We still need to find some sort of header picture, but at least the coverage is still going 🙂 This week’s coverage features two games, but neither one is really a full review — perfect for Free Reign, eh? Waterslide Extreme Room Escape Waterslide Extreme Concept: Use the accelerometer to slip and splash your way […]
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Free Reign – Free iPhone Apps Roundup #7

Jul 18th 2009 by

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We still need to find some sort of header picture, but at least the coverage is still going 🙂 This week’s coverage features two games, but neither one is really a full review — perfect for Free Reign, eh?

Waterslide Extreme

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Concept: Use the accelerometer to slip and splash your way down a gigantic waterslide that happens to go right through a city. Watch out for the ducks.
Strengths: Great framerate; some really great views of the city, especially when the slide turns transparent; great sense of speed. Nine different stages.
Non-Strengths: Controls could be more responsive; some camera angles make the game rather dizzy-ing when you’re flying up an incline
Overall:  For $0.00, Water Slide makes a good little distraction if you’ve got 10 minutes to kill. There are points to collect, duck to avoid and…actually, I’ll just end this with the ducks.

Room Escape

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Concept: Take those point-and-click room escape games from the computer and re-create the experience on the iPhone.
Strengths: Really interesting background music (that’s not sarcasm)
Non-Strengths: A downright awful control scheme and presentation keeps this app from being any fun at all; UI feels sluggish, visuals (like the one above) are downright confusing, and you have no idea if you’re pressing on an object or a painted background item that won’t do anything.
Overall: Not worth your time unless it receives an update for playability.  It’s too bad, since this kind of Myst-like gameplay really shines on a touchscreen.

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