iPhone Quick Review Series 7: Red Bull Air Race, Ace Hunter, Puzzle Quiz, The Magic Blackboard

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Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by iPhone App Reviewer in iPhone Quick Series

Another four, oh boy.

Red Bull Air Race [iTunes Link] – [Screenshots]

Current Price: $2.99
Category: Games
Developer: Artificial Life Inc.
Current iTunes Rating: 2.5/5
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1
Lite Version: iTunes Link

Red Bull Air Race is another flight styled game for the iPhone (see Laminar Research’s page for other flight games), this app however is based off a popular recent event called,iPhone App Reviews by iPhone App Reviewer › Edit Post — WordPress well, Red Bull Air Race. This app features several locations to race with your Red Bull aircraft, using the accelerometer and touch controls to weave through an over-water fast speed race, doing full vertical turns and knifing through pylons. The user interface and graphics are simply beautiful and will have you wishing every app would use the capabilities of the iPhone like Red Bull Air Race does.

Air Race is packed with features, including quick flight, tournament/season mode and even a custom flight mode where you can create racing maps and even share them with friends. It includes an excellent tutorial to get you started but unfortunately the controls will take quite a bit of time to get used to as they can be a little buggy. Luckily it includes accelerometer sensitivity adjustment and calibration so you can perfect it to your liking. Definitely check out Red Bull Air Race for any racing, flying, or Red Bull fan.

Final Rating: 8.5/10

Ace Hunter [iTunes Link] – [Screenshots]

Current Price: $0.99
Category: Games
Developer: Coresoft Inc.
Current iTunes Rating: 2.5/5
Version Reviewed: 1.5

Ace Hunter is yet another point, aim, shoot game, this app doesn’t bring anything new. Using either the shaky uncalibrated accelerometer controls or the touch controls, you must point your crosshair at a deer hidden in a forestry camping background and fire. The graphics are mediocre leaving you unattached to the game, not to mention that the setting theme never changes so you’re always staring at that same background. The online score board might be enough to keep you playing but don’t count on it.

Final Rating: 4.9/10

Puzzle Quiz [iTunes Link] – [Screenshots]

Current Price: $0.99
Category: Games
Developer: Digital Fun
Current iTunes Rating: 4.5/5
Version Reviewed: 1.1.3
Lite Version: iTunes Link

Puzzle Quiz is a unique puzzle game in which you must shift around pieces to form the original picture. Puzzle Quiz is highly polished and one of the best jigsaw puzzle type games I’ve played on the iPhone. For bonus time, Puzzle Quiz gives you a historical trivia question too. It has a pretty cool interface and even an online leaderboard. With three difficulty levels and tons of puzzles made form world class photos, puzzle quiz can keep you entertained for quite a while. Plus when you get bored of the standard levels, it allows you to use your own photos to create a scrambled puzzle (still with multiple difficulty levels). Unfortunately you cannot upload your custom puzzles to the Internet. Nor can you challenge or email people your scores, the online features of Puzzle Quiz are limited to just a high score board. Which is too bad because this sort of addicting gameplay would be even better if you could face others in real time, fastest to solve the puzzle wins. All in all if you’re looking for an addictive pick up and play jigsaw game, Puzzle Quiz is for you. Enjoy!

Final Rating: 7.9/10

The Magic Blackboard [iTunes Link] – [Screenshots]

Current Price: $0.99
Developer: Alpha72 Games
Current iTunes Rating: 4/5
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1

This is just another warped breakout style game. Unfortunately The Magic Blackboard fails to be an entertaining game and all the flashy graphics make for an annoying session of play. Not ot mention the very glitchy control scheme (at least you can use tilt or touch…. The Magic Blackboard needs some serious work before I can consider keeping i on my iPod. This application was quickly deleted off my iPod after several people I tested it with gave it two thumbs down.