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Kramer

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Score! Is fucking brilliant.

Line drawing mixed with footy, by the guys who make First Touch Soccer. You recreate famous goals from over the years, within a 3D representation.

Took a punt, as I'm not a huge fan of line drawing games - but this is excellent fun.

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Hate to self-quote, but...

Has anyone tried Rage of Bahamut yet?

I advise everyone to steer the fuck clear of this one. The whole "game" is just a wrapper for a webpage. Everything you do brings up a flash-esque "spinner" whilst it loads the next page (which will probably eat into bandwidth). Getting past that, even from the tutorial I can immediately tell that it's the usual F2P Facebook pish wrapped up with well-done artwork (which, admittedly, is good - that's how it's become so popular).

Looks like Ascension is still the best card game on iOS.

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Davros sock drawer

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Cheers, I'll give em a look.

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I just had a look through all the racers on the app store myself to see if there is anything new. I got really excited by Pocket Racers 2, which looks great, has L/R on either side of the screen, auto accelerate, and looks to have loads of modes and tracks.

Unfortunately the cars just stick to the track, it hasn't got the drifting that I look for in these sorts of games, but it might be worth a look.

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toythatkills

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The Sky is Falling is free. I don't know if anyone remembers that game from years back where you were a helicopter that flew left to right and moved down slightly each time you passed through the screen. You had to bomb skyscrapers on the way past because if you didn't, you'd get too low and crash into them.

This game is basically that, in reverse! You run along the bottom chased by that ball, and you have to destroy stalactites because the ceiling drops a little every time you pass through.

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Very nicely done.

Also, Feed Me Oil and Ticket to Ride Pocket are free too. Good day.

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Cheeko

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Unfortunately the cars just stick to the track, it hasn't got the drifting that I look for in these sorts of games, but it might be worth a look.

They all manage to do so much right but don't appreciate the nuances of the controls, i find that you either get stuck-to-the-track or permanent-slide which I hate. You need it to be grippy up to a point and then it breaks into a slide, which seemingly no one has done yet.

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Davros sock drawer

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They all manage to do so much right but don't appreciate the nuances of the controls, i find that you either get stuck-to-the-track or permanent-slide which I hate. You need it to be grippy up to a point and then it breaks into a slide, which seemingly no one has done yet.

Exactly. I don't know why no-one has grasped this yet. I got so excited by Pocket Racers 2, started a race, got to a corner and was like..."Oh. You actually can't skid round corners. At all".

Actually Retro Racing would be the best, except that it's in portrait (tiring on the iPad) and you can't have auto accelerate and L/R mapped to the L/R of the screen.

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Yasawas

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Does anyone have anything nice to say about Football Manager? I used to love it but gave up on the proper ones years ago due to the excessive fiddlyness they were introducing, if they can get something of the streamlined genius of CM01/02 running on my iPad I would be pretty happy about it.

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Kramer

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I love the Footy Manager Handheld series.

Get through seasons relatively quickly, feel like you're making a difference etc.

I always start with one of the lowest teams possible and like to macro manage, rather than micro manage - so suits me.

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Does anyone have anything nice to say about Football Manager? I used to love it but gave up on the proper ones years ago due to the excessive fiddlyness they were introducing, if they can get something of the streamlined genius of CM01/02 running on my iPad I would be pretty happy about it.

I think they're pretty damn close to that, in many ways I prefer them to what football manager has now become (good as it is).

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deerokus

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It's definitely stripped down to its benefit, and is much closer the old style games, rather than the newer ones (which are almost like Paradox sims in that they're complex simulations that you just have a role in). I think it's largely developed by one guy who has been with them since CM '97 or something.

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Rev

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Baldurs Gate 2?

I thought that Diablo had been announced just after Baldur's Gate, but clearly I made that bit up. Baldur's Gate is due in the summer anyway, to add a vague amount of content to this post.

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Nifta

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For retro fans, a remake of Target Renegade, called 'Tracking Renegade' has appeared. It's had a graphics spruce up but the gameplay is largely unchanged. It feels incredibly sedate, but that was how the original played I guess. The levels are a mixture of those from Target Renegade and Renegade. It has a two-player mode :)

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For retro fans, a remake of Target Renegade, called 'Tracking Renegade' has appeared. It's had a graphics spruce up but the gameplay is largely unchanged. It feels incredibly sedate, but that was how the original played I guess. The levels are a mixture of those from Target Renegade and Renegade. It has a two-player mode :)

Was it Swainy off here that was involved in a Target Renegade remake on the PC? Is this related?

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