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The Week In iPhone Apps: My Life Is Indistinguishable From The Sims [App Store]
Gizmodo —
... Isotope: A fantastic top-down, Geometry Wars-esque shooter, Isotope wins the day for its control scheme: direct your ship with a nicely-size left d-pad, and shoot in any direction with a second d-pad, which spawns wherever you plant your right finger. The ...
The Week In iPhone Apps: My Life Is Indistinguishable From The Sims [App Store]
IPhone news, updates and Iphone information —
This week, the App Store goes on a little gaming kick. Sort of like the real world. COINCIDENCE?!? Yes. It's not that there weren't a few cool iPhone announcements at E3—there were!—it's just that not much from LA actually made it to the App Store this week. Luckily, a few great ones did, along with some also-good, non-game stuff too. The Sims 3: It's not every week we get a full-fledged iPhone conversion game from a studio like EA, and it's even rarer that they're truly worth the price. Despite somewhat unwieldy controls and sometimes choppy framerates, the Sims 3 is one of the great ones. ...
Isotope : A Space Shooter review
TouchGen —
Isotope: A Space Shooter offers more than your ordinary iPhone space shooter Geometry Wars clone. It adds some much needed ship customization as well as letting you choose how to upgrade your skills. These RPG elements really lift and separate Isotope from an overcrowded genre.
Isotope is played in enclosed arenas where you have to start the action by triggering a portal. Once you do all hell breaks loose, and you find yourself swarmed by pretty much every type of enemy you might expect. Enemies shooting, enemies with radial damage and enemies who try to ram you. Once you killed them all you can progress to the next room in the arena. When a couple of ...
Article: iPhone Retro Gems: Isotope, Pinball Fantasies & Turn Turn Tank
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
Between true nostalgia for once-popular games and the willingness of some gamers to buy new releases that evoke the aesthetics or controls of prior-generation designs, retro gaming remains a compelling segment of the video game world. The line between games that rest on their nostalgic appeal and ones that are legitimately compelling to new audiences is a blurry one, and as the App Store continues to fill up with both ports of old games and original but retro-styled new ones, we find ourselves wondering just how mainstream or nichey many of these titles really are. [image] Today, we review three throwback titles, two of which are brand new with old-school graphics, while ...
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