Fly Kiwi Fly! for the iPhone and iPod Touch

We're starting the week with a fun, quirky app. in Fly Kiwi Fly! you take on the role of a kiwi with high hopes to not just fly, but to fly around the globe. Using a series of upgrades, including gliders and rockets, you pilot your bird further and further, earning more money to buy more items to fly even longer.

The graphics and backstory add a fresh, quirky feel to a familiar style of game. Here's a look at Fly Kiwi Fly!

3 Point Hoops for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

It's been a little while since we've posted an iPhone app review. I'd like to say we're back with a totally awesome app that will blow you away. Unfortunately, that's not the case. 3 Point Hoops is the most basic (but free!) of basketball games. You see the basket from different perspectives behind the three-point line, then flick your finger to shoot for the hoop. You don't receive much feedback beyond a quickly annoying announcer, and the simplicity of the game makes it wear of really, really fast.

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Marine Sharpshooter for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

I've tried on many occasions to enjoy the different versions of Silent Scope in the arcade. (And by the way, I'm the guy who actually uses the scope, rather than just cheating by looking at the screen, but I digress) While I want to like the game, I hate the quarter-sucking nature of the gameplay. Marine Sharpshooter brings a similar gaming experience to the iPhone for a fraction of the price.

While it lacks the complex scenarios of Silent Scope, Marine Sharpshooter is a decent accelerometer-based shooting game, using the a scope for your long-range kills. The plays gets a little monotonous after awhile and the music has a disappointing mono sound. Overall, not a bad shooter for the money.

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Data Hunter for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

With the opening scenes of Data Hunter, it appears you've stumbled upon a hidden gem of a game. However, once the game begins, you'll find that, for now, the best part of the game is already behind you.

On paper, Data Hunter has a ton of promise. It's a top-down shooter, with a storyline involving infiltrating a compound on an unknown planet, and retrieve data (data keys, cards, etc.) while fending off bizarre enemies. However the pacing of the game is quite tedious: there's a lot of walking around, without much happening. Your navigator back on the main ship is of little help, as her guidance is quite general, at times frustratingly so.

Add some maps for some of the levels, and amp up the action/activity while the playing the game, and Data Hunter has real  promise. That's not where it is right now though.

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iStunt Reloaded for the iPhone and iPod Touch Video Review

iStunt Reloaded is one of the many "careful-how-you-land physics" games for the iPhone. (You know, a CHYLPG). The thing that sets iStunt Reloaded apart is they have successfully found the right mix of difficulty and fun.

You pilot your snowboard down a hill, jumping obstacles, performing tricks for bonus points, and at times inverting gravity itself. When you go through the tutorial, they throw essentially everything you will encounter at you at once, and it seems a little overwhelming, but relax at start playing the game, and you'll find the obstacle pacing to be just about perfect.

A quick note that the gravity inversion feature can be turned off, and that's good: while it's fun the first few times, it can get frustrating to keep having to flip the phone, as the controls reverse (or, invert) in this mode.

It's a solid entry in a crowded field of similar games.

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