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Supermarket Management HD Review

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Developer: G5 ENTERTAINMENT
Price: $4.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad

Graphics / Sound Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Game Controls Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Replay Value Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars

If you’ve played other time management games, then Supermarket Management HD, the new iPad offering from G5 Entertainment, will be instantly familiar. You control Kate, an aspiring supermarket manager who must race around a busy store, stocking shelves and serving customers to keep them happy.

Both the controls and the game play work the way you’d expect them to, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with either. By tapping on areas where tasks need completing, Kate goes to the area and accomplishes the task. Sometimes tasks require Kate to perform a skill of some sort, like building appetizers or selecting the right cake as it scrolls by. Scoring is based on how happy the customers are when they check out – the happier they are, the more money and credit coins are earned. The early levels are easy, and the customers are not that demanding; but later levels become increasingly chaotic. The best strategy is to keep Kate moving, to monitor the shelves at all times (empty shelves earn angry customers the quickest) and get everything done. G5 has done a decent job of keeping it balanced, so that while any level can become chaotic, it’s always possible to complete it. They even threw in some mini-game challenge levels to mix things up.

Visually, the main game looks okay. It’s done in a cartoon style that’s typical for these games, and there’s nothing to complain about. The comic book “cut scenes” are less accomplished, however, and accompanied by scripted dialogue that is both badly written and badly translated. Just skip through these and get to the next level — there’s nothing in them worth reading.

There’s no way to review Supermarket Management HD without comparing it to the Diner Dash series in its look, its controls, its game play, and even its comic book presentations; and in every category Supermarket Management HD feels like a copycat. This isn’t to say that task management games aren’t a dime a dozen in the App Store. But Supermarket Management HD just seems like a particularly obvious one, and one that does not do what some other copycats do: apply top-notch development to the imitation.

Overall, Supermarket Management HD isn’t a terrible game, but it is not a great game, either. If you’ve conquered Diner Dash, Diner Dash: Grilling Green, and Supermarket Mania, and you’re shopping for one more task management game to scratch that itch, then Supermarket Management HD might make you a happy customer. If you’re looking for something fresh, however, then you might get better service elsewhere, because this store’s shelves are empty.

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Hotly Anticipated OmniFocus for iPad Released!

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Ok, so maybe hotly anticipated is a little overstated for most people. But very understated for task management nerds like myself. OmniFocus for the iPad has finally made it’s way into the App Store and I couldn’t be happier! This amazingly detailed task management application has been my most anticipated iPad application since the announcement of the iPad.

OmniFocus is a powerhouse of a task manager. Providing great organization tools if you have lots of things going all the time like I seem to. The ability to quickly capture thoughts, ideas, and tasks and then organize them, track them, and now review them while on the go is invaluable.

This release of OmniFocus is a hybrid of sorts. Bringing more of the features of the desktop to the app than what we have with the iPhone version, while still focusing on what you need to help you get things done while mobile. The iPad version is focused on helping you capture information with it’s quick entry system, define that information once you have it, and then, of course, get it done.

Two big additions to the iPad version are the Forecast and Review features. Forecast lets you see, with a quick touch, exactly what you need to be doing and where you need to be today. You can also take a look ahead and see what’s coming later in the week. The Review feature is great for being able to do a quick check-in on all of your projects, figure out where they are going, and then update their status. Think of it as a quick-fire rapid card deck of your projects with you tapping yes or no on each one as they flip into view.

One of the things that sets OmniFocus apart from it’s competitors is the rock-solid syncing. Now with the addition of the iPad version you have three-way sync from your desktop, to your mobile phone, and to your iPad. You can keep all three in sync all the time, even when traveling.

OmniFocus for the iPad is available now, in the App Store, for $39.99. Some will consider this expensive, I consider it a huge value for all of the time it saves me.

To take a look at a quick into movie for OmniFocus for the iPad, take a look on the OmniGroup server or hit the jump for more screenshots from the app.

$39.99

OmniFocus for iPad

iPad Only App – Designed for the iPad
Released: 2010-07-30 :: Category: Productivity

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Zombie Wonderland Review

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Developer: Chillingo

Price: $1.99
Version: 1.0

Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 3.13 out of 5 stars

Another day, another zombie game in the App Store! This time it’s from Chillingo, and the title is Zombie Wonderland. With this game, Chillingo has attempted to blend some of the humor, action, and aesthetic of their popular Minigore with elements of task management and tower defense games. The result is as mixed a bag as the genres it borrows from, although it ultimately succeeds more than it fails.

In Zombie Wonderland, you play Chuck, a handyman for hire in a town suffering from a chronic zombie pandemic. Your job is twofold: stop the zombies from invading the premesis, and keep the place clean. If you do bit these things by sunup, you survive to work another nigh in one of four locales: a home, a bar, a garage, and a cemetery’s office.

The basic gameplay works fine. Each location has a number windows which you must defend. You can shore up windows with wooden boards (the zombies never go for the door) and defend the building with both your trusty shotgun and a single automatic machine gun. There are also chores to do, the main one being to clean up the zombie guts before the night ends. It’s a real mélange of ideas, and it much of it can be fun in little bursts. You’ll spend most of you time tap-mashing around the house, running from window to window and shooting what you see. Each night goes by so quickly that you won’t tire out before the cock crows and day comes.

Unfortunately, Zombie Wonderland suffers from that game-killing combo of brevity and repetitiveness. It is a short game; there are twenty levels across four locations, and although you’ll be playing some of those levels repeatedly (the last half of the game really spikes in difficulty), that doesn’t make up for the fact that there’s just not a whole lot of variety here. Each board is basically the same, and each level on each board is basically the same. You’re just doing the same thing, over and over, level after level: shoot zombies, board up windows, clean up guts, rinse and repeat. And you’ll be shooting the same limited zombie types over and over, too, with the same limited selection of weapons.

As I played, I could see where Zombie Wonderland drew inspiration from other, better zombie games, like Plants vs. Zombies and Zombie Smash, but both of those titles benefited from a huge variety of weapons, enemies, and challenges.

I want to give Zombie Wonderland a better recommendation. It’s got a fun idea at it’s heart, and I like the graphical look of it. But in the end, it lacks imagination in variety and level design. As such, my recommendation is tepid, although zombie fans and Minigore fans will undoubtedly get some enjoyment out of it.

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