Moto X Mayhem for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

It can be tough to review a game that I, as the reviewer, am terrible at playing. Despite the laughable video below, I can appreciate the addictive play, fun audio, and solid graphics of Moto X Mayhem: an iPhone version of a similar flash game. It's a seemingly simple game relying on gravity acceleration and braking to keep you from flying off a motorcycle and becoming a pile of bones:

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Here's a look:

Doppelganger for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

As a kid, I was a big fan of the Concentration-style board games: flip over a card, then try to find a match by flipping over another card. Make more matches than the other players, and you win! Doppelganger brings the same kind of play to the iPhone. Doppelganger is fast-paced, pairing a certain number of cards with a maximum number of missed matches per round. Do well (especially on the bonus rounds) and you'll have more chances on the higher, more difficult levels.

It's fast-paced, simple, and addictive.

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Here's a look:

Crazy Pirate Slots for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Why go to Vegas when you can have the slot parlor right on your iPhone!? There are nearly as many variations on slot machine games for the iPhone as you would find in an actual casino. Today we take a quick look at one of them: Crazy Pirate Slots.

No "multiple line" play here: this is straight-up match-three slot action, with a fun pirate theme, and a pirate who encourages (or discourages) you along the way. Here's a look:

Hotel Mogul for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

We can't all be Paris Hilton, so here's your chance to be a Hotel Mogul. Hotel Mogul plays like SimCity, with you controlling building, repairing, and buying properties to meet specific revenue/hotel goals on each level. Be sure to take the time to go through the tutorial to better understand how to build and upgrade your properties. You get a fun game, in which before long you start caring about your properties, and want to experiment to see how you can get your hotels built and profitable as quickly as possible.

Here's a look:

Labyrinth 2 for the iPhone and iPod Touch

The 1970's. Curly hair, pet rocks, and those wooden marble maze games. I'm sure there's a pet rock app somewhere on the app store, but you're on your own for the curly hair. However Labyrinth 2 brings fun, modern twists to a game classic.

Labyrinth 2 combines the simple get-the-marble-from-point-a-to-point-b concept of the original game, and combines it with unique extras like pinball bumpers, marble-killing cannons, and activated doors. If it all sounds like too many bells and whistles, for the traditionalists, there are plenty of game levels that are more in keeping with the physical game. 

Speaking of levels, there are plenty built into the game, but you can also download additional levels from other players, and purchase free packs from the developer as well.

Overall, a solid app that shows the creativity you can bring to a game "ported" from the physical world to the iPod Touch and iPhone.

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