Tower defence games are a thriving genera on the iPhone with many, many games, some good, some great and some just plain bad. Today were going to be taking a look at one of the better TD games, Star Defence from ngmoco.

Star Defence follows the usual tower defence premise: bad guys, aliens in this case, invade and it’s your job to stop them dead in their tracks. The stand out feature for Star Defence has to be it’s 3D rotating worlds that you fight on. Instead of a field arena, you get small planets on which the path of the enemy is fixed. This takes some getting used to at first, especially if you’re used to the classic kind of playing field provided by the excellent Fieldrunners, but it’s well worth the effort. The graphics provided in Star Defence are really quite good and look akin to the graphics provided by Command and Conquer Generals, allowing you to zoom right in on the action for close ups with the units which are all pretty well animated. (more…)

I’m a massive fan of the Command and Conquer series and have played every one of them since the initial iconic Command and Conquer. So I was pretty giddy when I heard the news that EA is bringing the Red Alert RTS universe to the iPhone with Command and Conquer Red Alert for iPhone and iPod touch. All the best bits of the franchise seem to be there, with combat between Allied and the Soviets taking centre stage. From what I can tell the mechanics of the RTS action on the small screen have been well worked out, including base building and R&D elements that help you upgrade your weaponry. But enough jabbering, we’ll get a review out to you as soon as possible, but in the mean time hit the jump for some tasty screenies. (more…)

Looks like Tap Tap Revenge has finally met its match. EA Mobile has hit the iPhone with their famous Rock Band franchise. Two major differences that I see iPhone Rock Band having over Tap Tap Revenge is the 4 player Bluetooth mode and access to more mainstream songs.

iPhone Rock Band will operate just like Tap Tap Revenge. But, just like in the regular Rock Band for consoles, you’ll be able to choose between the 4 main instruments, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals. For Vocals, you’ll just be tapping along. Not singing into the built in iPhone mic. Maybe they’ll do that for a future version of the game?

I wonder what Tap Tap Revenge can do to compete with EA and Harmonix’s music tapping genre game. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Well it’s here!!!! Yes I don’t know about everyone else but I’ve been waiting for this game for quite some time. Magic Drop is one of the best Puzzle Games I’ve ever played back in the days of the old Neo Geo Arcade Cabinet. It lends itself to be a more fast pace Puzzle Game that on occasion tests your reflexes!!! If you never played Magic Drop I would take it for a test run. Currently running for $2.99 on the Itunes App Store.

Magic Drop Touch App Store Link

Preview and Screen Shots

Those who read PG regularly might know by now, that I have a bit of a soft spot for id software and am a massive fan of almost all their games. Out of all of the games franchises id have produced over the years, Wolfenstein has to be my favourite. It all started with Wolfenstein 3D which recently got a port to the iPhone which we loved. Those of you with phones other than an iPhone maybe familiar with the most recent edition to the Wolfenstein family on the iPhone, Wolfenstein RPG, as it started life as a mobile java game. Now having gone through a spruce up including graphics, sounds and controls, Wolfenstein RPG is back and better than ever. (more…)

Today we’ll be looking at the recently updated Flight Control for the iPhone. Firemint, a software house out of Melbourne, Australia that has been grabbing headlines via their Real Racing game (review coming soon) and it’s use of the power of the iPhone 3GS, originally found success on the platform with the addictive Flight Control. With a recent update, Flight Control now has multiple airports to play on and a peer-to-peer multiplayer, plus a fast forward button to get you through the first initial stages quickly once you’ve got the game mastered. Also built in are online, location aware, scoreboards courtesy of CloudCell, which you can use to see how you stack up globally or locally within several miles. Flight Control also has direct access to social sites like Twitter allowing you to tweet directly from the app when you next beat that top score of yours. (more…)

On the back of XBLA and PSN releases, Team17, one of our favourite and long standing British game studios, has just dropped Worms for iPhone. I don’t know about you but I remember blasting the crap out of mates back in the days of DOS games with Worms and to finally have that addictive action in the palm of your hand is something I’ve been longing for for ages.

We’ll hope to have a review up for you as soon as we can. In the mean time, here are some screenies:

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For all those times when you’ve got an itching for some sea faring and smuggling I think we have the answer for you today. Another classic game from the Astraware archives has made the jump to Apple’s golden child. Tradewinds 2 brings you onto the high-seas in a swashbuckling tale of trading, fighting and smuggling. If you’re unfamiliar with any of the original Tradewinds games from Astraware, think Dope Wars in the 1700s with ships, battles and side missions. This means that the basic premise of Tradewinds 2 is buy goods, sail to another port, sell them for a profit, buy low, sell high if you like. I don’t know about you but I find these types of trading games particularly addictive and therefore I had high hopes for Handmark’s latest port.

Read on to see whether it makes the grade.
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Those of you who have been either a Windows Mobile or a Palm OS user will probably be familiar with the venerable Astraware Solitaire. As one of the best card games available on many platforms, Astraware have now brought some slick and full featured Solitaire to the iPhone.

Hit the read link to see what we thought. (more…)

Now that I’ve finally managed to get to see the film it’s time to look at GameLoft’s Terminator Salvation iPhone game.

Terminator Salvation for iPhone captures the spirit of a desperate struggle against that machines pretty well for a hand held game. The textures are pretty good, some of the best I’ve seen on the iPhone and really give the sense of realism to the post-apocalytic scenes which are bolstered by decent cut scenes.

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