Now on to the review.
Eyegore's Eye Blast
Just in time for Halloween, here comes Eyegore's Eye Blast. This game is not only fun, but challenging as well with two modes of play. In the spirit of jewel shooter type games this is the spooky version of the classic game.
Deep in what appears to be a mad scientist style dungeon, you find your self eye to eye with Eyegore's stockpile of eyeballs swinging from a rusty chain. You may find that odd, but where do you keep your stockpile of eyeballs? Eyegore has his eyeball shooter in the room and needs your help to sort out the rest of his eyeball collection.
The object of this game is simple and self explanatory, shoot the different colored eyes into the pile to make matches of three or more similar colored eyes. What's not so easy about this, is that when the eyes hit, the whole stockpile starts to spin unpredictably. Alot of timing comes into play here as you now have to tilt your phone back and forth to create a swinging motion until you get just the right angle for a well placed, well timed shot. If the swinging motion doesn't help, you can always try banking the eyeballs off the walls. This seems like alot of effort for this type of game, but it won't go unrewarded. Every time you make special combos or certain trick shots, you will unlock achievments that you can post to Twitter and Facebook or compare with friends through an online profile that you can edit yourself.
Online Profile:
-Upload a photo from your phone's photo roll.
-Edit your username or use an alias.
-Invite friends
-Compare scores with your friends or local players.
-Twitter and Facebook Integration.
-View your wall of achievements and post comments.
Challenge Mode:Challenge mode has three difficulty settings; Easy, Medium, and Hard. This mode of play is not timed, and offers a variety of different shaped clusters of eyeballs to shoot at.
Puzzle Mode:
In Puzzle Mode you are racing to make the best time. The object is to clear the eyeballs with as low a time as possible while still getting a high enough score that you can compare against your friends, or other players in your area through the online profile that you created.
Features:
Overall, this app truly sets itself apart from other jewel shooter type games by making full use of the features built in to the iPod Touch and iPhone. First of all, it uses the accelerometer for the back and forth swinging motion during gameplay. This seems to be a one of a kind feature as other similar games have static, non-moving game boards. Another nice feature of this game is that it allows you to listen to a full playlist of music from your phone's library. There's just something really cool about rocking out in a mad scientist's dungeon that appeals to me. Make sure you load up on songs though, as the playlist does not seem to loop once it has run through all your songs. Lastly, you can edit your online profile with the option of adding a picture from your photo roll as an avatar. The online profile is used to keep track of scores, compare with friends, and post to Twitter and Facebook.
My final thoughts:
Eyegore's Eye Blast is extremely addicting and loads of fun. I can highly recommend this game to anyone who has ever enjoyed playing jewel shooter style games. Retro Dreamer has taken this genre to a whole new level with Eyegore's Eye Blast. This is a very well made game, with seamless gameplay, and beautifully rendered graphics.
Eyegore's Eye Blast is $0.99 in the iTunes App Store
iTunes Link: http://bit.ly/EyeBlastApp
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