Moon Base: Lander App Review

“Moon Base Lander to mission control, we have just landed and we are waiting for you to board your iTouch’s, iPhone’s and iPad’s. The assigned missions need to be completed successfully by a Senior Apprentice, can you work your way through the ranks and live up to my expectations?”

Moon Base Lander is a space pod navigation game that gives you the power to control the thrust and direction along your decent. Created by The Ant Ranch this game utilizes the accelerometer for tilting your pod and activating your thrusters. Moon Base Lander has only slightly impressed me with the actual game play. I was expecting more from this game with at least more challenges on each level, for example flying debris and a point of view from the cockpit with a display to show in general where the target areas are for the landing zones.

Good points to this game would be the gauges you have for reference while playing, Damage, Fuel, Velocity, and your pods directional Roll. Stats are provided in a helpful way after each level to help you see how good you have done and see if you’re improving, for example I look at the fuel spent to decide on which area to land on. If I used more than 200 on a landing most likely I would go for the green zone to save on fuel for the upcoming rounds. Graphics were not the best and also not the worst let’s just say they can do a little bit better and the hints and instructions at the beginning of the game are simplified more. Calibration is key when you have to put the game down and come back to it, you cannot rotate the game screen to change how you hold your apple device to play sideways. Be sure to find a comfortable position while playing this is a very addicting game and you will not want to put it down.

A scoreboard will be provided to keep your hopes up and keep you persistent, this game is challenging just stay calm threw out the levels, your pod and high score depends on it. Keep in mind before you by this game, Moon Base: Lander is an old school arcade type with no online interaction and no multi–task.

The Rundown

• Ok Graphics

• Needs better POV

• Controls need to be spiced up

• More obstacles

• And some actually soundtracks for game play, something other than wind chimes

Overall I give Moon Base: Lander a 3 out of 5! Good day Space Ace!

Waves: Survivor App Review

Waves: Survivor is a very entertaining game that puts you in the middle of the ocean with no food, just hope and an occasional mermaid to lend a hand. If you like forward progress games like Dead Runner, Waves: Survivor will give you a paddle for your money with an addicting setup and online leader-boards to motivate you to stay alive longer. Stay afloat and be cautious of the rising and falling tides that carry dangerous puffer fish, piranhas and killer sharks.

This game has simple controls for easy play, a forward and backward paddle button, a pressure sensitive jump button and a wide target area for attacking with the paddle. You start off as a survivor in the middle of the ocean and work your way through the quickly changing days and nights, the goal of this game is to obtain as many gold coins as possible and fend off the attacking fish for as long as you can with an occasional splash of water in your boat. A meter will also be displayed at the top of the screen to show you how far a shark is from you, the closer the shark gets the faster you will need to paddle. The Survivor can rock out any time you like which is very funny at times, all you do is tap the head of the survivor on the shark distance meter and he will pick up his paddle guitar and give you a show. There is also a tilt function for riding the waves which comes in handy when you stumble across a fortune. The mini challenge in this game keeps you on your toes, if you happen to drop into the water you will have to swim up to your boat. Be careful though there are bombs in the water that you will have to avoid by tilting around them as you swim back up.

The Rundown

Basic graphics keep Waves: Survivor running fluidly and smooth even with the awesome wave mechanics. Audio can get annoying at times when fighting off fish but not so much to not make you want to play. Using the posting function for Facebook and Twitter is hesitant and slow and loading time for the game takes a good 20 seconds, not bad though for a one time load. I would not mind seeing some better graphics in an update and maybe a story line or a challenge threw out the days more or less something like “Overnight a ship passed by and dropped off some coins a hundred yards ahead try to obtain them”

Overall this game is very entertaining and challenging. Would I recommend this game? Yes, I give it a 3 out of 5.