![]() Here's more space-action, albeit this time not on Mars. It sees you bringing Mars back to life by growing plants and aliens, experimenting with different combinations to create an exotic ecosystem. Tiger Style's wonderful grow 'em up is included in the latest Humble Bundle (see earlier entry), but can also be bought on its own from the Google Play store. It offers 12-player online deathmatches, a good choice of maps and characters to play, and a hatful of weapons with which to blow the bejaysus out of rivals.Īndroid / iPhone / iPad Waking Mars (£3.15) This multiplayer third-person shooter is available for the first time on iOS this week, and emerging from beta on Android. This new game sees you building rollercoasters in 3D to satisfy customers, while unlocking pieces and cars to fuel bigger and better ones in the future. This new game comes from Frontier Developments, which has form having made RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 for PC back in the day. Our enduring fascination with theme parks and rollercoasters has made itself known in a variety of games down the years. It's actually one of the most relaxing-to-play mobile games released this year, in a good way. "Tetris in reverse" would be the high-concept pitch for this game, where you have to unpack lines of tetromino blocks from the sky rather than just slot them into place on the ground. Lots of customisation and social features provide depth to all this virtual pettery. ![]() The gameplay is all about breeding and raising dragons, before setting them racing to win prizes. It's a sweetie-themed puzzle game by which follows its Bubble Witch Saga onto the App Store: 100 levels, lots of power-ups, and friends' scores to outdo.īackflip Studios' DragonVale has been an enormous hit on iOS, but now it's available on Android too. Candy Crush Saga has been a big hit on Facebook, where it has more than 5m daily active players. If you missed its initial success earlier in the year, it challenges you to draw pictures to illustrate words, then watch friends try to guess them. It's been a good week for Windows Phone when it comes to well-known social games: Zynga has also ported Draw Something to Microsoft's platform. The hook, as on iOS and Android, is that you can be playing several separate games against friends at once, taking turns at your leisure. Zynga's popular multiplayer word-puzzler Words With Friends has made its way to Windows Phone, with Scrabble-esque gameplay that sees you making words from tiles. It's launched in closed beta, but invites can be requested from its official website. Well, the Niantic Labs division within Google. Here's a curveball: an ambitious location-based game with quests, codes and multiplayer features that gets you capturing real-world territory within the game. It may be an acquired taste, but fans won't be able to get enough. Sporting pixelly retro graphics, it's part RPG where you're exploring a magical land, and part WarioWare-style surreal mini-games – all with a focus on music. Now there's a new Skylanders game for iOS, which involves building your own Skylands islands CityVille-style, completing missions and – if you own the toys – importing those characters into the game.Īrranger is a quirky, musical mini-game collection that's fizzing with ideas. ![]() The XCOM series is the most apt comparison, and one that Hunters isn't overshadowed by.Īctivision's Skylanders have been a big hit with younger gamers (and have made a big dent in many parents' wallets thanks to their use of toy figures too). Ported from iOS, this turn-based strategy game puts you in charge of a team of mercenaries in the future, kitting them out and upgrading their skills for a series of missions, with a new one delivered every day. Pay more than the average price – $6.38 at the time of writing – and you get more games: Machinarium, Canabalt, Cogs, Swords & Soldiers HD, Zen Bound 2 and Avadon: The Black Fortress. This is a compilation of five Android games: Splice, Eufloria, Waking Mars, Crayon Physics Deluxe and a beta version of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. No price on this one, because like previous Humble Bundles, you pay what you think the games are worth. IPhone / iPad The Humble Bundle for Android 4 The spiffing motion capture and deep career mode are worthy of the praise. Here's this week's selection: Real Boxing (£2.99)Īlready receiving rave reviews from critics, Real Boxing is a beat 'em up starring beefy 3D boxers, gestural punching controls, online multiplayer features and lots of fighter customisation. Anyway, making the hard decisions to get that kind of longlist down to 30 is what this weekly post is all about.
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