Reviews

Castle Warriors

Castle Warriors – Review – Simple Yet Fun

Castle Warriors is a real-time strategy game with simple, addictive gameplay. It has a story line filled with subtle naughty references as the Queen Mynera and William (that’s you) exchange letters throughout the plot. You have to defeat your enemy within a given amount of days. You start each level with a castle and a few [...]

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Battle Frogging 2 Lite – Who Needs Angry Birds?

This is a FREE light version of Battle Frogging 2, which is probably the best Angry Birds type game on the PlayBook at the moment. The physics are done very well, and you can zoom in and out of the levels to get the whole picture. You will be launching 5 types of beavers with [...]

Turbo Grannies

Turbo Grannies – A Fun Twist to a Classic

Another fun excite-bike (or Dirt Bike) style game released by Imperial Game Studio, who also released Zombie Rider on the PlayBook. Guide Granny through the mountains, suburbia, the desert and Florida on her turbo charged cart. Jumps, loop-de-loops and other terrain add lots of fun and challenging gameplay. Accelerate by holding the right side of the [...]

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Zombie Rider – Halloween Review

Zombie Rider, a classic 2D style excite bike style game is released just in time for Halloween. Cool rock tunes, rumbling choppers, and flailing zombie limbs as you crash and burn trying to make it to the next checkpoint. The tunes are cool and the graphics are fun and vibrant, but it can take some time getting [...]

Zombie Apocalypse

The Last Stand: Zombie Apocalypse – Halloween Review

Here is a fun Zombie shoot’em up game for Halloween. Fight to stay alive as you shoot your way through graveyards, farmers fields, football fields, and other landscapes littered with Zombies. Earn and collect coins to buy new weapons and upgrades after each level. Although the gameplay is repetitive, there was something addictive about blasting [...]

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Samurai II: Vengeance – Review

Since this game was released in App World for the Playbook a week ago, I haven’t been able to put it down. The graphics, sound, and gameplay are all brought together perfectly in Samurai 2: Vengeance. You are an honorable Samurai and have to fight your way to defeat the evil lord Orochi. From top-down view, hack [...]

Go JoGoo!

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JoGoo is a little birdie that needs your help to go up, up, up! To accomplish that, you need to direct him by tilting your PlayBook to collect the stars that keep him moving towards the sky. You can collect rocket packs to boost your speed, helmets to break through obstacles, and other goodies to [...]

Sim City Deluxe HD

Sim City Deluxe HD – Review

When Sim City was released for the Playbook, I was very excited. I have been playing different versions of this franchise for over 15 years now on PC. In my mind, I thought it would be a great game to play on a tablet, and the portability of the Playbook would allow me to bring [...]

KONA'S Crate

Kona’s Crate

Another newly released game by Union: In this game, you have to transport crates using a jet powered platform before chief Kona becomes angry. To control the thrusters on your platform, you tap and hold the left or right side of the screen. I found the game starts to only get tricky after the ‘Sunny Skies’ levels, [...]

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PopcornRush

PopcornRush is a great way to kill 60 seconds of your time. The object of the game is simple: Pop the kernals of corn by clicking or swiping on them as they fly through the air. You can score combos and build extra points by popping multiple kernels at a time. The speed of the [...]