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Solitaire Classics Review

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Developer: ELECTRIC OYSTER
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.5
Device Reviewed On: iPod Touch

Graphics / Sound Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3.88 out of 5 stars

How many solitaire games do you have on your iPhone? Well, Solitaire Classics, from Electric Oyster, wants to entice you with their take, recently optimized for iPhone 4, on this cherished computer favorite. They offer a straightforward solitaire game that doesn’t innovate, but certainly aims to impress with a photorealistic look.

Solitaire Classics delivers three of the most popular computer solitaire varieties, including Klondike in both easy (draw one) and hard (draw three); Freecell, in only a single difficulty mode; and Spider in both easy (one suit) and hard (all suits). There’s also an unlockable bonus game. It’s enough variety to keep players satisfied.

Game play itself flows about how you’d expect a solitaire game to play. You move cards by touching and dragging them, or tapping playable cards to move them into place. You can zoom in and out as needed by double-tapping and move around the screen, which is definitely helpful when stacks get too long to fit on the screen. It all works just fine. Basic touch solitaire is pretty hard to mess up!

I will say that game play in Solitaire Classics is perhaps a little too stripped down. There’s no Undo button, for example, which seemed an odd omission. There’s no hint system, either, which is not necessarily standard on solitaire games but always welcome. Neither of these are major omissions, but it would be nice to see them in a future update.

Since there’s no real innovation in games or gameplay, Solitaire Classics invests all it’s real effort into presentation. They went photorealistic, with authentic playing cards, a wooden tabletop, and a yellowed, aged look. The menus and rules are even done up in this realistic style, made to look like penned-in notebook pages. It all looks really good, and its the one thing that’s going to distinguish this solitaire game from the other solitaire games out there. Their commitment to realism is such that they even offer a Shadow Mode, which places a shadow silhouette head across the playing table. It’s a pointless but amusing touch.

If you’re looking for a playable solitaire game with the most popular varieties, then you could do much worse than Solitaire Classics. It doesn’t do anything new with the genre, but its realistic presentation is really appealing. It’s worth look.

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Solitaire – ePageCollection.com

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ePageCollection.com Solitaire is the iPhone version of popular card game Solitaire. Some of the key features are as below,
1. Save Game: ePageCollection.com Solitaire allows you to save ‘entire’ solitaire game, along with ‘moves’ and ’score’ so that you can play it later, anytime you want.
2. Undo Feature: You can undo your moves to try various routes to solve the game, also there is no restriction on number of moves you can undo.
3. Customizable Deck: You can set any image as card background to have a look and feel as you like.
4. Card Zoom: When you lift a card from tray, it will be automatically zoomed for better appearance. You can set this zoom value to your comfort level.
5. Card Opacity: In ePageCollection.com Solitaire, after lifting a card, it gets zoomed, so sometimes it hides the background view. No problem, you can make cards semi-transparent, so that foundation and destination trays behind zoomed card(s) can be visible (refer screen shots).
6. Assistance: ePageCollection.com Solitaire provides you general indication of compatibility of cards for drop position, while you are moving the cards after lifting. The card tray on desk will glow green or red to indicate compatibility or non-compatibility of cards.
7. Sounds: ePageCollection.com Solitaire allows you to play the game with sounds to get better experience.
8. Real World Appearence: ePageCollection.com Solitaire uses images of wooden surface as desk and tray, along with beautifully designed cards that resemble real world pack of cards.


Four Card Golf – iPhone App Review

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Four Card Golf - iPhone App Review

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Four Card Golf (99¢)
Version 1.0
Review – “Fun and challenging card game on the go”

App developer: Bruce McLaren
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/fourcardgolf

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I’ve never played the card game Golf before, so going in I had to spend a few moments in the instructions screen figuring out the object and game play of this particular App. Luckily, the developer at the foresight to include detailed, but easy to understand, help and instructions on how to play Golf.

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fourcard 3 200x300 Four Card Golf iPhone App ReviewBasically it’s a card-swap game, where the object is to end up with the least number of points. Makes sense, and is rather easy. However, the game has several levels of difficultly, ranging from very fun, to really challenging. This App will help keep your memory sharp as the game play progresses, especially as at any time one of the other ‘Players’ can end the round.

Luckily, the App is created beautifully, the design and layout, the graphics and speed are all ideally suited to a medium-paced card game (however for those who need more time, or are quick thinkers, you can adjust the game play speed. One round of 9 ‘Holes’ can last from 5-10 minutes, I’d say. Ideally suited for a quick game during busy commutes or waiting in line at the post office, or what have you. For longer rounds, you can select the full 18 Holes and enjoy yourself for much longer.

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fourcard 4 200x300 Four Card Golf iPhone App ReviewAs it turns out, on my very first round I didn’t fare too badly, and came in second place. So although this game a little more complex than the average Solitaire game, it’s pretty easy to pick up on quickly. I’m sure after a few more tries I’ll come up with better strategies and hopefully my memory will be sharper too.

I mention Solitaire because this game is ideally suited to all of those Solitaire players out there who are looking for something a bit different, and for only a dollar, you really can’t go wrong here. The only feature lacking I’d say is a Multi-player element, where you can pass the iPhone around for others to be included instead of always having to play the ‘Computer’. There are lots of card games on the App Store to choose from, but if you’re interested in something that will keep your memory sharp and will actually challenge you again and again. You won’t get bored.

~ChantelleJoy
Tweet Me: @ChantelleJoytwt

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