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Fat Jump Pro (By SID On)Developer: SID On Price: $0.99 Version Reviewed: 1.2 Download: here Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later. Located in the Warsow,Poland-SID on an independent mobile application developer has announced a recent update of Fat Jump Pro for the iPhone,iPad and iPod touch.Fat Jump Pro is a fast paced vertical arcade action for the iOS devices.Using the tilt controls the player must guide the jumping,little green hero (a healthy and crispy cucumber) up a never ending series of platforms... |
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Wednesday 21 December 2011
Toy Shot Review
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Toy Shot is a physics puzzler with a Lego-inspired graphic style and a huge dragon that destroys everything.
The problem with Toy Shot is this: the controls. Angry Birds needs to be appreciated for the high caliber of its controls; the player’s finger correlates directly to the angle and power of the bird’s launch, and the on-screen visuals represent that angle and power perfectly. It’s part of what has made the game so playable; it’s part of why the game is being played by hundreds of millions of people. Toy Shot makes it easy to set angle and power, and to see where the next shot is in relation to the last shot, but the aiming reticule is offset from where the projectiles actually launch. This means that shots require not just the typical adjustment for their physical location, but for the offset location of the cannon to the aiming area.
This makes the game more challenging to play than it really has any right to be; especially with the precision weapons that come into use like the darts, having a direct way to aim them is essential and the game doesn’t provide it. The game also lacks Retina Display support or any kind of native iPad app, which seems silly in this day and age. Really, with the control flaws, and with so many other physics puzzlers that aren’t as frustrating to control, why spend any time on this one? It’s not bad…but there are a million alternatives. Play one of them first.
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