• 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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Monospace: Fuel your iPhone addiction with multi-dimensional strategic fun

Monospace is a unique app never before seen in the app store. The 3D strategic experience is sure to give joy to any puzzle fan. The basic objective it to clear a 3D cube of all white mini cubes inside. To do this you must drag around a blue cube in between 3D and 2D environments. It might be a little confusing to begin with but the developers have made an awesome tutorial which will allow anybody to play. Now, saying that excluded the fact that this game can be extremely challenging with it’s four difficulty levels and 64 challenges to complete.

The developer has taken a creative idea and executed it into a sleek fun package.  Starting off fairly easy and quickly progressing to deep challenges Monospace is a perfect puzzle game for bright minds.  I’ll admit at first I had to force myself to play this app, but once I got on a roll this quickly became enjoyable and the 64 levels won’t go by fast (we could really use an undo button [grins]).  I can’t stress enough of the unique experience Monospace provides, you’re flipping around a 3D object and then zooming into 2D to solve the puzzle.  Some extra concepts like a timer, point system, etc… would be a nice touch.

Graphics could use a bit of improvement, can’t complain much some colour would be nice, maybe some background images and patterning.  Right now thing’s are looking kinda bleak and give a bad first impression.  User interface is fine, no complaints, works perfectly.  I haven’t come across any glitches, lagging, or crashing but I have heard of some mishaps going on, none that I’ve experienced.  Unfortunately, like many games, Monospace lacks many settings, in this case, any settings.  Talking about lacks, where’s the sound!?  No background music or sound effects!  iPod music is playable although it cuts it out at start.  You have to use the mini music player (double click home button).

All in all, if you’re looking for a never-before-done unique experience on your iPhone this is it.  Perfect for the puzzle and strategy lover.  I strongly recommend Monospace and $1.99 is perfectly priced.  Pick it up now

Final Ratings:

Gameplay: 9/10 – Absolutely great concept, some elements could be added but it’s a perfect start

Enjoyment: 8/10 – As said above, I had to force myself into this game but once I got in, I didn’t want out.

Graphics: 6.5/10 – Needs more colour and some patterning + background images.  Add more for your eyes to enjoy!

Sound: 1/10 – iPod music is playable so it gets a point.  Other than that, no sound.  We’re excluding this from the overall rating to keep accuracy

Technology: 8/10 – Everything runs smoothly and this shows some nice capabilites of the iPhone

Replay Value: 9/10 – 64 levels and oh so challenging, this is hard to put down

Overall Rating: 8.1/10

+1 Bonus point – Yes, overall rating is the average rating but sometimes we feel the app deserves more, so we give a bonus point or two!  Final Rating: 9.1/10

Further Improvements: (note to the developer!)

• Background images
• Patterning
• More colours
• Sound!
• Settings
• More concepts (noted above, timers, etc…
• Keep up the good work =)

More screenshots here

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