• Westward
• Personality
• The Fast and Furious: Pink Slip
• aMAZEing

Westward [iTunes Link] – [Screenshots]

Current Price: $4.99
Category: Games
Developer: Handmark
Current iTunes Rating: 3.5/5
Version Reviewed: 1.05

Synopsis: A very large game themed in the wild west in which you must control characters around a map to create settlements and battle.  Although I’m a fan of similar games like Civilization for PC, and other multi-unit strategy games, Westward bored me to tears to say the least.  There’s a whole multitude of controls and lots to do, and the graphics are quite nice for a mobile game yet still, it feels like a drag to play.

The Good:

• Quite large, lots of stuff to do
• Great starting tutorial
• Very stable
• Feels like a game you’d find on a real gaming system

The Bad:

• Huge drag to play
• I could hardly get past the tutorial before I was bored
• A few annoyances in the controls

Conclusion: If you want to give a game like this a try go for it, but I’m going to note that the five dollar price tag is quite steep.

Final Rating: 5.5/10

Personality [iTunes Link] – [Screenshots]

Current Price: $1.99
Category: Lifestyle
Developer: Signal Patterns
Current iTunes Rating: 2.5/5
Version Reviewed: 1.1

Synopsis:  Personality is an application that thoroughly tests your personality and gives hard studied results.  Not only is it a one-time test that you will only even use once and pass on, it’s also a whole resource on personality tests and psychology.  Besides the test it features a science page and a results page which explains all the different traits with text and video.

The Good:

• Tons of features, this isn’t one of those lifestyle apps that you’ll just use once
• A great science page
• One of the best personality tests I’ve ever seen (not just on the iPhone)
• Clean user interface
• In-app video’s rather than exiting to YouTube or Safari

The Bad:

• Unable to email results to others or yourself (or any other export way)

Conclusion: This is a fun app that is simply a steal for $1.99.  It’s great fun and quite accurate.

Final Rating: 8.9/10

Fast and Furious: Pink Slip [iTunes Link] – [Screenshots]

Current Price: $2.99
Category: Games
Developer: I-play
Current iTunes Rating: 3.5/5
Version Reviewed: 0.1.3

Synopsis: Yet another racing game for the iPhone, this one with the movie trademark attached to it.  Fast and Furious Pink Slip  is a very challenging racing game with great graphics and a unique feel to it.  There are multiple gameplay modes including a multiplayer session although some of the modes are quite useless.

The Good:

• Pretty good graphics
• Multiplayer mode
• Several different cars

The Bad:

• No real tutorial
• The “Quick Race” mode is actually called a Drag Race in which you do not control the cars steering, just it’s shifter

Conclusion: A decent racing game with a satisfactory price of $2.99.  They’re better racing games available though…

Final Rating: 7/10

aMAZEing [iTunes Link] – [Screenshots]

Current Price: $0.99
Category: Games
Developer: f-gap
Current iTunes Rating: 2.5/5
Version Reviewed: 1.2

Synopsis: aMAZEing is a maze solving game in a pure 3D environment.  Similar to Windows 98’s 3D maze screensaver but you get to control the point of view.  The objective is to find the amount of gems that you specify at the start in a maze (you choose size).

The Good:

• Able to slightly customize the maze at the start of the game
• Greatly demonstrates how the iPhone can be used to real platform gaming! (Tip of the hat to the developer!)
• Awesome control scheme

The Bad:

• Get’s boring fast
• Only one objective

Synopsis:  This is the start to what could be a very great game, in the mean time, search elsewhere…

Final Rating: 5/10

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The Stone of Destiny: You will enjoy this game to the end and over and over again.

The Stone of Destiny is a classic puzzle game in which you’re on a scavenger hunt to find a list of objects on a detailed photograph. This app was surprisingly addictive and although the storyline is very long and allows playing the game for days you’ll want to zip through it.  The objective is simple, go through a multitude of various locations, each with a different photograph with a list of “hidden” objects to find.  The game is similar to the children’s classic time killer “Where’s Waldo?“  To add some pizazz to the game, they’re a few mini games along the way between puzzles to get your cranium pulsing.

This app is extremely well developed and each photograph is detailed and challenging.  Although some little features are lacking here and there the developers executed an original concept perfectly.  To add some more enthusiasm to the game, a storyline has been added with clever comic strip like screenplays in between puzzle milestones.  The storyline is a perfect little children’s story that will entertain your children on top of the app’s gameplay.  A problem I had though, is that the game is too easy. Each level is timed but the time given is way more than enough, and you could probably solve the puzzle just by waiting for each available hint.  Difficulty levels should be added.

The graphics and user interface are great, as noted above, the photographs are very detailed and look generally perfect.  The storyline screenplays set the mood just right and each strip is excellently drawn.  The game doesn’t lag and has very few glitches.  Overall a superbly developed app.  If you’re a fan of hidden object games definitely check this one out.  Puzzle fanatics should also give it a go!

Final Ratings:

Gameplay: 8/10

Enjoyment: 9/10

Graphics: 8.5/10

Sound: 7/10

Technology: 7.5/10

Replay Value: 9/10

Overall Rating: 8.2/10

Further Improvements: (note to the developer!)

• Difficulty levels
• More mini games
• Pinch to zoom not a single toggle zoom button
• Sequel!

More screenshots here

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