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Guide is now available at Hubpages: http://hubpages.com/hub/Steambirds-Strategy-and-Hint-Guide

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Finally beat 1946 mission with 4 stars, and this means ALL missions are now passed with 4-stars! One last general hint to share:  Turn to dodge!  you can turn faster than ANY enemy fighter, so you need to use that to prevent from getting hit. Enemy almost behind you? Turn! Enemy plane won't be able to make the turn and fly right by you. And this is how I beat 1946 in Steambirds... With a bit of

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General Tactics Find out who's chasing who -- enemy AI picks one of your planes to chase for each of theirs. Spread out and figure out who's chasing who so you can exploit this behavior with the subsequent tactics. If you have 2 or 4 planes, split up and down, then  if you have 4, split the north and south groups so they go at right angles to each other, and that should tell you who's chasing

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Your tactics will depends on what you have and what your enemies have. Let's discuss the common "special abilities' and how they can be used. * Shield -- protects the plane for ONE TURN from all hits, but cannot fire Shield is used to get BEHIND the enemy, esp. when combined with the U-turn. Use the shield to get through enemy fire, then U-turn and blast it from behind. Shield is also used to

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Was playing this game Steambird and got pretty addicted. I haven't gotten all 4 stars on all missions yet, but I am getting there. Here's a few hints for the players...   Special Abilities: * Shield -- protects the plane for ONE TURN from all hits, but cannot fire * Speed -- makes the plane 50% faster for one turn * Gas -- spreads green gas behind the plane for one turn, damage all who fly

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Sorry for the lack of update, but the next three reviews will be the final reviews for this blog. The reason is simple: I got a new phone. My LG enV broke. It still works, but the "joint" between the two halves have broken. So I got a Motorola Droid. In the future, I will probably post some Android game reviews, but then the title will change. For anyone reading this log, thank you for your

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Image via WikipediaOregon Trail is back with a new variation... the Gold Rush. People are going west to California for gold, and you're taking the overland route. How will you pace yourself, and what will you do along the way, so that your family (or as much of it as you can) survive the trip? How will you handle food shortage, wagon breakdown, emergencies, and so on? And how will you fare in the

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Image via WikipediaBioshock 3D is an interesting game, as it is a true 3D shooter on a cellphone. You can look up/down/left/right, even side-strafe and move back/forth. There are stairs to go up and down on, and you can even "crouch" to go through certain areas. The frame rate is rather lousy though, and enemies come one at a time, so it's a matter of figuring out where to go and how to defeat

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Image via WikipediaSorry for the lack of activity. One of my other blogs is taking up a bit of my time. This month, we have five games reviews coming up, and they are pretty good! BioShock 3D -- yes, there's a 3D version of BioShock for the mobile as well! Travel through Rapture, experience the slicer's howls, the power of the plasmids, and more... now in full 3D! Oregon Trail: Gold Rush --

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Image via WikipediaKitten Cannon is a copy of some Internet Flash-based "game" where you launch "something" and hopefully you get the most distance. However, it is not strictly trajectory that will give you the distance, but the random amount of stuff below the object. The objects can be deadly (for the object being tossed, and thus, stopping the progress, or adding additional bounce, or

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Image via WikipediaSchizoid is an odd game to describe. It is best to think of it as part Pac-Man, part tag. And it can be pretty darn frantic. Graphics are simple, but fancy in its own way. Overall, it achieves that it set out to do. Schizoid is a little hard to describe. Basically, you control the blue ship, and there's an AI controlled red ship that flies with you. Your objective is to touch

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Image via WikipediaCaptain Galactic: Space Hero from Digital Chocolate is another simple control, not so simple timing game that looks cute, and has some innovative mechanics. There's some corny backstory, but that's not the point of this game. The game is cute, interesting, and challenging. The backstory tells you how your avatar was some nerd intern investigating this super crystal when it

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Image by Snap Man via FlickrMini Gold Wacky Worlds, from Glu, uses their pretty decent 3D engine in a new way, and the result is quite pleasing. Mini Golf basically has you only using the putter, and play on 9 holes of interesting terrain. You rely a lot on bouncing the balls off the edges, and avoiding the special "traps" and such on the course, while go as few strokes as possible, just like

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Image via WikipediaZaxxon, the classic "isometric 3D" shooter, was brought back as a mobile game. Is it any fun? Well... sort of, but only in the nostalgic sense. For those who aren't nostalgic, Zaxxon is one of the first "3D" shooters, even though it's really 2D with isometric view. You pilot this space plane that flies through various space fortresses, moving up/down and left/right (your speed

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Image via WikipediaSuper Puzzle Fighter II is an offshoot of Street Fighter II. Instead of mashing buttons to get in your six different attacks and go for combos, you put down the "gems" on a playing field, and use the "break gems" to break as many gems as you can to 'attack'. You can play solo, but that is rather boring. The versus mode is a bit more exciting, as you take one the various other

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Image via WikipediaHere's some previews for the games that will be reviewed in February... Super Puzzle Fighter II -- Street Fighter II meets Tetris Zaxxon -- the original arcade game Mini Golf: Wacky Worlds -- 3D minigolf, almost like Tiger Woods PGA... Captain Galactic: Space Hero -- Very simple controls, very complicated timing gameplay Schizoid -- think of it as space-age tag and

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Image via Wikipedia Following are hints for playing Field Runners, the tower defense game. Enjoy! The enemy units will seek a path, but it will not see the most efficient one. It sees about 2 squares ahead. If you leave it a path ahead, and divert it off to the side, it will not see a path that is off to one side Your layout should emphasize putting in the most turrets, and the most powerful

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Image via WikipediaThe Wolfman legend is getting remade into a movie, and you KNEW there is going to be a mobile game as well, and Namco nabbed the rights. It is basically a platformer with some clever bits, and it has unlimited continues and checkpoints. So it is player-friendly, but it is actually not THAT interesting overall. The plot is your typical wolfman legend. You were investigating

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Image via WikipediaiShoot is basically a slightly more professionally done version of Scorched Earth / Artillery for the mobile. Play with up to 3 other humans (hot-seat) or AI (total of 4 tanks) and shoot at each other with other weapons. Start with 15000 and buy various weapons to shoot at each other with. Go through 5 (or more) rounds and see if you can win the "tournament". Use winning to buy

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Image via WikipediaBioshock gets adapted to mobile, and for the most part, the game's spirit is preserved, though it feels quite a bit simpler, and shorter. Also, using the environment is minimized, and there is no watching the two sides fight and you pick off the survivors. It is also short, as it ends right where Atlas found the sub destroyed by Ryan. There supposedly will be a part 2 and

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Image via WikipediaIt's 25th anniversary of Voltron, and now we get a Voltron mobile game. It's basically controlling the lions one by one, then every few stages you do the "boss fight" as you fight the robobeasts with Voltron. It's not that bad, but it's not that GOOD either. The game is basically two games in one: an isometric "shooter" where you control the lion, and a 2D fighting game where

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Image via WikipediaUpcoming reviews of mobile games include: Voltron -- yes, the lions are back in a mobile game Bioshock -- yes, that became a mobile game as well iShoot -- Scorched Earth on a phone, basically The Wolfman -- is this movie tie-in going to be any good?

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Image via Wikipedia HMFH is basically a puzzle, despite the word "frantic" in the title. It's cute, and it can be quite hard as you need to learn how the game thinks. The plot is simple: you need to help a "harvest fairy" harvest as much as possible. You can move some tiles around. As the fairy harvests, the adjacent squares gets "irrigated" (i.e. watered). A square needs to be irrigated up to

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Image via Wikipedia This movie tie-in game is not bad, and somehow makes more sense than the similar Avatar movie game. You get a 2D game that's semi-isometric and is a combination fighting/shooting game (depending on if you're playing Holmes or Watson). Then every once in a while you do this "coach driving" where you need to dodge Blackwood's henchmen, environmental hazards, and basically get

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Image via Wikipedia Field Runners is tower defense for the mobile phone. With 3 maps, 3 difficulty levels, and 100 levels each of different enemies, this game is fun, though not quite as polished as the other tower defense games. Nor is it as campy as "kill all bugs". Thus, it is not quite as good as it can be. The game gives you three maps: grasslands, which is your normal one-way-in

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Image via Wikipedia Gameloft turned Avatar game into a mobile game. Unfortunately, what this really is is Super Mario with a few bits of 1942 thrown in. It's really not that interesting, and the gimmicks isn't that involving. All in all, it's not that good. In Avatar (mobile), you play the game two ways: a regular 2D side-on platformer (i.e. Super Mario) where you control JakeSulley, the Na'vi

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Image via Wikipedia Doom 2 RPG is both MOTS (more of the same), and yet it is a lot more. You get to play through this game now with THREE viewpoints: major, scientist, or sarge. While they go through the same levels, the tactics will be slightly different. There are more cinematic "cutscenes", presenting more of a story. There are now sentry drones, which you can control to fight or explore.

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Image via WikipediaMore previews of upcoming reviews... Doom 2 RPG: Is second time even better than the first time? Avatar the mobile game: the movie is a definite WOW. But how about the game? Field Runners: another defense tower game... how well does this run? Sherlock Holmes the mobile game: is this movie tie-in passable, or just lousy? Harvest Moon Frantic Farming: can this cute puzzler

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Commandos is an old EIDOS 2D game that basically is a combat-oriented puzzle. The mobile version did not change much. The idea is command a team of different special operations soldiers in WW2 in enemy territory, performing various missions of sabotage, assassination, espionage, and such. The problem with this game is that the missions are too long, and lack of mid-mission save, makes the game

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Image by railsr4me via FlickrTricky Tracks is basically a puzzle where you have to "rotate" the different pieces of tracks to form a route for the train to go. The complication comes in that you may have to perform changes on the track WHILE the train is still moving (on a different part of the track)! What's more, there are also "switches" to play with as you try to manipulate the route of the

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Image by Colony of Gamers via Flickr Saboteur is a WW2 game where you play one of the resistance fighters taking the fight to the Nazis with your fists and some know-how with explosives and such. You will NOT be wielding guns (until the finale), as this is NOT a shooter. This is like Splinter Cell or Metal Gear, but in WW2. There are also console and PC version of this game. If you play the

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Image by J0nB0n via FlickrBlademaster is a new "action RPG" from MinorAxis, a South Korean developer that is doing very good work adapting games for their market to American markets. These games are full-fledged RPGs with large maps, plenty of quests, lots of items, TONS of monsters to kill left and right, and three classes of weapons to master (slayer [big sword], regular sword, dagger) plus

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While the title sounds like fun, the game is actually a "hidden objects" game pretending to be an adventure game. The game makes a joke of FBI, as these FBI agents break laws left and right, even overseas, and basically behaving like a couple idiotic criminals. The writing is lame, the scenario is lame, and the game itself is also lame. If you want hidden objects, you can do better than this.

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Image via Wikipedia Taito's Cooking Mama is one of the first "cooking sims" which basically have you repeat a bunch of keypresses, meant to simulate cooking on a console. It has since spawned multiple clones on the mobile, but also made its own way to mobile. Is it any good? Not really. You see, the game lacks instructions, for at least some of the events. The "stir fry" event, for example, is

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Tony Hawk's VERT is a cartoony skateboarding stunt arcade game, combined with a "photo shoot" minigame. It is a pretty good game giving you a taste of the skateboarding scene using the "standard" U-shaped ramp, but presented in a cartoony way. You start with just one venue, each venue has different events. The first event you have is the tutorial, which is pretty much 'follow the instructions',

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Image by pdgibson via Flickr This game is not really about your typical soapbox racer, but rather a combination of keypresses. It's cute, it's customizable, but is it really soapbox race? I dunno. At least it is based on a real event. When you begin, you need to customize your racer in terms of suspension and speed, durability, and such. The options doesn't seem to make THAT much of a difference

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Image via WikipediaAnd there are a LOT of titles! Let's do a record... EIGHT games! Red Bull Soapbox Race -- ever want to play a game of soapbox racer on a phone? Neither did I. Tony Hawk's VERT -- a cartoony Tony Hawk game for the mobile Cooking Mama -- is a cooking game actually any fun on a keypad? Conspiracy Theory: Area 51 -- a "find the items" game with a non-sense plot Blademaster -

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Image via Wikipedia Cro-Mag Rally is badly named. While it's supposed to be a "rally" using "primitive" vehicles, it is really "Mariot Kart" in pre-historic drag. You run around a circuit, and collect various "powerups" which you can shoot at fellow racers, any way to get ahead. There are only like 6 tracks, and 4 or 5 vehicles, and controls are a bit sensitive. You "can" skid in a corner, and

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Cover via Amazon Scarface: Last Stand is a cover-and-shoot shooter adapted to the cellphone. As the title implies, this is based on the final shootout at the end of the movie Scarface. Basically means you hit 0 to dodge, then 1 through 9 (in a 3x3 grid) to "shoot" at the enemies. You shoot lots of thugs, who will be shooting and throwing grenades and/or rockets at you. Try to shoot them in

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World Crisis is a turn-based strategy game where you must advance your faction's agenda on the continent through any means necessary: military, economy, or diplomacy. In other words, it's a standard 4X game, shrunk to the mobile, and it's a pretty decent game in that regard. You can choose from any of the three factions available, each with a bonus. Iron guard, for example, has a +2 bonus to

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife P51 is a tie-in mobile game to the CGI movie "Planet 51", and it's a simple platformer that basically have you playing the two main characters as they try to resolve their own issues, jumping from house to house, collect some parts, avoid the, uh... whatever police and military, and get the poor sap to his capsule and go home. It doesn't seem that interesting

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Image via WikipediaPlanet 51: On the run -- can Planet 51 be a fun platform game? Or is it a real stinker of a game? World Crisis -- can a turn-based strategy game work on a mobile, or is that doomed to failure before it starts? Scarface: Last Stand -- how does a duck-and-shoot shooter work on a mobile? And it is any fun to play? Cro-Mag Rally -- is this prehistoric racer any fun or is it a

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Image via Wikipedia Actually, the real title is "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Force Recon", and while it's marketed as COD:MW 2 mobile, it is actually completed UNRELATED to COD MW2. This is a normal 2D shooter with a completely unrelated story line. As a 2D shooter, it ain't bad, but there's nothing special about it, but it has a lousy storyline, and takes liberties with so many realities it's

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Image via Wikipedia Assassin's Creed II (3D) mobile is a fun little action number that's very similar to Prince of Persia (3D), considering that it's from the same publisher: Gameloft. The action this time is just as interesting, and this time the writers linked in more historical figures, such as the Medicis, Da Vinci, and more. The 3D engine this time allows more acrobatic moves, and a bit

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Image via Wikipedia Spore Creatures is a variation on the Spore theme. In Spore Creatures, you play this "adventure" game where you decide you want to be nice or nasty, and basically "explore" this island, while gathering more and more DNA for your creature, get a collection of "parts", and decide on the eventual shape of your creature. Spore has you start as a simple critter. You explore the

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Image by ktpupp via Flickr GT Racing: Motor Academy is another variation of GT Racing from Gameloft. This time, they decided to go for more of a Gran Turismo feel. The result is a pretty good driving sim that's more on the realistic side than most. Add a dozen cars, 6 tracks, 4 levels of "license", quite a few race types, and the result ain't bad! Motor Academy gives you one car to start (a

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Image by Crowhand via Flickr Deer Hunter is one of those programs that you didn't know people would actually buy for the PC. It was cheap to develop (reputedly for less than 50000 USD) and at $20 it was far more palatable and mature than those kiddie games to adults. And thus it started a "hunting game" subgenre from the shooters. How does this version fare for the Mobile? Quite well, but in a

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ESPN Homerun Derby (just "Derby" from now on) is a fun little game that does manage to teach you a little bit about baseball, and the multiplayer mode really puts it over the top. Except for the occasional graphics glitches, it may be one of the best mobile games available, even though it looks very childish. As the name suggest, in Derby you are participating in a homerun derby event similar

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And yes, SIX previews this time!!!!! ESPN Homerun Derby -- is hitting homeruns fun? Are you good enough? Kinda comical, but it works online with most WAP enabled phones Deer Hunter 3D -- is this Deer Hunter the best ever? Is that good enough? GT Racing: Motor Academy -- will you play a 2D-ish clone of Grand Turismo, on a mobile phone? Spore Creatures -- Original Spore Mobile is a bit passive.

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Image via Wikipedia Addiction has a cute name, and is interspersed with a comic book story about some cliche alien invasion, but it is actually just a variation of Puyo Pop, which is itself a variation on Tetris. As such, this game is derivative, but can be challenging. The concept behind addiction is that you drop 2 attached balls, maybe different, maybe same colors. You can rotate the balls

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Image via Wikipedia The South Park gang is here for a game... That makes fun of Japanese game shows, general American culture, and just about everything else they can, including offending a lot of people! The problem is the gameplay is unforgiving, and thus frustrating, and even the presence of "achievements" doesn't really help the game that much. If you dig that type of humor, AND have the

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Image via Wikipedia Breakspin mumbles something about the war between light and dark in a 2D universe. What it REALLY is... is a new variation of Breakout, where the "bricks" are round, often require multiple hits, and they explode in pretty confetti fashion. And there are random "creatures" that move about the playing field. Thus, the game is really quite derivative, though it is somewhat fun

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Image by Roscoe Van Damme (In Memory of Maureen) via Flickr Silent Hill Mobile 2 is another chapter in the psychological horror adventure. The idea is you are somehow caught between two worlds, the real world, and the "other world". The only way you will find out what is going on is to figure out how to travel between the two, then explore one world for items that can be used in the other world,

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Space Mountain Image via Wikipedia Disneyland Kart Racer is a very derivative product... It's basically Mario Kart on Disney-esque tracks, with Disney characters, and not the usual ones you'd expect either. Instead, they had to do with the famous rides. The camera is horrendous. The controls are weird and unresponsive, and the result is a kart racing game that's both good and bad at the same

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Image by Joe Penniston via FlickrAnd here's are just a bit of the taste... Disney Kart Racer -- will you play a Kart Racer (like Mario Kart) with characters based on Disney rides, not the FAMOUS Disney characters? Silent Hill Mobile II -- will you be scared by a game on a cell phone? Or is this medium not scary enough? Breakspin -- breakout variation described as war between light and darkness

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Image by Sam Judson via Flickr Cataan: First Island is based on the classic boardgame "Settlers of Cataan". You play against up to 3 other AI players, gather resources, build roads and settlements, rob each other with "the robber", trade resources with each other in other to do the other activities, and try to accumulate 10 "victory points" to win the island. The graphics are functional. I have

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Kill all Bugs! is an adaptation of the "tower defense" genre where you are tasked to defend the cities from giant mutant insects by building various defense towers (gun, laser wall, stun, napalm, missile, generator) of varying costs. The game play is classic, but the variation is pretty good. The game gives you 21 missions rather than infinite number of levels,

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Image by wallyg via Flickr While the name says Sherlock Holmes, and the stories are adapted from some of the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, the game is actually a "find the differences" and "find the hidden objects" game, where you need to locate the differences or all the objects named without spending too much time at time. The locations do match up with the various stories somewhat, but

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Image via Wikipedia Maple Story is one of those cute Asian-style 2D "action-y" RPGs that were quite popular. Unfortunately, it seems that nobody actually TESTED the playability of the game on a real mobile, making the game almost unplayable about half way into the game. You start as a pretty wimpy warrior, no specialization, just a 'club'. There's some bleh plot about your parents are missing

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Image via Wikipedia House M.D. is about a cranky but very good doctor in a hospital saving patients, giving life's lessons and learning a few at the same time. So does it translate into a game? Sort of. You may think this is a medical diagnosis game, but in reality, this is a puzzle in the vein of Clue or Inspector Parker. The game has four difficulty levels: Clinic, Intern, Resident, and

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Image via WikipediaHouse M.D. -- can you make a game about a bunch of doctors without needing any medical knowledge? Maple Story: Warrior -- would you really want to play Maple Story on a mobile? Sherlock Holmes Classic Cases -- does finding hidden objects really count as "solving" a case? Kill All Bugs! -- tower defense, giant insects menacing mankind, what more can you ask for? Cataan:

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Image via Wikipedia Ah, Carmen Sandiego, a game that has introduced a generation of kids to computer learning. The premise is simple: As the newest detective of ACME Detective Agency, the chief has summoned you to an urgent request... something was stolen in Paris and you need to go find it! Thus started the quest for you... The mobile version is a fine port of the game where you will learn a

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Image via Wikipedia "Cops" is obviously trying to evoke the "feeling" of the TV show, and has a lot of LAPD trivia, but it is NOT really based on LAPD, more of "inspired by". It definitely tries to be all things to all people, with a bit of puzzle, bit of run-and-gun, a bit of driving, and bit of adventure. You play as multiple officer: a veteran, two rookies, and a plain-clothes detective.

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Nissan GT-R  Image by Getty Images via Daylife NFS: Shift is yet another game in the NFS franchise, and this one gets away from any sort of street racing and more inline with NFS: ProStreet, where all the racing are on sanctioned courses. However, NFS: ProStreet mobile was badly tuned and WAY too easy. The mobile version of NFS: Shift is much better, as it is based on the graphics engine that

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Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Zombieland's premise is simple enough... land overran by zombies, and the few survivors scrapping out a living by salvaging what they can and kill zombies in the meantime. Zombieland itself is an action game that features a relatively novel interface... two separate fire buttons for attacking left or right, and ability to move in one directly while attacking in

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Crazy Taxi (console)  Image via Wikipedia Crazy Taxi (CT) is a third-person driving game where your objective is to deliver a lot of people who need rides to their destinations. During the trip, you can perform stunts and dangerous moves which will net you more $$$. The objective is to make as much $$$ as possible within a time limit. There are several time modes (fixed time limit, or every

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Crazy Taxi Logo Image via Wikipedia Crazy Taxi -- is this just as fun on a mobile, or is it a poor conversion that doesn't do justice to the original? Zombieland -- is smacking zombies with various weapons is your idea of fun, then this is your game, with a unique control interface! Need for Speed: Shift -- buy this mobile racer if you like the game genre, really. You won't regret it. Hall

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Image via Wikipedia BODY { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } P { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } DIV { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } TD { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } Red Alert is one of the best alternatively history RTS games on the PC, where Einstein went back in time to kill Hitler, and managed to start the Cold War early, except it got hot, and strange weapons like

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Image via Wikipedia BODY { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } P { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } DIV { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } TD { FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma; FONT-SIZE:10pt } RE: Uprising is an isometric action/RPG where you control Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy as they attempt to survive the zombie onslaughter caused by yet another outbreak in Raccoon City, dodge "Nemesis II

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Nitro Street Racing 2 is a sequel to the origina NitroRacing by Gameloft, and this time, it truly is MOTS (more of the same), albeit tweaked. The result is a decent racer, but with "city scapes" and some sort of choice when it comes ot the actual route, that made it a combination of most racing games. The end result is a bit of chop suey: a little of everything,

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Image via Wikipedia Madden NFL 10 is mostly the same game as the previous one, but tuned to be a bit more realistic, more backoffice options, and slightly better graphics. It is still the best American football game on a mobile, bar none. For those who haven't played Madden NFL 10, this is a full 3D game very similar to the version available on the consoles, as least superficially. The

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Image via WikipediaJust in time for Labor Day... More mobile game reviews! Madden NFL 10 (mobile) -- Does Madden still reign supreme on the football game front? Or is this just MOTS (more of the same)? Nitro Street Racing 2 -- can a basic 2D racing game actually feel like a city, complete with missions, races, a plot, upgrades, and more? Command and Conquer: Red Alert (mobile) -- can you

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Image by TCM Hitchhiker via Flickr G.I. Joe the mobile game is technically a sequel, not a tie in. You're playing Duke, Ripcord, and Scarlet chasing down Destro and more stolen arms and whatnot in a 2D game that plays either as a platform game (where move through the level like Super Mario [tm]) or a 2D top-down shooter (1942 [tm]). Is it fun? I don't know. It just feels so... derivative. In the

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Image by Getty Images via DaylifeG-Force is a Disney movie about a bunch of rodents trained as secret agents. The game acts as a prequel, where the crew gets some Virtual Reality training. It is basically a "group-based puzzle", where each member is good at one thing and you have to cooperate in order to solve things. It is a cute 2D puzzle with some "flow puzzle" thrown in as "hacking" sequence.

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Image via WikipediaKMGR of Spy HunterSpy Hunter was an arcade classic as it tapped into the James Bond mentality of gadget cars with lots of weapons shooting bad guys. However, it came out decades ago. The new version is not bad, except for the wrong orientation, and you get an alternate version as well. Not too bad for an overall package...Spy Hunter is a vertical shooter. You control a

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Image via WikipediaWatch out for reviews of the following mobile games:Hollywood Hotel -- at the Hollywood Hotel, you will find full of puns, caricatures, and much more. At its heart, it's an isometric puzzle...Spy Hunter -- is this latest mobile port more James Bond or more Get Smart?G-Force -- the Disney CGI movie is cute, but is the mobile game any good? G.I. Joe -- the special UN strike team

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Image via Wikipedia99 Ninjas is a platform game where you play a ninja with graphppling hook, throwing star, sword, crounch, jump, wall climb, and so on. While the tutorial levels are quite educational, the game simply has too many things for you to learn overall.In the first tutorial level, you get a lot of chance to learn wall-stand (like Spiderman, resting on a wall), as well as grappling hook

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Image via WikipediaAh, 1942... One of the better known arcade games from Midway... Control one of the best allied fighter plane and shoot your way across the Pacific and destroy the Japanese Navy after Pearl Harbor. Now that it has gotten a mobile port, is it any good? Unfortunately, no, at least not this particular version.1942 is a vertical shooter... You "fly up" the screen, enemies come down

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Image via WikipediaStratego Fortress, despite the name, has nothing to do with Stratego (tm) at all, nor does it really have anything to do with a Fortress. Instead, this game is basically a "random exploration" game that has you doing trial and error, and that is not a GAME, but rather, dice throws, with none of the charm of a puzzle.Imagine this: the playing field has 3 "levels", the higher you

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Image via WikipediaCastle of Magic is at its heart a simple platform game like Super Mario. This "castle" or "magic" had little if anything to do with the game. The levels are not too bad looking, but there really isn't anything beyond a normal "platform game". It's colorful, but beyond that, nothing much.The backstory is kinda silly. A couple found this treasure box. it opened and kinda sucked

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Crash Car Mania is probably inspired by Flatout's "driver launching" sports, but they turned it into something else instead. You move along the track, hit controls keys at specific times as well as launch, control the driver during flight (and hit more targets), keep flying to another vehicle and so on untilend of course, and try to score the max points. It is way too reliant on timing, and its

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August has started, and here are some previews of upcoming reviews!Crash Car Mania -- semi-inspired by Flatout's "driver toss" games, this combined timing puzzles with driver toss, car stunts, and driver stunts, with a bit of environment interaction, in a semi-3D environment...Castle of Magic -- console platformer comes to the mobile... but is it really magic? Or is it just Mario in magic cloths?

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Image via WikipediaGreen Goblin and others have broken out of Triskelion, and they are messing up Manhattan, home of Spiderman! Parker / Spiderman must beat a ton of evil minions, jump and web his way through the missions, and defeat the super-villains! This is basically a beat-em-up, with bonus stuff thrown in, and it's a pretty good one, with good graphics, action, and other things. This could

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Image via WikipediaMedieval Total War is a part of Total War series that is both a strategy game as well as a battle simulation. Now that it's been ported to mobile, how did it fare? Quite well, but I am not sure about the game as a mobile game, and a huge bug almost sinks the game. The result is a game that only appeals to grognards (i.e. wargame fans) instead of most phone owners.The port, as

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Big Range Hunting 2 is a hunting sim that gives you multiple locations hunting multiple types of game, be it predator, prey, or just birds. You can even fish in this game and be a completely sportsman. With four locations, multiple missions per location, some random exploration, and infinite free play, this game gets the right balance between "rail shooter", deer hunter, and a more complicated

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Image via WikipediaYes, a bonus update... more previews for July!Big Range Hunting 2 (Gameloft) -- hunt predators, prey, and birds, plus angling for big fish at four locations around the world. Is this just glorified Deer Hunter? Or is this game actually fun?Medieval: Total War Mobile -- Medieval Total War made it to mobile. Command one of the six factions and conquer Europe using both diplomatic

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Image by Rickydavid via FlickrZenerchi Puzzle Energy is one of those puzzles that manages to get it just right, so you can't stop playing. It is based on the standard "match-3" formula that made Bejeweled and variations so easy to pick up. yet it manages to add its own twists, as well as various power ups, and introduce them in such gradual manner that eases the learning curve. This puzzle game

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Image via WikipediaYeti Sports Volume 1 is mobile adaptation of some of the Flash-based games you've already played online. They are basically time-based single-button games. They are somewhat charming... for about 15 minutes. Then they become horribly boring. Probably more suitable for kids.There are four games...Pingu Throw -- a penguin jumps off the ledge, and the yeti have to "bat" the

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Image via WikipediaThe movie-tie-in mobile game for Ice Age 3 doesn't really follow the movie, nor was it actually much fun. And the introduction of artificial time limits and lack of "direction" makes the game a lot less satisfying than it should or could be.Basically, you play Buck or Sid as you run around the map, trying to collect dino eggs and nuts for Scrat. Sid gets ability to throw some

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Image via WikipediaYes, lots and lots of previews to come! Okay, just three, but I need to cut back after that SIX-GAME session. Ice Age 3: Rise of Dinosaurs Mobile Game -- is this mobile game worthy of your gaming dollars? Or is it more like the dinosaurs: extinct?Yeti Sports Collection Volume 1 -- Yeti games, which involves a Yeti abusing a bunch of penguins, has made it to the mobile. Is it

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Image via WikipediaCash Cab is a Discovery Channel program that chronicles the host, who drives a cab in New York, randomly pick up passengers, and ask them if they wish to participate in a general trivia contest. The mobile game captures much of the same spirit within reason, though I do wish they be a little more faithful to the show.The objective is to accumulate as much money as possible

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Image via WikipediaVerizon Racing Championship is actually a slightly modified and rebadged version of EA's NASCAR '09 (mobile), which was reviewed earlier. Instead of real NASCAR numbers, colors, and drivers, you get names like "Go Kart George", "Speedy Sam", or "Blazing Billy". Otherwise, the controls and gameplay is identical. The game still has its charms, but why buy this generic stuff when

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Image via WikipediaGreat Legends: Vikings is a standard "beat-em-up", in the vein of Double Dragon or Vigilante in the arcades. It really isn't much else, and that makes it sorta, well, boring.You play Odin, one of the Viking gods, who has moved to human form in order to escape a curse about death of gods. Even in human form, he must wield his axe and defeat various form of evil to eventually

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Image via WikipediaThe movie tie in for the CGI movie is interesting. You play both Carl and the scout as you try to get your house over a series of dangerous terrain, using a bit of physics. The unique controls are interesting, but some sections are way too hard.The controls are a bit weird. Basically, Carl and Scout are "dragging" the house, which is floating via balloons. However, you can "

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Image via WikipediaFlatout is probably the game that launched the "race and wreck" genre, that later includes the Burnout series. Now that it's finally made its way to mobile, does the mobile retain the flavor? Sort of. However, the weak AI means the game isn't really that good.Flatout mobile is a 2D racing game more in the spirit of "Sprint". You drive one of 5 vehicles (only 2 available at

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Image via CrunchBasePrizePlay games lets you win "tokens" for more plays, and possibly prizes. The problem is, in trying to fit in the game, they seem to have lost the meaning of the game.You see, you have to pay "tokens" for each play, and the game is Battleship, where you lob shots at the enemy map, trying to hit ships. However, they have to throw in trivia, which has nothing to with Battleship

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Image via WikipediaBattleships PrizePlay -- play for prizes is a good hook, but can you really win something in this game? And it is any fun? (Puzzle/Trivia)Up (mobile game) -- Up the movie is great. But is Up the game any good? (Action)Great Legends: Vikings -- is the game all bark and no bite, or will you truly feel like a plundering Viking (Beat-em-up)Verizon Racing Championship -- race cars

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Image by brianjmatis via FlickrSims 3 for mobile is fun game by itself. It is only isometric, but it seems to have captured the Sims 3 spirit. You'll have a lot of interaction with other sims, and lots of minigames, from fishing to cooking to repairing. It's a lot of things to do, but then, that's life, isn't it?Basically, you get to pick your avatar, with customization of hair, skin color, shirt

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Image via WikipediaMetal Gear Acid is a weird game... It features Snake as normal, as it IS a Metal Gear game, but the game mechanics is TURN-based. Yes, you read right... turn-based, and is based on a deck of cards. Yes, cards. However, it does work, and the result is a turn-based tactical stealth game that is, well, very interesting.At the beginning of the story, terrorists have hijacked a

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Image via WikipediaWhile the description make it sound cool, the actual description will leave you severely disappointed. GL:M is about the Minotaur, which is supposedly a beast that is so powerful and can't be killed, it was imprisoned in a maze. You get to penetrate the maze, avoid all the nasty stuff within, and save your girl, basically. In Ancient Greece, no less. While this sounds exciting,

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