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Get Table Football Action On Your iPhone With Foosball
Get Table Football Action On Your iPhone With Foosball is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
The World Cup may have ended, but that doesn’t mean you can’t keep the FIFA fever alive.
Developed by Illusion Labs, Foosball is a table-top football (soccer) sim for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Featuring head-to-head action against the computer with 3 different difficulty levels as well as a multiplayer option (two people on the same device), Foosball is a great little pick-up-and-play game for fans of table football.
With full support for the iPhone 4 retina display with utilization of Open GL graphics, Foosball is easily the best looking game of Foos I’ve seen on the iPhone to date. Great game physics and realistic sound effects round out a solid package.
Foosball is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and requires iOS 3.0 or later. *Foosball HD is also available for the iPad.
Friday Five: June 18th, 2010
Friday Five: June 18th, 2010 is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
It’s Friday! Hurray! Of course, for me it’s summer vacation and Fridays aren’t quite as exciting. But, we’ve still got our traditional sampling of delightful new releases from the past week, so that’s something. Big names like ngmoco and Illusion Labs make an appearance this week, as well as a few more mainstream companies like ESPN. Enjoy!
Godfinger
Godfinger from ngmoco allows you to build up a little world of cartoony followers and exert your godly powers on them. In Godfinger, you can be a kind, caring deity—performing Wonders and helping your civilization prosper—or a wicked demagogue, leaving a path of destruction in your wake. You can control sun, rain, lightning, floods, and fire. As you play Godfinger, your actions shape the terrain and your populace’s opinion. It’s almost ngmoco’s answer to Pocket God. Go on, give it a try and test out your godly abilities…Godfinger, like many of ngmoco’s newer games, is free.
FREE!
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-17 :: Category: Games / Action
Geometry Wars: Touch
Geometry Wars was already a classic Xbox game, but it made its iPad debut back in March. Now, it’s a universal app, meaning that iPhone and iPod owners can get in on the action! Geometry Wars is a simplistic arcade shooter with basic, geometric graphics and a strong retro theme. It also was one of the first major games to make good use of the dual-stick shooter system that’s so popular on the App Store today. The iPhone/iPad version also includes a brand-new mode, Titan, in which you gradually break giant foes apart into swarms of smaller pieces.
$4.99
+ Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2010-04-01 :: Category: Games / Arcade
ESPN Pinball
In honor of the World Cup, ESPN has a released a pinball app with some football-themed tables (ahem, soccer for us Americans). There’s also a Basketball table. The new pinball app is full of flashy graphics and boasts pass-and-play multiplayer, global and local leaderboards, and voice-overs from ESPN Sports Center host Jay Harris. It’s a marriage of a TV network, sports, and pinball…if that sounds a little strange, well, it is, but the game looks like some solid pinball fun nevertheless.
$3.99
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-14 :: Category: Games / Sports
Onion News Network
Where would we be without the Onion? In case you haven’t heard of this magnificent publication, the Onion is a completely satirical news network with both an online and a print publication. (Yes, that’s right: you can get a real Onion newspaper.) Their stories are funny, witty, snide, and clever; you’d be crazy not to enjoy browsing them. The Onion’s new app gives you mobile access to the entire Onion archives, including both textual stories and videos. There’s not much more to say: it’s a typical newspaper app. The only difference is that the Onion is anything but a serious, esteemed publication. It’s here to make you grin, and, perhaps, think.
FREE!
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-06-11 :: Category: News
Foosball HD
Illusion Labs has long expressed an interest in touchscreen gaming on larger screens (think back to their tabletop demo of Touchgrind) and now they’ve released an impressive iPad-only title: Foosbal HD. Foosball HD takes full advantage of the iPad’s large screen, transforming it into a top-down view of a foosball table designed perfectly for “local multiplayer”: both you and your friend just play foosball! You can also play against the computer, of course, but multiplayer is the real draw. Foosball seems like a natural fit for the iPad, and it’s great to see Illusion Labs putting the iPad to good use. Sorry, iPhone users; this one isn’t for us.
$2.99
iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-06-11 :: Category: Games / Simulation
[ Friday Five: June 18th, 2010 is a post from 148Apps ]
Foosball HD from Illusion Labs Released
Real Foosball
Real Foosball is a post from: Best Iphone App Review Website
Developer: HTHSoft
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 2.0
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 2.0
Graphics / Sound Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
iPhone Integration Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 0.5 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 1.67 out of 5 stars
It’s rare that I come across an app or game so bad that it’s nearly unusable…but Real Foosball is simply horrid. The controls are horrible, the physics are weak, and the game as a whole just needs to be avoided. Enough said. Read on if you must, but the bottom line is that Real Foosball feels like an unfinished, barely functional prototype.
I absolutely love Foosball in real life, so I was excited to try Real Foosball. Instead, I was greeted by a maddeningly confusing, muddled mess. “Real” Foosball is anything but realistic. Let’s begin with the touch control scheme, which works by moving your finger over the rods. When using touch controls, the rods move too quickly, jerk around, and often snap back to their original positions when you let go; meanwhile, the animations flicker confusingly.
The other control option is motion controls, which suffers from an opposite problem: it’s excruciatingly slow. On top of that, there isn’t any calibration option, so you’ll need to tilt your iPhone at ridiculous angles (often losing sight of the screen!) in order to play with motion controls.
The game, of course, works like any normal Foosball game; you can set the number of goals necessary to win, and then it’s a simple battle to see who scores the goals first. Here’s a hint: given the control scheme, it will probably be the computer. There’s no original twist, no gimmicks, no added features to try and make the game more exciting or long-lasting.
Graphics and audio are merely mediocre; the menus in particular show a lack of attention to detail, and the fonts and colors used for the text just scream “I’m unfinished.” And as if I needed more evidence of the developers’ carelessness, there’s no save or auto-resume function. Accidentally hit the home button? Congratulations: you’re back to the start page with no records of your game. Not that it really matters; after all, there aren’t even local leaderboards or a records page, so who cares if you were doing well?
Under normal circumstances, an app like this wouldn’t even warrant a review. But, hey, might as well warn you folks, right? Do you wallets a favor, and stay away from Real Foosball. Sometimes I wonder if Apple’s review team will ever stop blocking things like Google Voice and get rid of games like this instead.