iPhone Application Reviews

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is an enhanced port of the PSP version, which was a port of the DS title released last year. This version plays like a combination of both games, keeping the aspect ratio and graphics of the PSP version with the touch events from the original DS title. You play as the son of a recently murdered gang lord sent to deliver a sword, a treasured family heirloom, to your uncle in Liberty City. You are ambushed at the airport, robbed of the sword, and left for dead. Its up to you to seek revenge upon the ones who shot you and the people who murdered your father.

N.O.V.A. is a first person shooter brought to you by Gameloft, which has been known for making portable clones of popular console games. It's very reminiscent of Halo, not just in gameplay, but in story as well: In the future, people live on huge orbiting satellites, which band together to form the Near Orbit Vangaurd Alliance. An alien race known as Xenos hijack a marine ship and threaten the alliances safety. It is up to you, a retired marine forced back into duty, to combat the alien scum.

Doom Resurrection is based on id Software's popular first person shooter Doom 3.  You are a marine stationed on a martian base when a portal to hell is accidentally opened and demons and zombies invade the base, leaving you and a handful of people as the lone survivors. The functions like a normal first person shooter, only on rails. Your character moves on a set path while you dispatch enemies and collect items.

Doom Classic puts you in the boots of a Marine stationed at a martian outpost where all hell breaks loose, quite literally.  You are the lone survivor, and it's up to you to survive and escape, taking down the hell-spawn that invaded your base in the process.  The game is a straight port, and runs beautifully on the iPhone.  Running down corridors and blasting baddies is just as fun as you remember it, free of any lag or slowdown.  Even all of the original cheat codes work, just do a four finger tap and input them on the keypad.

Vector Tanks is a throwback to the old arcade games of the early 80s. If you can remember the classic game Battlezone, then this will give you flashbacks. The plot is simple: you're in a tank and you've got to blow up other tanks before they do the same to you. The graphics are also simple: 3-D vector outlines, some objects shaded, some not. The fun is based on a classic concept: blowing stuff up is cool. There's no plot to remember, no tricky levels or puzzles, just classic 5 minute action.

Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies is a First Person Shooter game that pits you, a rookie soldier, against hordes of Nazi zombies in a war torn German bunker in World War II. That's right, you're fighting dead Nazis, turned into zombies. If you've played the zombie bonus mode on Call of Duty: World at War on a console game system, you'll know what to expect here: plenty of scary, creepy zombies, with WWII era rifles, shotguns, grenades, and flamethrowers.

Boombrigade, from 10tons Ltd, is an action-packed take on the tower defense genre. You lead a crazy squad of soldiers who must defend their bunker from neverending alien waves. What makes Boombrigade different from all the other tower defense games is your troops aren't stationary, you have to move them around constantly! If your troops die or the bunker blows up, it's game over.

Blades of Fury is a surprisingly good fighting game quite similar to Soul Calibur. Created by Gameloft, Blades oozes quality in every category, from the sweet visuals to online play. It even features a decent storyline! After being defeated 20 years ago, the evil Faust has risen again to reclaim the holy suit of armor. You start the game by choosing one of 6 characters (more are unlockable), both good and bad, each with unique moves and interesting motivations for wanting the armor.

iDracula is a sweat-inducing shooter from More Games Entertainment and Chillingo. You play a vampire hunter while taking out hundreds of monsters and the occasional bloodsucker. Being outnumbered is a serious understatement. The difficulty level here is somewhere in between intense and brutal. If surviving endless waves of monsters until you inevitably die sounds like good times, iDracula is definitely the game for you!
 

Nice list is an application made specifically to help you remember which gifts to buy while you're out Christmas shopping! The first thing you'll notice is that it's very pretty. To begin creating your lists, simply tap the plus button to add someone's name from your contacts. If their name isn't in your contacts, you can manually enter it.