This follow-up is well worth tearing a few follicles out over: physics-based puzzles in a wonderfully-realised 3D environment. The eighth incarnation offered more cars — 47 in total — nine locations to race them in, and a new emphasis on ramps, rolls and stunts hence the "Airborne" aspect and online multiplayer races for up to eight players at once.
The latest Angry Birds game was controversial for its enthusiastic adoption of pretty much every free-to-play gaming mechanic going, but underneath that is a genuinely impressive karting game with smooth handling, well-crafted tracks and familiarly-fun characters.
Even FIFA went free-to-play this year with in-app purchases to unlock all the single-player modes, and for packs of players in the Ultimate Team mode. Otherwise, it was business as usual: slick action, thousands of licensed players, and inventive touchscreen controls. The original Flick Kick Football was fantastic, but returned this year as a freemium game with a retro look, and an emphasis on team-building as well as goal scoring.
The gameplay was richer too: besides pinging shots you also have to master tackling, intercepting and passing. Another polished football game, with more of a focus on multiplayer matches as well as a single-player mode. As in its predecessor, it sees you trying to score goals by drawing lines for your players' runs, then hopefully flicking the ball into the net. A real tactical challenge. The latest mobile version of the world's best football management franchise adds more depth, a redesigned user interface, the ability to create your own club yes, with you as the star striker if you're in that frame of mind , and the ability to manage in more than one country.
Another game whose switch to freemium was controversial, but after some tweaks to its timers, Real Racing 3 really impressed. Dozens of cars, hundreds of events and genuinely console-quality graphics, plus clever asynchronous multiplayer races to compete against offline friends. Supersolid had a big free-to-play hit with Super Penguins, with Adventure Town the follow-up.
Familiar elements — build a town, harvest crops, compare with friends etc — have some neat twists and lots of gameplay polish. A cut above the FarmVille-style herd.
A game about forming your own band, training them up and aiming for the charts, mastering different genres and lyrical subject matter along the way. It's got similar addictive qualities to the games of Japanese developer Kairosoft — Game Dev Story being the obvious comparison. The most thought-provoking iOS game of by some distance, Blackbar takes censorship as its main theme: a collection of text-based puzzles with the titular black redaction bars providing the challenge.
Its storyline and themes stayed with me for weeks after playing it. Year Walk and this game made Simogo one of the most talented and intriguing iOS developers in Device 6 is part book and part game: an inventive example of interactive narrative deservedly singled out by a number of critics in their end-of-year best games charts across all platforms, not just mobile.
If you like a real challenge with your mobile games, then Frozen Synapse was a fiver well spent this year.
It's a turn-based strategy game originally released for computers, as you guide your squad through a succession of levels. As epic space adventures go, the Galaxy on Fire series is in the same space sector as Wing Commander and Elite. This new game was set in the Galaxy on Fire universe, but focused more on colonising planets and interacting with other human players.
Another game switching to freemium, but Plants vs Zombies 2 just about survived the transition: a strategic defence game where you fend off zombie hordes by placing plants. If your car strikes any object, like, buildings, trees, etc. An interesting feature of the game is that giant flail grows in size as you cause more destruction. For each destruction, points and money will be rewarded. In order to cause more destruction in the game, collect boosts. Boosts are the energy providers, which make your car immune to collision.
After collecting a boost, your car will start glowing and you will be able to destroy objects until boost lasts. Each boost lasts up to a few seconds. Press X for applying brake, R to restart a level, and Escape key to enter main menu. This game is good to study the behavior of particles of matter in free space. It features high-quality graphics and the real-time animations that run in this software are much better than that of The Powder Toy and PixelCosm Alpha.
It is one of the first Physics sandbox games that have an ability to show the life-like behavior of fluids and other objects.
Each of these graphics display different simulations of same elements. For example, Points simulates an element in a dotted form, just like an atomic structure, whereas, Crosses display simulation in pixelated form. If you select Blob, this free Physics sandbox game displays the realistic behavior of elements. Apart from this, it also supports gases.
If you place a heater on the interface and pour water on it, it realistically displays the evaporation process. It is actually a falling sand game which simulates different particles of matter. A brush is provided in the software, which lets you draw animation on the interface. As you draw particles on the screen, a very interesting phenomenon occurs.
The light particles fuse with the air. This seems like sparkling of crackers. There are many different particles and each of these differ in terms of physical properties.
The simulation displays the true characteristic properties of particles of different elements. For example, if you draw water particles in the empty space in the software, they fall down and spread on the ground and behave like a real fluid. Creating fire near the water particles causes evaporation and displays water vapors on the screen. Moreover, if you throw ice particles on the water particles, it freezes all the water particles. You can also disable gravity in the game. Toribash Toribash is a third-person martial arts fighting game that uses physics-based attacks.
The ragdoll physics allow the player to manipulate the joints of the doll-like character to make it move in certain ways. Toribash is an excellent example of a fantastic use of complex ragdoll physics when it comes to the gameplay. For example, thanks to the layered material system used, environmental objects of different materials show different reactions to an attack. Trials Fusion A platform racing video game, Trials Fusion is a follow up of the critically acclaimed Trials Evolution.
The level design, controls, graphics and the amount of content available are traits that have been praised by the gaming community. The physics-based motorcycle the player has to control in order to participate in the rounds of trials has very accurate responses to movement changes, landings and crashes, making this game a very good example of well implemented realistic controls. Full details of some of the planned improvements are in the about section on our Patreon page.
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