Monster Mayhem / iPad Review

Monster Mayhem is one of those games that make you look most stupid while playing them.

Look out, couse when people don't know your'e holding an iPad, they could think things...

The goal of the game is to hold back throngs of zombies attacking a cemetary gate. You start with only a knife, swinging it with your finger all over the screen, decapitating everything you can. After several waves of zombies, we can buy some better weapons - a gun, a shotgun, uzi, or even a flamethrower. You can also arm yourself with an airstrike or granades. They all do massive damage in a short time, but unfortunately you run out of ammo pretty quick, so.. Your'e forced to use knife most of the time.

Which is the most fun part of the game. You'll eventually end up swiping all over the place as fast as you can, tapping once every few seconds to collect coins lying here and there before they disappear.. Then swiping everywhere again, horizontally, vertically, like mad :)

Graphics ain't nothing special, sound effects wont win any oscars, but the gameplay is just amazing.

Go get it while it's free for a limited time, just don't be cought by friends cameras playing - couse belive me, you won't look to smart bringing mayhem.

Graphics: 3

Sound: 3

Gameplay: 5

Overall: 4

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Free App of the Day: Carnivores: Ice Age Pro

Carnivores: Ice Age is a very solid FPS. It's not a true action game, because there's too much thinking, too much creeping, and our character walks a bit slow. If You come too close to the animal - very often You'll find an end under it's hooves, or on their antlers, or just simply torn too death. The graphics ain't breath-taking, but it's a solid 3d environment with simple textures. Sounds are OK, You can tell a difference if there's a wolf or a pig behind You ;)

So yes, it's fun - You walk around the island and try to snipe as many animals as it's possible. If You succeed - You earn points. Every map, every weapon, and every animal has it's point value. Before start of the game You have to allocate those points, and decide which animals and on which map You'll be hunting. For example, if You've got 80 points, You can choose a map for 50 points, an animal for 10 points, and You'll have 20 points left to allocate to use a pistol. Innovative system, but it's really simple and makes sense. The more You play - more options appear, allowing You to change Your style of play.

I had really low expectations once I saw game screenshots on AppStore, and I've been really pleasantly surprised - I spent few hours walking around the maps and shooting those defenseless creatures. Well, maybe not all of them are defenseless - just look at the screenshot below..

Graphics: 3.5

Sound: 4.0

Gameplay: 4.0

Overall: 4.0

Mafia Rush / iPad Review

If you didn't know it already - I'm an action games junkie. If there's shooting and running in the game, or other kinds of adrenaline pumps - I'll be happy to at least try it. If it's an action game from a publisher with a solid reputation, then, I guess, it'll eventually end up here with a positive review :)

Mafia Rush tries to be an evolution of the simple hack & slash, isometric view games with double-pad control. Beside the well - known survival mode, in which you try to kill all enemies coming from all directions, there are also three other modes: robbery, attack and defend.

In robbery missions you've got to pick up bags with money from the bank, and get them to the escape truck. If an enemy hits you - you drop the bag. Of course you can blast enemies away, pick it up again, and continue to the truck, but you have to remember there's also a time limit. If you spend to much time fighting and picking up lost bags, you can already restart the mission.

Defend missions are just the opposite - you have to defend the money truck, not allowing enemies walk off with too many of your stolen bags. You've got also some tools which will help - i.e. a stationary self-targeting machine-gun turret. 

In attack missions, the easiest of them all, you have to find some TNT packages, plant them one by one on a enemy vehicle, run away from the blast radius, and of course stay alive while enemies try to shoot you. It sounds fun - and it is! - but I find those missions really too easy :)

The only weakness of this generally very good app is that the control pads feel weird. Don't get me wrong - they work all right, you turn around and fire in desired direction, but.. It ain't so smooth like in i.e. Gun Bros. Control pads in Gun Bros feel perfect, you turn around so smoothly, responding to every pixel you slide your thumb. Maybe I'm just an old man whining, but every time I play those two games Mafia is a little annoying. Maybe it's just me.. 

But in the end - Mafia Rush is a game well above average, worth playing at least a few hours.

Graphics: 4.5

Sound: 4.5

Gameplay: 4.5

Overall: 4.5