Kickin’ Momma sounds a lot more like a headline you wouldn’t want to read in your local paper. Or depending on how you feel about children, maybe you would. Joking. Instead, it’s actually an iPhone/iPad title that very competently challenges one of the most addictive casual games this side of Angry Birds: Peggle. In this bizarre clone of the wildly successful timewaster, you aid a decidedly un-beautiful monster momma put together a gorgeous piece of jewelry..by kicking her own children down into gem-filled pits in order to collect enough prized jewels to create something stunning.
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Review: Kickin’ Momma
On August 15, 2011
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Review: Dexter: The Game
On July 2, 2011
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Imagine your favorite TV show. Now squeeze everything you like about it into a neat little package suitable for a mobile device. Did you remember to include the stunning cast? What about the hilarious one-liners? Did you manage to get some high-key developers on board? As you can imagine, taking a hit television series and turning it into a viable video game requires quite a bit of planning, just like what’s required of lovable-but-incapable-of-loving Dexter Morgan. The smash hit Showtime series “Dexter” has been graced with its very own iPhone game, and from where I’m standing, it packs quite the punch. Admirably, Dexter the Game manages to fit all the atmosphere of the show into a handy adventure that you can take on-the-go. Who said major platforms should have all the fun?
Impressions: Devil May Cry 4: refrain
On February 22, 2011
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With EA and Capcom leading the charge in the race to successfully mimic console experiences on a handheld, it’s a great time for gamers who’ve never played some of their biggest releases in full fledged, home console form, which include some of their greatest hits. These experiences may not be perfect, but they’re certainly evolving and making progress, and this is clear in Devil May Cry 4: refrain, one of Capcom’s latest attempts to take a blockbuster console adventure and successfully miniaturize it. But the only question is whether or not the game itself survived the process.
Impressions: Dead Space (iOS)
On February 18, 2011
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For the most part, mobile ports of full-featured console releases irritate me. They hardly ever live up to even a third of what made the original games a success to start with. Combine this frustration with iffy touch controls and you have an overpriced, tedious little disaster of an app. Timed for release with its “bigger brother” version of anticipated sequel, EA’s mobile Dead Space for iOS devices (iPhone/iPod Touch version played) falls somewhere in between greatness and absolute mediocrity. On one hand, it accomplishes much for a “little brother” sized version of a popular franchise. On the other, it over-complicates things in such a way that strips the game of what made the bigger releases so darn fun in the first place.
Impressions: Pee Monkey Plant Bloom
On February 9, 2011
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Like it or not, you can’t deny the success of the wildly popular Angry Birds. You need only spend a few moments with it and then you can kiss a few sweet hours of your life goodbye. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll curse at little green pigs. And finally, you’ll look to the App Store for some decent, similar adventures when you’ve completed every single stage you possibly can. That’s where a quirky little game called Pee Monkey Plant Bloom comes in. You might be one to judge by its title, but there’s some good fun to be had in this strange little Angry Birds clone.