A few weeks ago, Konami placed a flash teaser on the Kojima Productions website. Back then people thought that the new Metal Gear Solid game would be an exclusive for Xbox 360 or Wii, but now a scan of the latest Famitsu edition shows that Hideo Kojima’s new Metal Gear Solid game is heading to iPhone. From the scans we can tellt hat the game will look similar to Metal Gear Solid 4 with touchscreen controls. The Metal Gear franchise is very popular on video game systems, so this could be another title that will make iPhone gaming something huge. We currently don’t have any extra information on this promising title.
Saturday Night Fever: Dance! was not the only game released in the App Store by Paramount Digital Entertainment, Iron Man: Aerial Assault is also an iPhone and iPod Touch game published by Paramount. Players have the opportunity to play as Iron Man in aerial combat through 12 different levels of airborne combat. Iron Man has high-powered weaponry and smart flying mechanisms to help him on his mission to fight evil. The game was developed by doublesix and uses the accelerometer and touch-controls of the iPhone. Iron Man: Aerial Assault is now in the App Store for $7.99.
The rhythm and dance game Saturday Night Fever: Dance! for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available in the App Store. The game is based on the classic 70’s film with John Travolta as Tony Manero. Saturday Night Fever: Dance! contains four levels of difficulty, and players have to choice to play as one of two seventies-styled studs who will test their tap and slide skills to beats from the seventies including hit songs like YMCA (The Village People), Shake Your Groove Thing (Peaches and Herb), Car Wash (Rose Royce) and many other classic songs. The game also offers a hotseat mode that allows up to four players to compete by taking turns and passing the defice off to one another. Saturday Night Fever: Dance! is now available for $4.99.
SMAGA Bakery mailed us to let us know that their new iPhone and iPod Touch game Jump is now available in the App Store for $0.99. Goal of the game is to get the best score and to collect the cups at the end of each level by tilting your device. Read the rest of this entry »
Two days ago Gameloft released a new video of Hero of Sparta, and today they released the game in the App Store. The game is available for iPhone and iPod Touch and uses the touch-screen of both systems to move your hero with the virtual analogue stick and to unleash his power by performing combos on the screen. Use your sword, axe, bow or twin blades to get rid of the enemies that guard the 8 levels of this full 3D game. The game contains mythical creatures like Cerberus, the Cyclops and many other foes. Get Hero of Sparta now for $9.99 in the App Store.
Tag Games has announced that they are working on a new title called Car Jack Streets, a sandbox-game that looks just as cool like the retro Grand Theft Auto games. The developers over at Tag Games know that many iPhone- and iPod Touch-users are big GTA-fans, so that’s why they’ve created this top-down view action game. The player starts with gambling bets of over $1 million, so your task is to pay the mob back by doing dirty jobs. Steal cars, run shipments, deliver pizza or take out gang bangers just to pay those bastards back. Here’s a list of more game features:
Top-down 3D visuals for a real sense of vertigo
A huge variety of vehicles to jack including helicopters
An infinite combination of criminal tasks available each day
According to The Guardian, Gameloft will release two big iPhone and iPod Touch games by the end of this year. The first title is Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes, a third-person WWI shooter with onfoot shoting and some driving action as well. The game uses a virtual D-pad for controlling your character in the game. The second game is Hero of Sparta, a 3D hack-n-slash game with an onscreen D-pad and contextual options to attack, defend, change weapons and so on.
Today two mediocre iPhone and iPod Touch games were dropped in price. First up is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, this game droped from $9.99 to $7.99. The controls in this game were pretty limited, and the gameplay is pretty short. Second game is Kroll, this title dropped from $7.99 to $4.99. It’s a beautiful game, but the gameplay is just a little too simple to keep you entertained long enough.
Tempest, a classic 80’s arcade game, is now getting a new life and a new name on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Vector Blaster is a $2.99 game from Rude Scotsman and is a clone of Tempest. You blast rhough obstacles and overcome insurmountable odds as you, Vector Blaster, fight to save your home planet Zydar from the most evil criminal mastermind of the 32nd century–Ghotran! The developer himself says the game has great graphics, controls and music.
