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SimCity on the iPhone/iPod Touch - first impressions and cartoon love


Really quick SimCity iPhone/iPod Touch first impressions article over on paper-jam. Karen Frawl, the cartoon "entertainment advisor" is almost as great as Constance Lee, dammit...

 

 


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Posted December 17, 2008
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Super Bloody Monkey Ball


Here's another massively fraught moment from Super Monkey Ball on my iPod Touch thing from the other day. 

It looks absolutely lovely on the touch screen, but by God it's bleedin' hard. In this case the accelerometer in the iPhone/iPod Touch is well suited to the game, although oversensitive. Playing it in the car on Saturday (um, I wasn't driving) was 10x harder still. ("Stop going round corners! Stop driving over bumps!")

I can see this being a recurring problem with iPhone OS games, being worse with more joysticky/pad-based arcade games. Namco implemented a couple of different control styles, with their version of Pac-man - I can see there'll be some add-on controllers soon.

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Posted July 14, 2008
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