Alright, all you car lovin’, stunt crazed, speed fanatics take note and listen up: Jet Car Stunts is awesome! Seriously though, I can’t put this game down! I’m finding myself reaching for my iPhone more often just to get a few minutes of stunt action in. It’s crazy! This game is not only one of the funnest car games I’ve played lately, it’s highly addictive and leaves you wanting more and coming back to get it. Now, for the actual review portion of this post:
Jet Car Stunts has two different game modes: time trials and platforming. The two objectives are quite different and each offers it’s own set of challenges. If you choose platforming, the objective of the game is to jump from platform to platform, doing various (car) tricks as you go all while keeping your retry count and time down. Your main object here is just simply to stay alive (ie: don’t fall off the track) and complete the course. The courses for platforming are quite a bit more difficult than the tracks for time trials. If you choose time trials, the whole objective is to do five laps of the track as fast as possible and to beat the clock.
Jet Car Stunts is Open Feint enabled so your high scores (or low) are automatically posted for all to see (can be disabled). Taking a quick glance at the timings posted on the leaderboards tells you that you’ll need to practice a lot in order to really compete at a global scale. However, this isn’t really a huge interest for me. Simply playing the game in either mode provides a lot of entertainment value and playability in and of itself.
Jet Car Stunts has multiple levels in each mode. Each level is unlocked by completed all of the courses in the previous level. So, to move on to intermediate in the time trials, you must score at least a bronze in three of the four various courses in the easy set. Same goes for platforming, in order to move on you must complete four out of five courses for that level. Be warned though, tracks get tough quickly. Just moving into the intermediate group and you quickly realize that you need to be an expert stunt car driver to complete them.
Controling the Jet Car is done via virtual buttons (jet, forward, reverse, brakes) and tilting the device (accelerometer) left or right to steer. If you happen to be flying through the air (quite common in this game) and you see you’re about to overshoot your track or landing spot, touching the brake will bring out the flaps (air brakes!) to help slow you down. Touching the jet button will ignite the jet engine and propel you faster and faster. Be careful though, as you’re accelerating using the jet engine you are quickly burning through jet fuel. Once the jet fuel is gone you have to wait until you pass through a checkpoint before getting more.
In all, we’ve been having a lot of fun with this game and so with that, it’s an easy recommendation. If you like car games of any kind then check out Jet Car Stunts, it’s pure iPhone game fun!
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Judgment Day War by G5 Entertainment is like a real-time version of Risk, the classic board game where you try to dominate the world. In Judgment Day, you control an army of either tanks, helicopters or both, and your goal is to destroy the enemy’s troops. It is extremely simple when you play it: you get a certain number of troops on each of your territories, and your opponent has the same. Furthermore, there are blank territories with unaligned troops that you can conquer. More territories means your troops replenish faster and certain territories have stronger defenses to fend off enemies. I picked this game up and didn’t stop playing it until I was done. Took me a short 2 days, which is definitely the only downside to the game. But when the worst part of a $1 game is that you wish they made more levels, you know it’s more worthy of your Washington than a McDouble.
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Fantasy Warrior: Good & Evil is kind of an iPhone version of Zelda. It’s an RPG but with graphics that still look like they’re from the Gameboy days. Naturally, I was skeptical of the game – and honestly it was hit or miss from me in the beginning. That said, it is extremely deep and for $1 it is a great buy for RPG fans or people who are just bored and want a cheap, long game to dig their heels into. Made by Digital Chocolate, Fantasy Warrior doesn’t have the flair of a Gameloft or ngmoco game. The fight scenes are a joke – you move in 2D and slash your sword at the enemy with awkward battle mechanics. However, the RPG nature really keeps you hooked: the game is challenging enough that it keeps you involved and easy enough that you don’t find yourself trying to beat a boss more than three times before succeeding.
This app simply isn’t for everyone, but for those of us who need to sign or edit documents regularly, it’s a clear winner. Zosh is an app that lets you take PDF’s (only format supported for now) and sign them or write on them via your iPhone. If you get a form for work or from a doctor/lawyer that you need to sign, you forward the e-mail to mydocs@zosh.com and then bring up the app on your iPhone. Zosh automatically downloads the document for you, and you can tap anywhere on the document to sign or write on it. If you want to sign, it uses the iPhone in landscape mode and lets you sign as the screen moves. You have to try it to really understand, but essentially you sign your name on your iPhone while the “paper” you’re writing on moves so you can fit your entire signature on the small iPhone screen. Anyways, it’s extremely well done and this app provides solid utility for anyone who’s on the go often or simply doesn’t want to physically print and sign documents.
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$219.94. The price says it all. The TomTom Car Kit is great; it works perfectly, and I loved using it. In fact, I wish I could keep the review unit that TomTom sent me. That said, would I ever spend 2 bills and change on it? Mayyyybe, but it’s unlikely. A standalone TomTom GPS unit can be as cheap as $100, which is half the price of the TomTom Car Kit ($119.95) + TomTom GPS App ($99.99) for the iPhone. Furthermore, it’s hard to justify buying both the hardware and the software when there are cheaper options for both (more on that later).
The directions were extremely accurate, and the TomTom kit corrected any problems with the iPhone GPS. On the iPhone, if I’m on a road parallel to another (e.g. driving on a highway and there’s a side-road right next to it), the GPS will go all over the place: one second I’ll be on the highway, the next I’ll be on the side-road. That problem was completely eliminated once I started using the TomTom kit. Moreover, the TomTom kit was quick to determine what direction I was going, which was another problem with the iPhone’s GPS system. Finally, I didn’t ever drop the signal of the GPS – I was pleasantly surprised that even if I was in a dead zone the GPS signal was rock-solid. Overall, the TomTom kit served extremely well as a GPS.
Second, the current Google Maps software is sometimes a better option than a TomTom-augmented iPhone solution. I don’t understand why GPS companies are so dumb. Google Maps has been out for years, yet search on the GPS devices still sucks. In fact, it’s so bad that I am sometimes too lazy to use the TomTom device because of all the buttons I have to press to enter my final location. There are three simple reasons. First, TomTom’s search is awful. It doesn’t have nearly as many cached locations as Google (”In-N-Out Burger” in Fremont, CA yielded zero results). Searching for categories (”grocery” or “restaurant”) is unusable. And I can’t do specific searches such as “chinese food” or “movie theater.” Second, I have to type in the address part-by-part. Instead of “43349 Pacific Commons Blvd., Fremont, CA” I have to type in “CA” >> “Fremont” >> “Pacific Commons Blvd” >> “43349″. Last but not least, I can’t cut and paste in an address. So if I use Google’s far superior search, I can’t simply cut and paste the address from Google into TomTom. Instead, I have to memorize the address and plug it in. Hands-down, Google Maps is easier to use for finding locations and directions than TomTom.
