Our Rating: 8.4/10

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Version Reviewed: 1.0.2
Developer: SkyZone Entertainment [iTunes Link]
Price as of Review: $0.99
Current iTunes Rating: 3.5/5
Size: 6.7MB
Lite Version: [iTunes Link]

Extreme Hangman adds a creative twist to hangman. It is played on a virtual chalk board and there are many situations your stick-figure may find itself in. From the classic hangman situation, being hung from a noose, to getting your brains eaten by zombies, Extreme Hangman will keep your attention with the variety of creative animations. You get six false choices and two hints before your stick-person dies. From actors to supermarket, there’s a category for everyone. With a variety of categories and ranging difficulties, Extreme Hangman is great for the novice or veteran player.

What I like most about Extreme Hangman is the creative situations your stick-person is put in. Instead of just enjoying guessing the word, I now also have fun seeing how my stick-person will react to my guess. The graphics are smooth and flawless. The local multiplayer is great for playing with a friend, but the word you choose must be at least five letters long. The options allow you to greatly customize the game. You can choose which animation you want to use or just change the difficulty. Extreme Hangman is extremely fun and addicting, even losing is fun!

Even though Extreme Hangman is a great game, it isn’t perfect. The sound fits the game but is very annoying. The online feature is a good idea, if it can be fixed. I tried it a few times with a friend and out of the many times we tried, we only got into the game once, and got disconnected within a minute. Those are really the only two things I can complain about with Extreme Hangman.

Overall, Extreme Hangman had me from the beginning. With the addicting gameplay, and creative animations, Extreme Hangman is one of my favourite apps. Hangman is a common game that has been remade countless times. I can honestly say that this is one of the best, if not the best hangman app out there. If you like hangman, you’ll love Extreme Hangman!

Overall Ratings:

Gameplay: 9.5/10 – Very addicting and impressive

Enjoyment: 9.5/10 – Even losing is fun!

Graphics: 9/10 – Smooth with very creative animations.

Sound: 5/10 – Fits the animations but VERY annoying.

Technology: 8/10 – Only uses touch controls but very effectively.

Replay Value: 9.5/10 – Never gets boring.

Final Ratings: 8.4/10

Further Improvements:

• Fix the online mode glitches.
• Choose less annoying music!
• Continue to increase words and categories

Until next time,

-Mike.

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Our Rating: 8.5/10

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Version Reviewed: 1.00.00
Developer: Handmark Inc
Price as of Review: $4.99
Current iTunes Rating: 3.5/5
Lite Version: [iTunes Link]

Phaze is [*sigh* yes, another one] racing game, yet probably one of the most addicting ones I’ve ever played on the iPhone.  The setting is different than most, we take a step into the future, racing with jet powered hover cars going at high speeds.  The game requires great reflex skills as all the tracks have bends and turns – failure to dodge these will result in loss of health.  Once you run out of health your vehicle will explode and you’ll definitely fall behind.

Phaze has several different maps and tons of vehicles – each with their own statistics, unfortunately you aren’t able to customize or buy additional parts for any of them.  Either way though there’s so many new things to unlock, you can play this game for days (trust me, it’s pretty darn addicting).  You can play in quick play mode to practice and beat your lap times or you can test your skills (and unlock new vehicles/maps) by playing Championship mode.  On four different difficulty levels the competition can get fierce, always dropping bombs and launching missiles.

The user interface is a simple menu, absolutely nothing fancy, just allows you to get into the game.  Although something like a cover flow mode to browse through available vehicles would be cool.  The controls are all based on the accelerometer, no touch controls are available.  Luckily you can calibrate and set the sensitivity of the accelerometer to your personal needs.  There are some unfortunate glitches and annoyances, in earlier versions even some stability issues.  Most have been fixed and you just need to figure out a comfortable spot to play.  The graphics set the perfect theme and don’t wear down the app’s performance; the sound is just as good.

All in all Phaze is a phenomenal racing game, probably the most addicting racing game I’ve played on the iPhone.  After getting past a few annoyances, $4.99 is a great price and all racing lovers should pick this one up.  Bravo, Handmark Inc.

Final Ratings:

Gameplay: 8.9/10 – Great racing Artificial Intelligence, power-ups during racing, and to top it off – unlockable vehicles and maps

Enjoyment: 9.5/10 – Absolutely – could hardly put it down.

Graphics: 8/10  – Double S – Suitable and Satisfactory

Sound: 8.1/10 – Bursting sound effects that enhance the racing experience.

Technology: 6.5/10  – A lot of annoyances, able to set accelerometers sensitivity but the relative angle has some serious problems.

Replay Value: 9.8/10 – Seriously addicting and for bonuses you can go through all the championships on four difficulty levels.

Overall Rating: 8.5/10

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Our Rating: 8.9/10

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Version Reviewed: 1.2
Developer: FDG Entertainment
Price as of Review: $0.99
Current iTunes Rating: 3.5/5
Lite Version: [iTunes Link]

Kryzer is a full blown 360 degree arcade game in which you control a spaceship fighting against enemy entities.  Although this isn’t a remake of any classic game, Kryzer really brings back the old arcade gaming experience.  The object of the game is to hunt down enemies by shooting at them, all you have to do is control your proximity to and from the inner circle.  Seem easy?  Bring it on; you’ll need some awesome reflexes to get in the high scores on this bad boy.  The game will continue to speed up (and change colour to notify you) and more enemies of different types will appear.  Every level you’ll also get a snake boss which can be a tricky thing to beat.

Due to the repetitiveness of the game, a few users might quickly forget about Kryzer and move on, the other 95% of it’s audience, will put it on the first page of their iPhone and be immensely addicted to it.   With it’s smooth and sleek graphics and very stable gameplay, you’ll be quite addicted.  I’ve found it to be the perfect pick up and play game, even though a game could very well last for hours (ok you’d have to be pretty good), the average game would be around 10 minutes, you can exit the app at any time and then pick it back up at any time with your progress saved.

The sound effects really move along our arcade paradigm we’ve got going here, they can get slightly annoying like most arcade game’s sound.  However the gameplay will really overcompensate and create a delightful ambiance for your addicted mind.  I really haven’t found anything I don’t like about this app.  Maybe a storyline or additions to the app throughout the game would be nice, and that’s really what stopping from getting this classic a 10/10.

So if you’re an arcade freak or just like a good addicting game, pick Kryzer up.  For a mere dollar this is one of the best values I’ve seen.  If you’re not sure about it, there is a lite version.  Enjoy!

Final Ratings:

Gameplay: 8.2/10 – Simple but immensely immersive.

Enjoyment: 9.5/10 – There was a point where this was definitely my favourite app.

Graphics: 8/10 – With any app, they could be better; I really like the style of Radial 50 with the cool background graphics.  Maybe Kryzer could implement this.

Sound: 7/10 – It’s an arcade game – not good not bad.  Really adds to the gameplay though.

Technology: 8/10 – Even though it just uses two touch buttons to control it, it’s the stability and sleek user interface that brings this rating up.

Replay Value: 9.7/10 – This is one of the most addicting apps I’ve played since Trism or Phaze.

Overall Rating: 8.9
Note the average rating is actually 8.4 but we’ve given it a half bonus point cause it deserves it.

Further Improvements: (Note to the developer!)

• Different sound effects
• Better backgrounds then just the plain ones now
• Storyline or some reward to get throughout the game

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