Carmageddon Mobile Review

In 1997 Carmageddon was released. Carmageddon is a race game, but different. You can win a race on three ways: drive through all checkpoints, wreck all opponents or kill all people. Carmageddon was a very controversial game, because running over people was rewarded. The release version in several countries was censored: people were replaced by zombies and robots, because killing non-human objects wasn't as bad as killing humans. Over the whole world politics asked for new laws for violent video games. Eventually the game was banned in several countries. In 2012 Carmageddon was released on iOS. The release on iOS is very remarkable because Apple banned the game from Mac. Yesterday Carmageddon was released for Android.

The first thing you see is the very friendly devil. I love the devil, he is so evil, the perfect devil in my opinion. When you start you have two cars, you can unlock the rest by wrecking your opponents and sometimes you get their car if you wreck it. The controls of the app are not user friendly. The buttons are too small for my fingers, and I don't have very big fingers. After several races I got more used to the controls. Of course you can use the accelerometer for steering, which works much better for steering.

The environments and vehicles are not very nice, but I didn't expect good graphics, because it's a game from 1997. At the top left corner you see your character, Max Damage or Die Anna. The funny thing is the face from your character, it changes while playing. If you crash, you see the head hitting you screen for example. While racing (or crashing) you can repair your car at all times. Repairing your costs money so you need to try to damage your vehicle not too much if you want to buy upgrades. The game is great fun to play. I was laughing often because of the weird crashes, crazy faces and awesome stunts.

Carmageddon Mobile is a very enjoyable game, sadly the controls aren't very user friendly. The great things about this game are the fun while playing, the face of the driver and you can repair your car at any time, which is ideal in a Demolition Derby like game.

Written by: WZ

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Real Racing 3 Review

Several months ago Real Racing 3 was released for iOS and Android. Real Racing is known as one of the most realistic racing game for the mobile platforms. Real Racing 2 was one of my favorite mobile race games so I downloaded Real Racing 3 as soon as it was available. Real Racing 3 is a freemium game. In the game you have two currencies: R$ and Gold. After winning a race you get R$. Most of the time it's between the 3000 and 8000 R$ a race. You can win gold by leveling and by finishing tournaments for 25, 50 or 100 percent. With R$ you can buy new cars, upgrade your car and repair your car. With gold you can speed up the repair time of a car and the delivery time. The most important thing you can do with gold is buying the best cars, such as the Koenigsegg Agera R or the Porsche 918 RSR. You can buy R$ and gold with real money. The Koenigsegg Agera R has a price of 800 gold. With leveling you gain 3 gold and every five levels 5 gold. If you want the Koenigsegg Agera R you need to become level 235 to gain enough gold. The level cap is level 1000, so you can buy all cars in theory, but level 1000 costs so much time, . You can also buy a gold pack from 99.99 dollar so you have 1000 gold, enough for the Koenigsegg Agera R. $99.99! I can't understand that they dare to ask so much money for a digital car.

The game has very good graphics and quite realistic damage models. If you damage your car you can repair your car with R$. After each race there is taken a percentage of several vehicle conditions such a the engine, the tires and the brakes. Once in a while you need to service your car, and servicing takes time. Sometimes you need to wait 15 minutes before servicing is finished, so if you like to race much, you need many cars or another game.

The opponents are real opponents, they say. By using time shifted multiplayer, which means that your time is recorded and send to the Real Racing servers, you can race with friends without being online at the same time. You need to link the game with Facebook to race against your friends' time. The AI which control your friends car is terrible. The AI wants to drive always on the ideal line. If you are in it's way, you will be pushed away until the AI is back on it's track. If you brake too early and there is an opponent behind you, it will crash into your back.

Real Racing 3 is a very good racing game, with realistic cars and tracks. Sadly the AI is terrible and getting the best cars is nearly impossible. If you like to race on a mobile platform, download this game!

Thanks to: Pocketgamer

Written by: WZ

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Review: Earn to Die iOS

Introduction
Today it's time for to review the first mobile game: Earn to Die. Earn to Die has a Lite version, you can play it until you reached the end of level one. The full version costs $0.99 or €0.89. I knew Earn to Die already from the web version so I already knew what I could expect. Earn to Die has an iOS app and an Android app. I'm playing the game on my iPod Touch 4g.

The game
In the begin you get an simple car which doesn't have a big range. If you drive you earn money for distance and for killing zombies. You always earn enough money to buy a upgrade. After a while my first car was fully upgraded so I needed to buy the next one. And that happened seven times, because there are eight cars. That is a disadvantage of this game: it's often the same. You don't need to do very much, only holding 'Accelerate' is enough to reach good scores.

Beating story mode costs about 3 hours. After you completed story mode you can play Halloween mode and Campaign mode. In Halloween mode you need to destroy pumpkins laying in the levels. In Campaign mode you get a limited budget to upgrade a car. When you upgraded your car you need to drive one of the levels as fast as you can. If you connect to Game Centre you will see the times of your friends so you can try to beat them. The game is very spectacular because of the explosions, the flying parts of zombies, jumps and structures you can drive through.

Sadly the developers don't update the game any more, the last update was nearly half a year ago. The game could easily be update several times a year by adding new levels and new vehicles. If they chose to do that the game would be longer, because I think it's currently a bit short, and they keep the game interesting, so it's also for their own advantage.

If you search a spectacular game with a high replay worth, you don't need to search further. The only disadvantages are: too easy, too short and much the same.

I also made a screenshot album: Album

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