November 16, 2011 What's On Binary's iPad - Games

No matter what computer you are using, someone has played a game on it. iPads are great devices for wasting time on games and it's the biggest part of the app store. Out of the thousands of games available, most are pretty bad and slapped together for a quick buck. There are many others however that are very, very good but I cannot write about each and every one. Instead I will tell you about the 5 I play most and enjoy over the others.

The first and probably the flagship game for mobile devices is Angry Brids. The simple, physics heavy game where you slingshot various birds into destructive environments to get pigs. It's sleek, simple, and highly addictive. Angry Birds has 3 individual games, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Season, and Angry Birds Rio you can choose from, but choosing is not really an option because once you play one, your brain want to play them all. I can say that I have Angry Birds on my iPhone, iPad and played the Chrome version and achieved 3 stars on every Angry Birds level available. This game should be added to Apple Law, if you own a device, you must own this game.

Super Stick Man Golf is the next game that I play quite a bit and have it on my iPad and iPhone. This is a golfing game with twists, turns, and power ups. It's a side scroller style and your golfer is a stick man. The courses are big, crazy and difficult as heck the deeper you get into the game. Through the game as you get achievements and advance you unlock power ups that you can equip for your 9 hole round. The challenging this is you can only have so many power ups for all 9 holes so you have to use them sparingly. Super Stick Man is a sequel to Stick Man Golf, both are worthy games but what really sets Super Stick Man apart is the online play with random people. That's really fun and fast. Online it's not turn based, both players play real time and the first to sink their ball wins the hole. If you like golf, miniature or regular, this one is worth a look.

Truck & Skulls is an Angry Birds clone. Instead of birds you have various trucks and instead of pigs to get you have skulls. Same premise, you have a launcher to throw trucks into destructible environments. This game is a fun change from the cartoon style of Angry Birds. It's gritty, has more fire and explosions, the levels are vastly different and it's far more challenging than Angry Birds. In the latest updates they have started to add power ups and special trucks to spice it up which has given this one new life and avoided it from getting stagnant.

If Angry Birds is the flagship icon of mobile games, Flight Control HD is the ground breaker. It was the first big breakthrough game for the iPhone and iPad when they first came out. Since day one I still play this one from time to time and it still frustrates the heck out of me. You use your fingers to draw approach paths for incoming airplanes to land. The airports have runways, helipads. The planes and helicopters are all different sizes and fly and different speeds. The goal of the game is simple, land as many as you can without having them crash into each other. But when you have 12 planes coming in at one time, this gets really hard the longer you play. It's fun, challenging, the game looks beautiful and is another must have for the iPad IMHO.

The last game I want to talk about is the best game on the iPad, Infinity Blade. This game pushes the graphical capabilities of the iPad to the max. Build on the Unreal 3 Engine, Infinity Blade is part RPG, part hack n slash, part fighting game. You start off fighting your way through a castle taking on a wide range of enemies, big and small, all graphically impressive and different. The goal is to get to the end boss and try to beat him. Usually you lose and die. But that's OK, because the next round you are now playing as the offspring 20 years later avenging your fathers death. You keep going, building up your characters equipment, getting stronger and stronger so each Bloodline is stronger than the last. The enemies gets harder and harder as you go of course, but that's the hook. You want to keep playing to get stronger to beat that boss and get the Infinity Blade sword. In a few short weeks, on 12-1-11, Infinity Blade 2 is released. I am anticipating this game as much as any Xbox game.

There are other time wasters I have on my iPad but I would say these mentioned are my favorites and most used. You may have other opinions, I would love to hear them and try out new things I may have passed over or never heard of. Drop them in the comments if you'd like.

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