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Pakoon 3 iPhone Game

When you see the words “Pakoon 3”, you’re probably going to immediately wonder where Pakoons 1 and 2 are. Thing is, there is no prequel to Pakoon 3, a game on the iPhone that could easily entertain you whether or not you’re on your break.

Now, there are plenty of genres of games running around. PLENTY.  Everything from mini-rpgs to highly complex puzzle games is available for people to play.  Free or costly, it’s there, especially if you’re savvy enough with Google to find the game that’s just right for you.

And then, there are the eccentrics who remember the fond glory days of a game called Lemmings, where you had to guide a bunch of mindless yet cute little critters to safety through a variety of increasingly convoluted methods.  Pakoon 3 is a proud member of that guiding little critters genre, except here, instead of green haired idiots, you get to guide super-cute widdle baby chicks. (They are freakin’ adorable, I’m tellin’ ya…)

There’s one massive difference of course – in Lemmings, we had plenty of tools to achieve the aforementioned hyper-convoluted objective of getting them to their safe zone.  Girders, ladders, parachutes – you’ve got plenty of options.  In Pakoon 3, you get a bunch of high explosives, limited in number for each stage.  Your objective is to clear a path for these chicks using these explosives.  Click onscreen blows stuff up.  That alone will probably draw in a crowd, actually, but again, you’re supposed to blow stuff up to clear a path.

If can explode, it will explode and if it can’t, it will merely be thrown far aside.  Physics also applies here, as objects above an explosion fall down.  As said before, the number of bombs that you can use varies per level, making the game a matter of figuring out which things to explode to make that critical path for your chicks.

Scoring, unlike Lemmnings, is a matter of doing things quickly. The nature of the game also implies that you can get stuck in a level, forcing a restart.

The iPhone version of this game is particularly rewarding.  For people who like to watch their budget, the fact that this fun game is free should immediately draw their attention and favor.  Another bonus is that the levels on this version are unique, so even people who’ve played an earlier version of Pakoon can find themselves in wholly unfamiliar waters.

If anything, the only flaw this game has is that it lacks replay value – once you know how to beat a stage, that’s pretty much it for that stage.  If we’re all lucky, new stages would be available for download, further extending and improving its worth.  Even without those extra levels, it’s still a good choice for entertainment on a boring car ride or a slow day.