Welcome to the weekly iPhone Quality Index (Qi) games round-up, giving you the LOWdown on the HIGH scorers every Friday on these hallowed pages.

As you may already know, Qi trawls the web for iPhone game reviews from the world’s most respected online and print sources.
Qi then applies its own magic formula to each site (such as 148Apps, Macworld, and No DPad) to establish a single definitive Qi score for each iPhone app and game.

It’s got a great First Touch

Curling and dipping its way towards the top corner of the Quality Index onion bag comes the ferociously driven First Touch Soccer, a football simulation born out of the embers of the excellent X2 franchise.

In little over 90 minutes of playing time on the App Store, X2 Games’s world-class slice of soccer fare has mesmerised four iPhone pundits with its Messi-esque dribbling to score a netbusting 9.2 Qi rating.

Pick from over 250 club sides, 30 competitions, and seven game modes, and take advantage of the new Freedom Control mechanics to lead your Star Player to ultimate glory. Or at least one victory.
Pocket Gamer’s lead commentator for the evening Keith Andrew described the action in First Touch Soccer as, “comparable to any of its bigger brothers on far meatier formats...a consummate football experience, representing a new high water mark for the genre on iPhone.”

A Bug’s Life

Whilst the abovementioned FC Barcelona and Argentina forward goes by the nickname of The Atomic Flea, a similarly talented plague of insects flies onto Qi’s top ten chart this week off the back of a trio of critiques.

Chillingo’s monstrously successful Cut the Rope provides the inspiration for Avallon Alliance’s trajectory-based puzzler Jump Out!, which challenges your slingshot-firing mettle and your star-grabbing potential to the max.

A quicker than lightning update to Jump Out! swelled the number of levels to 75, each of whom – for ‘they’ do possess their own unique character, trust me – is populated by bumpers, nails, electric fences, marbles....

The variation in Jump Out!’s gameplay drew tidy App-lause from AppSpy: “the use of multiple screen-stretching room allows the puzzles to increase in challenge without resorting to gimmicky hair-splitting physics puzzles, though the occasional single-room brain tickler does break things up nicely.”

You can get the up-to-date information about which games are reviewing best over at the Quality Index.