Best Windows Phone 7 Apps » Games Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:50:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Bump Out: fun WP7 board game /2011/11/bump-out-fun-wp7-board-game.html /2011/11/bump-out-fun-wp7-board-game.html#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:42:36 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2255 Bump out is a fun board game which is getting a lot great reviews on the Windows Phone 7 App Marketplace. Be warned: this is not a soccer game, but a puzzle one: you have to clear all the colored soccer balls placed on the board on each level.]]>
Bump Out (Free)
Bump out is a fun board game which is getting a lot great reviews on the Windows Phone 7 App Marketplace.

Be warned: this is not a soccer game, but a puzzle one: you have to clear all the colored soccer balls placed on the board on each level. Hitting the balls makes one of the two flying off the board; hit them all until there is only one.

Clearing the board requires strategy: the balls can only move horizontally or vertically on the board and you might remain with no moves left and still a lot of balls on the board. The handy undo option will help you backtrack your moves though, making most boards not frustrating.

Bump out has 150 Levels with a level-by-level mode and a timed mode; the boards are interesting and should keep you intrigued for a while. Graphics are basic (especially on menus) but do the job.

Bump Out is a recommended pastime for your WP7: check it out.

Bump Out (click to open in App Marketplace)
Genre games Rank 243
Rating Avg. 4 Stars # Reviews 163
Price Free Version 1.1
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Clowning Around for WP7: cut the clown ropes! /2011/11/clowning-around-for-wp7-cut-the-clown-ropes.html /2011/11/clowning-around-for-wp7-cut-the-clown-ropes.html#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:30:41 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2250 Clowning Around is a smashing new game for Windows Phone 7 - fun and catchy, it is destined to climb the App Marketplace charts! The circus is on and the clowns and are making their dive-in-a-barrelnumber, but… there are chains holding them and trampolines, traps, man-cannons and all sorts of obstacles.]]>
Clowning Around ($ 0.99, Trial)
Clowning Around is a smashing new game for Windows Phone 7 – fun and catchy, it is destined to climb the App Marketplace charts!

The circus is on and the clowns and are making their dive-in-a-barrelnumber, but… there are chains holding them and trampolines, traps, man-cannons and all sorts of obstacles.

Cut the clowns chains with the right timing and get them to the right barrel. Green clowns go in the green barrel, blu clowns in the blu ones and so on… you get the idea.

If you don’t want to spend the $1 right away, you can try Clown College as a warmup. It’s free and it gives you the first 15 levels for free. But, trust us, you will want to pay the $ 1 for the extra levels right away.

Clowning Around is just a gorgeous game, already a success on iPhone and Android is now delighting your Windows Phone.

The graphics are top notch, but the music jingle is really annoying: do your ears a favro and turn it off, it will ruin your experience.

Ace Viral got the inspiration from Cut the Rope, true, but mixed in multiple elements that will make it as fun and even more challenging.

Clowning Around (click to open in App Marketplace)
Genre games Rank 1258
Rating Avg. 4.5 Stars # Reviews 148
Price $ 0.99, Trial Version 1.0
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Crazy Casino for WP7 /2011/11/crazy-casino-for-wp7.html /2011/11/crazy-casino-for-wp7.html#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:32:28 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2245 Jake Poznanski, the developer of WP7 best sellers, incuding Solitaire, Mars Runner and Word Search, is back! Crazy Casino is a simple casino game with Slots and Video Poker.]]>
Crazy Casino (Free)
Jake Poznanski, the developer of WP7 best sellers, incuding Solitaire, Mars Runner and Word Search, is back!

Crazy Casino is a simple casino game with Slots and Video Poker.

The gameplay is simple but entertaining just right: the chances of winning are high enough to keep you going and low enough not to get dull.

As you play, you earn tokens to unlock more slots and different poker game types. There is not too much brain to apply here, though: spin the wheel or hold the higher cards and tap again.

Graphics are super-solid (as usual), but sound could be better.

Crazy Casino is cute and fun game, but does not have a lasting appeal due to the limited modes available and its simplicity.

The author is synonym with solid games on Windows Phone 7, and the game is free, so you should definitely give it a tap.

Crazy Casino (click to open in App Marketplace)
Genre games Rank 24
Rating Avg. 4.5 Stars # Reviews 305
Price Free Version 1.0
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Chromatic: energetic vertical shooter for WP7 /2011/11/chromatic-energetic-vertical-shooter-for-wp7.html /2011/11/chromatic-energetic-vertical-shooter-for-wp7.html#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:07:53 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2230 Chromatic is the latest addition to the not so-crowded category of vertical shooters on WP7, and it comes down with a bang! Waves of enemies of different shapes and colors come down the screen while you defend the bottom with your lonely gun, which fires shots in every direction you can tap.]]>
Chromatic (Free)
Chromatic is the latest addition to the not so-crowded category of vertical shooters on WP7, and it comes down with a bang!

Waves of enemies of different shapes and colors come down the screen while you defend the bottom with your lonely gun, which fires shots in every direction you can tap.

You have a selection of different gun types: from the basic pistol to lasers, mines, spread guns, freeze and missile). Guns level up the more you use them, and you can equip multiple ones for specific battles, switching among them as you go – in our gameplay sometimes the guns got activated without control, though, which was somewhat annoying in the harder levels.

Gameplay is hectic and exciting; multiple waves of enemies come down really fast, forcing you to multi-tap and to make quick decisions on which enemy to take on first as well as which weapons to use.

Both game art and music are great, especially the gameplay music, which will ring in your head for quite a while after playing; social gaming features such as leaderboards complete a very solid package which gave us quite some fun.

The developer, StackPop Studios, offers Chromatic in a free version as well as an ads-free paid one, and we recommend you to give it a whirl – check the gameplay video below!

Chromatic (click to open in App Marketplace)
Genre games Rank 144
Rating Avg. 4.5 Stars # Reviews 235
Price Free Version 1.1
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Chromatic (click to enlarge)
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Tangled Birds: free cute birds on WP7 /2011/10/tangled-birds-free-cute-birds-on-wp7.html /2011/10/tangled-birds-free-cute-birds-on-wp7.html#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:00:19 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2219 Untangle cute singing birds on your WP7 and set them free to fly! Tangled Birds is a fun little un-tangling game for WP7. Similar to The Jumble, the goal is to untangle birds that are tied together, but here, as soon as a bird gets all his ropes straight, it flies away...]]>
Tangled Birds (Free)
Untangle cute singing birds on your WP7 and set them free to fly!Tangled Birds is a fun little un-tangling game for WP7.Similar to The Jumble, the goal is to untangle birds that are tied together, but here, as soon as a bird gets all his ropes straight, it flies away, leaving less spaghetti-mess on the screen for your cleanup. On the other side, as time goes by, more birds show up with more strings attached to their chirping red fellows.

So it comes down to timing: you play against the clock trying to untangle birds faster than they tangle up. A game can be very long if you are fast enough – leaderboards show games with several hundred birds freed which require quite some time – and at the same time challenging and fun!

Game Art is good but not great with mixed colors (especially on the menus) and music is anywhere between funny and annoying (it can be either one, based on your taste and mood).

Tangled Birds is free – go check it out on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.

Tangled Birds (click to open in App Marketplace)
Genre games Rank 154
Rating Avg. 4 Stars # Reviews 66
Price Free Version 1.0
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Monster Stack for WP7 /2011/10/monster-stack-for-wp7.html /2011/10/monster-stack-for-wp7.html#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:15:32 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2205 Physics games are taking over Windows Phone 7? Well, after Physi Bricks, (which we reviewed last week and is now number 2 on the marketplace!), is now the turn of Monster Stack to climb the charts!]]>
Monster Stack (Free)
Physics games are taking over Windows Phone 7? Well, after Physi Bricks, (which we reviewed last week and is now number 2 on the marketplace!), is now the turn of Monster Stackto climb the charts!This time you have to build, rather than destroy: the game starts from an empty board with static pegs (boxes, triangles, circles or crosses); you have to build a house-like construction with small monster-like pieces of similar shapes. Build the house with all the pieces without letting the monsters fall!

The physics engine is good, the game is fun and the level progression pretty adequate: first ones go in a breeze, but the last few require thinking with trial and error attempts. Right now there are 25 available levels plus an additional pack which is “coming soon”.

Monster Stack is the fourth game of the series for Health Pack Games, what is striking is that this game is free, but it has all what’s needed to be an awesome paid game! Art design is beautiful, gameplay is enticing and music is entertaining!

But wait… there’s more! There is a level editor to create your own levels! And social game features such as achievements (scoreboards are coming soon…).

We thanks Health Pack Games for such a beautiful, FREE, game!

Monster Stack (click to open in App Marketplace)
Genre games Rank 437
Rating Avg. 4.5 Stars # Reviews 48
Price Free Version 2.1
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Physi Bricks for WP7 review /2011/10/physi-bricks-for-wp7-review.html /2011/10/physi-bricks-for-wp7-review.html#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:37:41 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2186 Physi Bricks (Free) Physi bricks is a fun little physics based game, like many coming out these days on WP7. Your goals is to send the green bricks off the screen, while keeping the red ones on, using a variety of balls, including small and big stone, exploding, imploding and inverse gravityamong others.The game is [...]]]>
Physi Bricks (Free)
Physi bricks is a fun little physics based game, like many coming out these days on WP7.
Your goals is to send the green bricks off the screen, while keeping the red ones on, using a variety of balls, including small and big stone, exploding, imploding and inverse gravityamong others.The game is fun and catchy, but very short, there are only 30 levels to go through, and since the game will intrigue you, they will go by fast. Also, sometimes you complete a level by chance more than by strategy, hey but this is true also for big casual games like Angry Birds.The graphic style is not bad, but could use more personality. A nice touch by the developer Stiq Joy is the video walkthrough published on their site. If you get stuck: go herebefore quitting.Overall Physi bricksis a good physics game that will get your attention for the short time required to finish it… until the next upgrade!
Physi Bricks (click to open in App Marketplace)
Genre games Rank 9
Rating Avg. 4 Stars # Reviews 17
Price Free Version 1.1
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Angry Birds Uncovered for WP7 Review /2011/09/angry-birds-uncovered-for-wp7-review.html /2011/09/angry-birds-uncovered-for-wp7-review.html#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:09:54 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2141 If you are still trying to get 3 stars in every level of Angry Birds, or trying to beat the last pigs bunch, this app will save your thumbs.]]>
Angry Birds Uncovered (Free)
If you are still trying to get 3 stars in every level of Angry Birds, or trying to beat the last pigs bunch, this app will save your thumbs.Angry Birds Uncovered is a simple app that will show you videos of how to get the maximum score in the top mobile game of the year. A menu allows you to select episode, world and level and then displays the helping video that will show you the right way to get the precious 3 stars.The app is free, but a lot of the screen real estate is used for ads, maybe too much. Anyways, the app is useful, unless you want to search for online walkthroughs and you tube videos – which is not easy on the phone.

Go get those last achievement points on Angry Birds using the Uncovered option -

Note that there are 2 versions on the marketplace, the free one – reviewed here – and a paid version that for $ 1.49 will give you no ads, full screen videos and written walkthroughs. Unfortunately the paid version does not have a free trial…

Genre Games Rank 67
Rating Avg. 3.5 Stars # Reviews 114
Price Free Version 1.1

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SteamBirds for WP7 review /2011/09/steambirds-for-wp7-review.html /2011/09/steambirds-for-wp7-review.html#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:47:28 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2079 SteamBirds is a clever flight combat game with a strategic twist: it is turn based! Ported from iOS and Android where it had a good success, the game is also available online in Flash version at steambirds.com.]]>
SteamBirds ($ 1.99, Trial)
SteamBirds is a clever flight combat game with a strategic twist: it is turn based!
Ported from iOS and Android where it had a good success, the game is also available online in Flash version at steambirds.com. Don’t be fooled though, the flash version is much less immediate and enjoyable than the phone version.
The gameplay is centered around air battles: you control one or more airplanes and determine their next move: you can fly in a direction, accelerate, turn around, execute an evasive maneuver and so on. If an enemy plane comes in sight, your plane will immediately start firing and taking it down. The best strategy is to fly around your enemies and stick it to their tail: they will go down in a snap…One of the best parts of the game is the local multiplayer, with a friend you can have lots of fun chasing and shooting each other passing the phone back and forth.The free trial version has only a handful of levels, but it gives a good idea of how the game plays – check it out.
Genre Games Rank 524
Rating Avg. 5 Stars # Reviews 44
Price $ 1.99, Trial Version 1.0
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Orientile review: connect the dots with style on WP7 /2011/06/orientile-review-connect-the-dots-with-style-on-wp7.html /2011/06/orientile-review-connect-the-dots-with-style-on-wp7.html#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:17:00 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2024 Beautiful Mind Games publishes another great little game this month and is an immediate hit.]]>
Orientle (Free) [New+Cool]
Beautiful Mind Games publishes another great little game this month and is an immediate hit.

Orientile is a puzzle game: you connect the dots with lines on a board, when you close a two by one square you can claim the enclosed empty tiles and play again. The player that controls the most squares at the end of the game wins.

The authors of Quadrata and Triangula created another beautiful game with Orientile: the art and design is just great, we loved the quality and overall care and production level that this game shows: the menus, the board, the characters the sound effects, all is made with great style.

The best part is that the game is also fun. The single player is challenging, the opponents are smart and have different style of play, but all are tough to beat and require focus and plan-ahead attitude. The local multiplayer is possibly the best part of this game: allowing two friends (or parent and child) to spend some good time playing together in a sophisticated version of tic tac toe, if you will.

Orientile is free and should not be missed in your tap-library – check it out.

Genre Games Rank 447
Rating Avg. 4.0 Stars # Reviews 38
Price Free Version 1.1

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Angry Birds landed on Windows Phone 7 – Review /2011/06/angry-birds-landed-on-windows-phone-7-review.html /2011/06/angry-birds-landed-on-windows-phone-7-review.html#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:51:56 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=2006 At last, after a series of (good) clones including Pandas vs. Ninjas and Chicks’n’Vixens, the original Angry Birds comes to close the Must Have Windows Phone 7 Games for this summer...]]>
Angry Birds ($ 2.99, Trial)
At last, after a series of (good) clones including Pandas vs. Ninjas and Chicks’n’Vixens, the original Angry Birds comes to close the Must Have Windows Phone 7 Games for this summer.

Windows Phone 7 is a complete platform, now that Angry Birds is available for it.

The king of the casual games is a symbol for the Windows Phone 7 and its App Marketplace to have reached the first stage of maturity. After the good news about the Mango features that analysts predict will make WP7 a contender to iOS and Android, now the WP7 marketplace has the games that people want to play, and the number one is still Angry Birds.

If you have lived on another planet for a year and a half or so, Angry Birds is a physics game where you sling birds with your finger trying to take down green pigs who stole the birds’ eggs.
Yeah.

The game is fun, of course, and challenging: there are multiple types of birds that work best with the different materials the pigs use to build their defense fortress. Black birds explode and work well with stone; blue birds multiply in the air and work well with glass, yellow birds work well with wood and so on..

As you progress through the levels your skills are tested: aim and release the sling correctly, use the right bird for the right job and crumble the card castle that the pigs build to defend themselves.

There is a lot of gameplay here, so the $ 2.99 price tag is not out of this world, even if the game costs less on other platforms.

Right after the initial introductory levels, the things get serious quickly: passing a level becomes a precision and tactics challenge (well, sometimes it’s just luck). If you are then going for all the achievements and try to get 3 stars in all stages, things become really hard – it will likely take tens of hours to get all the 3 stars achievements.

Verdict (version reviewed: 1.0.0.0)

Yes, Angry Birds celebrity is overwhelming and excessive, but the game is fun, trying and the value is definitely there. Graphics are hilarious and sounds exhilarating.

If you played it on other platforms you might want to replay and go for the Xbox Live Achievements and the friends leaderboard – show your friends how good you are at throwing birds!

Get this app for Windows Phone 7
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Penguin for WP7: can’t stop playing this little game" /2011/06/penguin-for-wp7-cant-stop-playing-this-little-game.html /2011/06/penguin-for-wp7-cant-stop-playing-this-little-game.html#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:45:07 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=1973 Penguin just got released a few days ago and is climbing the charts like a flying penguin (!)...]]>
Penguin (Free) [New+Cool]
Penguin just got released a few days ago and is climbing the charts like a flying penguin (!).

It is a very simple, but fun and addictive game: you are a penguin sliding belly down on the Antarctic hilly ice: tap on your phone’ screen to dive down let go on the uphill to jump and get airborne (yeah penguins can fly). The more air you get, the more the air reserve you get: finish the air and the trip is over. Eating fish along the way also helps your penguin jump higher and get more air.
We loved the high flying over the ice and the fast diving at the right moment, it soon becomes an addiction: the more you fly and hit the slopes, the more you want to perfect your skill and fly more: as simple as that.
We did not feel a similar feeling since we played Canabalt on the iPhone. Sure the production value here is more limited, but the fun is similar: you just want more of it.
Fly higher, dive faster, get more fishes and higher score. That is it.
Penguin is good, try it and you will be hooked.
Genre Games Rank 381
Rating Avg. 4.5 Stars # Reviews 55
Price Free Version 1.0
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Plants Vs Zombies is here: the best WP7 Game yet? /2011/06/plants-vs-zombies-is-here-the-best-wp7-game-yet.html /2011/06/plants-vs-zombies-is-here-the-best-wp7-game-yet.html#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:48:22 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=1957 One of the most anticipated games of the Must Have Xbox Live Games on Windows Phone 7 is Plants Versus Zombies and is finally here. Get ready to fight hordes of funny zombies attacking your green WP7 lawn and fight back with peas, cherries and potatoes!]]>
Plants Vs. Zombies ($ 4.99, Trial)
Plants Vs Zombies ™ for Windows Phone 7 (click to open with Zune)One of the most anticipated games of the Must Have Xbox Live Games on Windows Phone 7 is Plants Versus Zombies and is finally here. Get ready to fight hordes of funny zombies attacking your green WP7 lawn and fight back with peas, cherries and potatoes!
PvZ is just a fantastic game: part strategy, part tower defense, and most of all F-U-N.

Zombies are attacking your house! You defend your turf planting vegetables that can throw pea-bullets to the zombies taking them down as they advance on your lawn. You gather resources in terms of solar energy that either drops from the sky or is generated by sunflowers, then you can spend it to acquire more plants.

Different types of zombies and plants give a great variety to the game: attackers range from the plain undead to the pole vault jumper to the Michael Jackson zombie. A total of 26 types of zombies with different characteristics will attack and require adjustments in your defense tactics. Defenders range from peashooters to cherry bombs to potato mines. Use 49 perennial types to defend your doorstep: select the right tactic in every wave or zombies will soon knock on your door!

The game is frenetic, at the beginning of the levels, you barely have the time to collect the sun rays that you have to spend them immediately; then in the middle of the level unfolding you need to save resources for the grand finale: a huge wave of zombies approaches at the end of each level: you better get ready!

Everything is made with great humor and style: the art has an awesome ironic aura, the zombie animations, movements and explosions are simply hilarious. Even achievements and leaderboards have the ironic style of the game. PvZ has become so iconic that Pop Cap has received 41 offers for a movie made with its style.

The experience is completed by different game modes and mini games: Adventure is the main story and when you are done, 20 mini-games, puzzle mode and Zen Garden mode open up to give you even more fun time. PvZ is definitely one of the WP7 Xbox Live Games that provide the best value for your money, and we think that at $ 4.99 is a great price – you will get tons of fun gameplay for 5 bucks.
 
Verdict (version reviewed: 1.0.0.0)
PvZ is available on every system on the planet (Xbox, PS, DS, iOS, Android, PC and Mac) and is finally available for our enjoyment on your WP7 phone of choice – well, make good use of it and enjoy every minute!
Get this app for Windows Phone 7
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Danger Wing: great free shooter for WP7 /2011/06/danger-wing-great-free-shooter-for-wp7.html /2011/06/danger-wing-great-free-shooter-for-wp7.html#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:00:04 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=1910 Danger Wing is one of this month top releases: released on 6/1, at the time of writing is close to the top 50 and with 4.5 rating average. Well, this is deserved: the debut app for Paul Hoenecke is a great mix of vertical shooter and comics fun.]]>
Danger Wing (Free) [Growing Apps]
Danger Wing is one of this month top releases: released on 6/1, at the time of writing is close to the top 50 and with 4.5 rating average. 

Well, this is deserved: the debut app for Paul Hoenecke is a great mix of vertical shooter and comics fun. Your ship’s captain interacts with his robot, second in command and arch-enemy at the beginning of each stage. These are off beat conversation, as well as fun ways to introduce game controls, settings and story.

Gameplay is basic but fun: hold your finger on the ship and it will start shooting. Swipe left and right to avoid enemies’ bullets while you take them down, until you get to the stage boss for the level final battle. Graphics and animations are very good: smooth and stylish and help raising the quality of the app overall.

Achievements and leaderboard services are provided by Mogade.com, a new service available for Windows Phone developers, currently in beta.

Danger Wing is a good shooter game with solid gameplay, graphics, sounds and fun dialogue between characters. If you ever liked any vertical shooter you should not miss it – hey, it’s free! Click on the icon below to download it on your Windows Phone 7.

Genre Games Rank 54
Rating Avg. 4.5 Stars # Reviews 41
Price Free Version 1.4

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Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode I available on WP7 /2011/06/sonic-the-hedgehog-4-episode-i-available-on-wp7.html /2011/06/sonic-the-hedgehog-4-episode-i-available-on-wp7.html#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:38:48 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=1898 Part of the Must Have Windows Phone 7 Games series, Sonic has arrived on the WP7 platform, it’s running to get rings as usual and it’s fast… catch him If you can!]]>
Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode I ($ 6.99, Trial) [New+Cool]
Part of the Must Have Windows Phone 7 Games series, Sonic has arrived on the WP7 platform, it’s running to get rings as usual and it’s fast… catch him If you can! 

Sonic 4 is one of the best sequels of the original Sonic the Hedgehog that we played back in 1991. Forget about the 3D, this is pure Sonic gameplay in 2D at its core, oh and yeah, it’s gooood!

Sonic runs, try to catch rings as fast as possible, and get to the end of the level in the shortest time possible and wit the maximum amount of rings.

Easy enough? Yeah. Fun? Yeah. Dejavu? Who cares as long as it’s fun!

After many mistakes and mis-steps, Sega returns to the original 2D scrolling and copies a lot from the original game. Indeed this is almost a remake: graphic and sound are from the original game, but with some twist like special tilt controlled stages.

Like in iOS there are virtual joystick controls (default and preferred) as well as tilt controls – that are an interesting new approach to the game, but will have you tilt your head for the entire level (which is no fun for your neck after a while).

The only complaint that we have is the price, 7 bucks seems overpriced, it’s almost the price of the console game, and then on the iOS is only $ 5, that is more the price point for this game, ioho.

Anyways, hit the road with the blue hedgehog and try the game with the Free Trial, you will be able to decide whether to buy or not (we are on the fence and give 4 stars because of the price). Do you think the game is worth $ 7?

Genre Games Rank 5747
Rating Avg. 3.5 Stars # Reviews 30
Price $ 6.99, Trial Version 1.0
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geoDefense: one more hit for the Must Have WP7 Games series /2011/06/geodefense-one-more-hit-for-the-must-have-wp7-games-series.html /2011/06/geodefense-one-more-hit-for-the-must-have-wp7-games-series.html#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:46:11 +0000 bestwp7apps /?p=1871 The Windows Phone 7 Must Have series of Xbox Live Games continues this week with geoDefense. This is a tower defense game, as the title suggests, and possibly the best so far on WP7.]]>
geoDefense ($ 2.99, Trial)
The Windows Phone 7 Must Have series of Xbox Live Games continues this week with geoDefense. This is a tower defense game, as the title suggests, and possibly the best so far on WP7. We already reviewed two great tower defense games: Next War and Big Guns. geoDefense is the perfect balance between the two: fast but not too short; intelligent but not boring; requiring the right time and effort to beat its levels.
The game offers 28 levels: 10 easy, 14 medium and 14 hard. The goal is to kill all the creeps with your towers before they get to your base and take a life away from you – once all the lives are lost, game over!

There are five tower types: Blaster (your typical cannon tower), Laser (goes through enemies, good to blast creeps in a row), Missile (area bomb), Shock (slows down creeps) and Vortex (builds up a large attack from dead creeps). Each tower can be upgraded up to seven times to get to their maximum power.

There is a lot of game to play here, enemies come in different variations and the levels are designed with a specific strategy in mind. You have to apply the right strategy to the variation of enemies and the level layout or you will soon lose the game and have to start over.

Remember: you will be challenged and fail. Multiple times. But then you will find the right strategy to beat the level and you will be gratified!!

Besides staying alive, there is a score mechanism. The score is in points, depending on which type of creep you kill; but there is a catch – the score has a multiplier that increases every time you take down a creep, based on where it was on the level: the closer the creeps explode to your base, the more the multiplier increases.

For example: making a creep explode at the beginning of the track is worth only a x1 multiplier increase, the final stretch is worth x5, the zone close to your base x10 and a creep exploding by hitting your base is worth x20 (and you lose a life)!

To build up score you will have to use dangerous strategies, building your defenses to the end of the track rather than the usual beginning of the other tower defense games!

The great vectors-based graphic style and explosions reminds Geometry Wars. Sound is passable, lacking a little pace and rhythm, but ok.

As every Xbox Live game on Windows Phone 7 there are Achievements and Leaderboards (friends only leaderboard though).

The only defect we found is that it’s hard to place the laser towers exactly where you want to, at least until you learn well the placement mechanism, which comes after playing a few games.

 
Verdict (version reviewed: 1.0.0.0)
geoDefense has already been a hit on iOS and now is getting ready to do the same on WP7: this is the best tower defense game on the platform, try it with the free trial option and you will agree with us.
Get this app for Windows Phone 7
Video courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/user/WindowsMobileApps
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