★★✩✩✩ (iTMS)
Jetset: A Game For Airports is probably not exactly that. Possibly the last thing you want to do after checking through security and taking your shoes off is load up your iPhone game about doing what you just did.
The name of the game is airport security as the line continues to grow and the list of things that people can’t bring on the plane is ever-changing. As the game goes on, the line gets longer and the people come faster. You’ll have to make them check clothing and confiscate belongings from their suitcases.
Large fingers are Jetset’s enemy as you’ll be fumbling to take the person’s prohibited shoes off and instead strip them of their pants.
Jetset also promises unlockables if you play the game in an airport. This gimmick alone almost makes it worth keeping on your iPhone somewhere just to flick it on in Denver International, Dulles or wherever you may be. But not for $5.
The steep price makes this game hard to recommend. There’s simply not enough there to justify a $5 purchase. I played the game a few times and got tired of it because nothing new happens. I’m not a fan of airport security and I don’t want to do it on my phone either.
★★✩✩✩ (iTMS)
Aqua Jigsaw is one of those apps that’s a fun idea in theory but on the iPhone it’s hard to execute. 99 Games brings iPhone addicts the ability to solve over 75 small, simple jigsaw puzzles with, as the name suggests, an oceanic theme.
Aqua Jigsaw also allows the user to use one of their own images to create a puzzle with as well as the ability to take a brand new picture and load it up in puzzle form. And while Aqua Jigsaw does this just fine, with no real bugs, is a 12 piece puzzle really something you want to do on your iPhone?
As you’d imagine, it doesn’t take long to put together one of the puzzles and Aqua Jigsaw even times you but with 10 of the 12 pieces being edge pieces; the only challenge is finding that last piece or two with an entire puzzle overlapping it.
I’d imagine this game was developed for small children, kids who enjoy puzzles, to keep them occupied while waiting at the doctor’s office or on a car ride and if that is what you would be using it for, I can somewhat recommend Aqua Jigsaw. But if you’re the iPhone user looking for a way to pass the time, this is not the app for you.
At $1.99, if you’re buying Aqua Jigsaw for your children, go ahead. Otherwise drop your two dollars on something a little bit more challenging.
★✩✩✩✩ (iTMS)
Nevercenter’s Photobag application comes with five filters to use with new, incoming pictures and old saved pictures. The filters are all pretty dull and useless, nothing you’d ever apply to a picture and show to your friends. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who would look at one of the pictures that you’ve passed through Photobag and be excited by them. It’s just a dull app.
Photobag is on sale this week for $2.99. They promise an update real soon but sadly not much can fix this dull, slow app.~~Zack Shapiro
★★✩✩✩ (iTMS)
If you’re looking for an app that doesn’t do what it tells you it does, download iWant. iWant claims that with the help of Yelp.com, it will find retautants, cafés, lodging, banks, gas, and other amenities. It doesn’t. iWant shows a few restaurants around you with some additional listings that are out of business. I’m not looking for a Brazilian steak house that went out of business in 2006, I want the one that just opened (which isn’t to be found in iWant).
The interface is simple (read: boring) with a white background and black and white icons. My iPhone does color right? Put some damn color in the application!
This app is a joke, really. There are so many other applications that do what this claims and do it so much better. Don’t download iWant, ever. ~~Zack Shapiro
Speed - ★★★✩✩ (iTMS) vs. SpeedBox - ★✩✩✩✩ (iTMS)
I’m not sure what Mr. Schneider was thinking. This is the iPhone. It’s got style. It’s glossy, damnit! You’ve gotta make it beautiful! Oh, and it would help if your app could actually measure the speed, too.
Speed: Nice looks, got all the options of SpeedBox, and does accurate measurements. Good going, Steven!
Weak graphics at low frame rates make this feel like a quick and dirty port from a less powerful paltform. Oh wait, that’s what it is. The controls are limited, too. Get Cro-Mag Rally instead. ~~Jens Ayton
Bad controls — very hard to steer. Graphics not very impressive. Very unrealistic physics.
Most annoying UI quirk: How the heck am I supposed to press the punch button with the same thumb I’m holding the gas button with? Is this game designed by some kind of dual thumb wielding creature?
Don’t need yet another flickr wannabe.
It’s stylistic and cool, but as a game, it just doesn’t work, it’s unfortunately just plain boring. Add multiplayer, however, and I’m game.
★★✩✩✩
Bad controls, ugly graphics, laggy, ueggch. Avoid.
Never been able to decode a single barcode. Frequently crashes. Bad UI. Can’t even detect where in the picture the code is, and the UI for selecting it yourself is seriously broken. Avoid.
★✩✩✩✩
Incredibly annoying to watch twenty seconds of banners, intros and logos before even getting to the menu (which is very counter-intuitive). As for the game play, it’s just annoying. You get a split second to rotate your iphone a quarter circle to put your colored ball in its own pile, but there’s also inertia so the rotation isn’t instantaneous, so unless there are several balls of the same color appearing after each other, you don’t have much chance of scoring.
Admittably, I’ve only tried the game for a few minutes: I got too frustrated with it to try it properly. (iTMS)
First and foremost, the lack of single iPhone multiplayer for an air hockey game is just sort of inexcusable. Secondly, having the puck in front of the finger helps with playing without obscuring the playing field in front of you, but it’s not uncommon to want to see behind you, which you can’t do with the finger blocking. Tried horizontal offset but steering only felt awkward that way. Didn’t like the game, deleted it even though I paid for it.
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