Review – Avernum: Escape From The Pit for iPad
Avernum: Escape From The Pit is probably the most classically designed and executed role-playing game out of all the RPGs played so far in my recent review series. It is the one iPad game that looks and acts like a tried-and-true RPG one would play on Windows 95 or an early Macintosh computer. Unfortunately, that’s...
Review – Order and Chaos Online for iPad
Following the success of the RPG, or role-playing game, another form of gameplay decided to take things to the next level: the MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online role-playing game, which allows groups of users to meet together in a virtual world and collaborate on missions, trade and barter, or just goof around for awhile. Some of...
Review – The Bard’s Tale for iPad
The RPG, or role-playing game, has become one of the fastest-growing game genres on the iPad. Gone are the days when it was simply enough to hack and slash at fruit or jump doodles; nowadays, even mobile games can be expected to have a plot, character development and satisfying action. But the real question is:...
Review – The Rebus Show for iPad
Before sudokus, crosswords and Angry Birds became popular forms of puzzle-based entertainment, there was the Rebus. Dating back to the Middle Ages, rebuses are allusional devices that use pictures to represent words or parts of them. They were originally used to represent people’s surnames and tell stories during a time when a majority of the...
Review – Lume HD for iPad
In the world of iPad gaming, puzzle games still hold the spotlight. Oftentimes, more casual iPad users prefer puzzle games; because, unlike more involved games such as Sid Meyers Pirates! and Grand Theft Auto III, puzzle games are much easier to pick up, play and then ignore. It’s a more passive type of gameplay, which...
Review – The Sims Medieval For iPad
I am a huge Renaissance Faire geek. Seriously. I’ve jousted, courted and costumed it up with the best of them. I even have a real sword. So I was very excited to find out that the latest addition to The Sims empire, The Sims Medieval, was coming to the iPad. Considering how much I loved...
Review – EA Board Games for iPad
EA Board Games: I love board games. I started playing Scrabble with my family when I was six. Since then, I’ve played just about every board game known to man, including the game of Law School — which everybody but me hated, but I fancied myself quite the legal jargonist back then. So when I wanted...
Review – Endure 3D for iPad
Endure 3D is a free-running game that attempts to bring the exciting, fast-paced world of parkour to the iPad, much in the way Mirror’s Edge did for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 back in 2008. Unfortunately, while Mirror’s Edge was a thrilling no-holds-barred adventure, Endure 3D is kind of boring. (...)Read the rest of Review...
Review – The Lighthouse HD for iPad
The Lighthouse HD is a seafaring path-drawing game that pits the player against whirlpools, giant squids and his or her ability to multitask. The second iPad game produced by indie company Kavcom Limited, The Lighthouse HD is a well-designed and exciting game that doesn’t bog the player down with convoluted plot devices or logic. In fact,...
Review – LostWinds for iPad
LostWinds for iPad, originally a 2008 WiiWare release for the Nintendo Wii, is now available on mobile platforms. Despite the game’s appearance, music and otherwise gorgeous presentation, it appears to be more successful for the Wii than the iPad – primarily in terms of how difficult the controls are on the mobile version. (...)Read the...
Review – Dead Space for iPad
Let me start this review by saying I am not a fan of horror or gore. Seriously. I have such a sensitive constitution, there is literally a medical term for it: vasovagal syncope. If I see too much gore, violence or scary things, I pass out. It’s happened several times; once when I was watching...
Review – Infinity Blade II for iPad
Infinity Blade II, the newest offering from Epic Games and ChAIR Entertainment, is a fascinating look into the future of the iPad as a gaming platform. It combines amazing graphics with player speed and accuracy, putting it on par with many of the $40 games currently on store shelves. That being said, it isn’t perfect....
