Archive for July, 2009

Jul200918

Zalman

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Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid Review

Hey guys. Zalman here. I guess I’m unofficially in charge of ng reviews. Anyway, this is a review of Rolando 2, the widely anticipated sequel to the extremely popular Rolando.

First, the gameplay. Rather than typical 2D like in the original Rolando. Don’t get me wrong, it was great, but Rolando 2 had a 3D-like environment. It was affected by accelorametor, the same way you control the Rolandos. It added a nice touch to the game. It was easy to control for the most part. I just wish there would have been an option for sensitivity for the controls. That is a minor roadblock that has a fast learning curve.
Next the plot. The sages of Rolandoland have an ancient curse or something. The royalty then sends Sir Edward, a famous explorer, to retrieve the Golden Orchid (never would have guessed that). Overall it was a good plot and makes you want to keep playing to find out what happens at the end.
Finally, we have the navigation. As I stated before, I wish the controls for moving the Rolandos were a little for sensitive. Nonetheless, the general navigation for controling everithing is fluid.

All in all, ng:) delivered again and did not dissapoint. With Star Defense, my expectations were very high for R2QGO. ngmoco:) raised the bar again. The Loop Blog gives Rolando 2 a solid 9.75 because it’s 3D-esque environment, great gameplays and a spectacular plot to go along with it.

Jul200905

James Donnellon

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Bricks of Camelot Review

       From Donut Games comes an exciting brick breaker game, Bricks of Camelot.  The popular computer game series Bricks of…(Atlantas, Camelot, Egypt…etc) comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch. This game features level packs that consist of 8 levels each. The game currently has 9 level packs for a total of  72 levels! Future updates will bring even more levels to play. The game is based on Camelot so the graphics are all from the medieval times. When you pick a level pack to play you have the option to play in either easy, medium, or hard difficulties with each having a certain amount of lives/bats and high scores to beat.

      The games graphics are a visual masterpiece and are like no other brick breaking game on the appstore. Like every game of this type comes powerups. The good powerups that help you on the way are in green and the bad ones that try to poison you and make it harder for you to win are in red.  These power ups include arrows, which allows you to tap and shoot arrows out of the bat, lightning, causing a severe lightning storm to blast through some blocks, eagle, which find treasure for you to gain more points, extra life, expand bat,  multiball, poison, speed up/down..etc. The levels also feature many other objects in play such as wooden barrels, shields to catch with your bat when you hit their respective block which are worth many points, bags of gold, holy grail, and many other items that are either in your way or help you to gain more points. Some levels consist of fire which rapidly spreads through the playing field toward the bat, if it hits the bat you will lose a life but if you put out the fire with water or by hiting the ball towards it then you will be safe to continue on the level.  The game is nicely done. The bat is extremely responsive to your finger and you will never worry about missing the ball because it wouldn’t move with your finger. The game can be easy in the earlier levels of each pack but it becomes increasingly difficult and very fun to play. The music is nice as well and fits along with the theme. In the options menu you also have the option to change the color of the ball which adds a nice little feature to the game.

This is one of the best brick breaking games currently in the appstore and I highly recommend this game to everyone. With the amount of levels and difficulties you will be playing for a long time to either beat all the levels or beat Donut Games highscores. With the updates promising new levels in the future this game is surely a must have.

TheLoopBlog gives Bricks of Camelot a 9.0/10 stars

Bricks of Camelot is currently on sale in the appstore for $1.99 which is its sale price and really a great bargin .                                                                    Link  http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=316593422&mt=8