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iPhone games can get confusing in that you don’t know when you’re getting a brand new game or an update to an old classic and Tornado Mania is one of those updated games. Luckily, like a good update, it distills all the good and puts it in a nice iPhone package. This makes it almost a different game all on its own, definitely worth a glance even if you’ve played the old version of Tornado Mania to death.

The lovechild of the Katamari games and the Simcity series, Tornado Mania revolves around questionable zoning and various human rights violations as you guide a man-generated tornado through a city or an area in an effort to get the best houses to make a supercity at the South Pole. The Katamari cue is first due to the controls – you don’t control the tornado traditionally as you only control the way the tornado spins. With a simple tap, you can change the clockwise spin into a counter-clockwise one.

The second Katamari cue is because you collect various houses and buildings through your tornado avatar, although not in the same way the ball in Katamari does. It is the first cue that gives Tornado Mania its unique difficulty level. Since you’re a tornado, you tend to damage things you pick up but with some carefully control and planning, you can actually and miraculously find that you’ve acquired a building with no damage at all – a rewarding experience in itself.

Of course, like any game that gives you unbelievable destructive power, Tornado Mania is rife with chances to cause untold havoc and destruction. It recognizes this temptation and in fact, it even encourages it in one of its game modes, aptly named Rampage. You get a set amount of time to wreck, devastate and destroy as many buildings as you can before the time limit expires. While you’re rampaging, you also need to avoid helicopters which are first, immune to your powers and are carrying what appears to be the tornado’s worst enemy, dry ice. It is a fun alternative to Utopia mode and all the building and care you need there, despite being one of the most feared forces of nature around.

For all its gameplay brilliance and fun, it does have a few faults. It loads oddly as if it was ported over oddly. While it doesn’t rob anything from Utopia or Rampage mode and is largely nitpicking, it does prove that it could have stood a little more time in the polishing stage. Other than that, it has definitely earned a spot in a lot of people’s iPhones.

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Peggle on the iPhone is actually fun. It doesn’t sound like fun to most men as it sounds too close to something they really don’t want to experience, but it’s nothing like that – in fact, it’s winning combination of intuitive gameplay, straightforward objectives along with multi-player makes it a great game to download and play on your iPhone.

Unlike many game updates, Peggle doesn’t rely on changes and distillation to make it a worthwhile iPhone game – it in [...] Continue Reading…

More and more remakes and sequels are coming to life as the years go by. So many games are coming out with their fourth, or even fifth iterations as if to say, no, we don’t need no stinkin’ new ideas and if it isn’t a sequel it’s probably a remake. This brings us to the topic of discussion, the classic puzzle game Myst and how it fares when you bring it to the iPhone.

Pretty good actually.

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It speaks for the activity’s fun when a person is glad that the video game is almost nothing like it and that’s what Flick Fishing for the iPhone makes one think. It distills all the tangled lines and worms and the like and leaves you with the heart of the fishing experience – the line, the reel and the beauty of nation. If you want some fishing on the road, you may want to take a glance at Flick [...] Continue Reading…

Epic Pet Wars goes against everything our parents ever taught us. We’re not supposed to like it when any living thing gets hurt. We’re not supposed to make animals fight each other, but lo, have times changed, especially on a digital level. Thanks to Pokemon, it makes perfect sense to some people to hurl trained animals into battle against each other and Epic Pet Wars continues this tradition.

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Web games have apparently gotten more exposure with the presence of a recession as for the most part, they are free. You don’t need anything other than a computer and an internet connection to enjoy them and now, an iPhone will do for most games. Many flash based web games have made the leap from desktop to handheld and now, Bloon is one of those games.

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Everyone’s probably played Monopoly at some point and for people who haven’t, the iPhone iteration of the game -Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition- is here to make sure they don’t miss out. While Monopoly has always been a fun game, the real question for veterans of the game is “How many times should they buy the same game?”

In fairness, Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition features some very notable updates, from changing the numbers involved in [...] Continue Reading…

The iPhone is quickly becoming more than just newtech – it’s making the move to try to become a miniature desktop computer, one that can play music, edit pictures and documents and even play games, some of which are fairly complex. Photogene is one of those iPhone apps that can bring photo editing on the road with you. Every now and then, you just want to touch something up before you send it to someone and Photogene can [...] Continue Reading…