I’m a big fan of electronic/house/techno and turntablism. Most of my day is spent listening to the likes of DJ Shadow, RJD2, and Bad Boy Bill, amongst others. The upcoming DJ game craze has taken hold and DJ Mix Tour for the iPhone looks to capitalize on the momentum. The game falls a bit short, though.
There have been a couple golf games on the iPhone which utilize the accelerometer for your swing just because they can. As such, many of them aren’t great games. Let’s Golf!, from Gameloft, eschews the gimmicks and gives you familiar controls along with solid graphics to provide a solid golf title for your iPhone.
First Impression: Boring
Second, and third, impression: Intriguing
First off I apparently use 9 percent of my brain, while Matt and my sister only use 8 percent, so ipso facto I’m more intelligent than Matt Banks and my sister.
Now to the game– Brain Challenge by Gameloft, a 1000 point Wii Ware download. It’s fun, and definitely a great game for a large group of people who might want to embarrass themselves in front of friends (if only they had to spell words and do math problems). Playing this game by yourself is not only slightly depressing, but rather boring. But fighting to the death in brain challenges against your friends and family (mortal enemies) is invigorating. There are 5 different sections when you play single player; Logic, Math, Visual, Focus, and Memory. It’s pretty obvious what each section involves. Logic involves completing puzzles while the math section involves equations and cubes where you have to go around the cube adding, subtraction, dividing, or multiplying a specific number (this one is hard to describe so deal with it). The focus section tests you on which ball bounces higher; memory tests how well you remember different paths; and the visual section tests you on which items weigh more based on items on scales (sometimes a carrot weighs more than an airplane), as well as matching faces. Some of the specific tests are described poorly and are difficult to understand what they in fact want you to do, but after playing a little while it’s easy to eventually figure it all out.
It takes a lot these days for me to buy a WiiWare game. I have a full system memory and a full 2GB SD card, so any new purchase requires a bit of maneuvering on my part to free up space somewhere so I can play new games. In most cases, I just pass over the new WiiWare titles because of the inherent hassle, but Midnight Pool was different. I’m a big billiard fan, both in real life and in video games. After seeing some of the videos and previews, I had to check this one out.
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