overall Rating: 8/10

Further Improvements: (note to the developer!)

• Fix Glitch: Exiting and resuming game leaves you with the puck(s) automatically
• Fix Glitch: Pucks stay frozen after resuming a paused game (though the opponent will hit the pucks still)
• More settings (number of pucks, colours, bounce, friction)
• Multiplayer over wi-fi
• Timed game with high scores
• Win/Lose statistics

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