Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games Anomaly Warzone Earth, Aces 3D Brick Breaker, Flick Soccer!
Welcome to the weekly iPhone Quality Index (Qi) games round-up, giving you the LOWdown on the HIGH scorers every Friday on these illustrious pages.
As you may already know, Qi trawls the web for iPhone game reviews from the worlds most respected online and print sources.
Qi then applies its own magic formula to each site (including 148Apps, Macworld, and AppSpy) to establish a single definitive Qi score for each iPhone app and game.
On the offence
Pitting its heavily armoured squad against all of the recent releases in the App Store and coming out victorious this week on Qis leaderboard is Anomaly Warzone Earth, Chillingos sublime role-reversing tower OFFENCE game.
No, youre not seeing things. In Anomaly Warzone Earth, YOU are the aggressor, stealthily leading your troops through the alien fortifications by deploying special armaments at just the right moments.
Chillingos tower-defence-in-reverse strategy title has earned an unparalleled 9.8 Qi rating from a quartet of stunning reviews, collecting a rare Platinum Award from Pocket Gamer in the process: Its smooth, slick, and easy to play, yet capable of producing moments of real tension and panic from some cleverly designed missions and well-balanced units.
Block Rockin Beats
Whats this: another innovative twist on a popular, well-worn gaming category? Concrete Softwares Aces 3D Brick Breaker takes the first-person shooter model, flips it on its side, tickles its belly, and adds water.
Of course it doesnt.
In fact, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based development team has breathed new life into the Breakout clone genre through the adroit addition of everyones favourite dimension: depth.
Its safe to say Gamezebo bought into Concrete Softwares block-breaking revolution, its reviewer explaining that, levels in Aces 3D Brick Breaker dont always have a flat surface. Hills and curved spaces change the trajectory of the ball, adding huge challenge to some levels.
Back of the net
The start of the Spanish La Liga season may have been delayed by some abysmally timed union strike, but fear not, intrepid admirers of silky continental ball skills.
To feed your insatiable European footy appetite - alongside the German Bundesliga, of course - why not dine out on Full Fats Flick Soccer!, a game whose USP aftertouch has nothing whatsoever to do with Ryan Giggss carnal relations.
Promise.
You can get the up-to-date information about which games are reviewing best over at the Quality Index.