iPad Games
August 24th, 2011 at 9:58 AM EST | by Oliver VanDervoort
With the lockout finally over, the National Football league is once again gearing up for a great season. But, you might ask how will you best be able to enjoy the upcoming season using your iPad? We here at iPadNewsUpdates have kindly put together the top five apps that will allow you to get full enjoyment out of your iPad this NFL season.
1. NFL ‘11 for iPad (Free)
NFL ‘11 for iPad is a pretty simple app that you really can’t do without. Completely free this app will give you a rundown of all the scores and highlights from every NFL game. The app will also give you a brief synopsis of the latest NFL news and you can select your favorite team to get updates specifically tailored to you.
2. Rotowire Fantasy Football Draft Kit 2011 ($4.99)
The NFL season is always a little more fun if you are playing fantasy football right along with the real games. We recently did a review of this app as the best Fantasy Football Draft preparation app out there and you won’t want to go into your draft without the aid of this handy dandy little iPad app. Read a more in-depth review from us on this app here.
3. Decision Maker – Football 2011 ($4.99)
Now that you have drafted your fantasy team thanks to the Rotowire Draft Kit and you’re getting for week 1 of the season, you need to figure out who should start and who should sit. The Decision Maker iPad app will allow you to plug in your entire fantasy football team and then will help you decide who should get the start that week depending on a specialized rating system the developers have come up with. Perhaps the best part of this app is that it does allow you to change the data around a bit and suggest who you should start based on “best start” and “best upside”. This means you can either go by the book or take a gamble.
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August 21st, 2011 at 2:46 PM EST | by Oliver VanDervoort
One of the truly cool things that the iPad has been doing more and more of is porting old and well loved video games from different platforms into app form. One of those apps that has recently been brought over from the computer game version is Sid Meier’s Pirates! for iPad. Meier is probably more well known for his many, many different versions of the Civilization games but Pirates was also well known an incredibly popular in its heyday and the fact that it’s now on the iPad probably means a renewal of that popularity.
By all appearances, the Pirates app is exactly what the original computer game was. You are a young swashbuckler who has just won his own ship from an evil pirate and from here on out you can choose your path over several decades. The app allows you to choose which nationality you want to be first of all and then you can sail the open seas however you see fit. The game allows you to either go on a specific mission to find the man who attacked your family or you can simply sail around, attacking people willy-nilly and taking their men, their treasure and their cargo and selling them at different ports building up a fortune. The game weighs in at just $3.99 which is just a fraction of what version of the full computer game would cost if you were to buy it for the Mac or Windows computer it seems to have everything those more expensive versions offer.
App Store: $3.99
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August 20th, 2011 at 3:56 PM EST | by Oliver VanDervoort
It seems like more and more iPad apps are trying to get as detailed and complicated as humanly possible. Perhaps the iPad is trying to compete even more directly with console games, but whatever the reason there are more apps than ever before with deep storylines that demand total attention at all times. While those types of games are fun for the hard core gamer, sometimes the average iPad user just wants to kill a little time. The new iPad app known as Zombie Gunship fills the bill as fun time killer quite nicely.
Zombie Gunship is a rather basic game in which you serve as a member of a gunship high in the sky firing down on legions of zombies that are all trying to get into the bunker you are defending. During the adventure you will also attempt to save the civilians (white outlines) from the zombies (black outlines). The graphics are made to look as though you are looking through an ultraviolet lens in order to see your targets at night and you are far away so there’s no blood, meaning older children can play this game without exposure to totally realistic violence (though the zombies still get blown up so…)
The game “ends” when the zombie hordes eventually elude your fire and get into the bunker. It is then a matter of how many zombies you killed in order to accumulate “dollars” that you can use to upgrade your guns for another go-round. While repetitive, the $0.99 price tag makes this well worth the money as far as time wasters go.
App Store: $0.99
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August 1st, 2011 at 1:55 PM EST | by Oliver VanDervoort
While there are all kinds of different “Tower Defense” games currently circulating on the iPad, there are very few which truly strike me as an original idea. Trenches: Generals is one of those that is familiar enough that you won’t have a real hard time picking up on it, while it is new and different enough that you will feel as though you didn’t waste your money picking it up. The basic premise is this: either as the British or the Germans in World War I you are to set up obstacles and deploy troops in such a way that you are able to reach the enemy’s stronghold while simultaneously making sure the enemy does not reach yours.
The fact that the game is based on World War I as opposed to other war games that seem to love to give the players the ability to take on the Nazis is only one of the many differences this particular game offers. The game, should you decide to play the campaign, guides you through several different missions with varying degrees of difficulty, all involving you steadily advancing your troops and making sure that you have enough troops in the front line that the opponent cannot advance theirs. As your forces move forward, you have different units that you can produce over the course of time, with one of the most important being those that can actually first add wood and then stone fortification of a trench, turning it from a simple shelter, into a forward operating base from which the new units you create will spring forth. Barbed wire, gunshots and even gas attacks give this particular tower defense title a kind of realism I could actually see upsetting some of the younger set, if they understand just what they are actually ordering their troops to slog through, but it is also these original obstacles that continue to make the game fun. At some point, as you advance through the campaigns, you will actually be able to order mortar and gas attacks from afar on the advancing enemy, giving even more uncomfortable but effective carnage.
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July 27th, 2011 at 1:09 PM EST | by Oliver VanDervoort
Who doesn’t remember dumping a couple of tons of quarters into the video game version of the incredibly popular NBA Jam. Back in the 90’s and early 2000’s there was nary a game quite as popular as NBA Jam simply because there was no other game that looked and acted quite like this one. The giant heads, the over excited announcer, the crazy slam dunks that would literally make your opponent go flying across the screen as you posterized him. Now all that action is back, only it is all on the iPad.
Actually, NBA Jam has been around on the iOS for quite a while, but the newest version is even more loyal to the game that video and console gamers so fell in love with. The best part about this particular game is that the graphics that show a tiny body and a big head might actually be a little better on the iPad screen than they were when you were playing in your neighborhood arcade. Everything else is virtually identical, as you can choose a particular team you want to take to the title, with the need to beat every other team as part of the path to victory. The players are authentic and before each matchup, you can pick any two players from whatever team you would like with the same old emphasis that the best way to win is to find one shooter and one shot blocker on the squad.
One of the coolest features of this particular version of the game is that you can also go out and use some old times, such as the Lakers’ James Worthy to help you down your road to glory, should you win enough games to unlock him. When you start the game, you will go through a tutorial that will show you the basic aspects of the game, including how to race past your opponents and slam dunk without getting that ball slapped back in your face. Once you have finished this mode, you can choose to either go down the old classic championship path, or go into the “Play now” mode in which you just choose the team you want to play as, the team you want to play against and who you want to play with.
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July 25th, 2011 at 12:54 PM EST | by Oliver VanDervoort
While the real baseball season has been in full swing for quite a while now, the digital season can begin anytime you want. If there has been one particular spot where the iPad has fallen short it is offering a really good baseball sim for those users who want to be able to play like they are on a console or even the computer without having to pay the high price or have to be at home in order to play. An app known as 9 Innings Baseball might finally be filling that bill.
While the game itself is not new, there have been a couple of recent updates that make it 10 times better than when it was first released and for people like myself who were desperate for ANY baseball sim games on the iPad it was pretty good back then. It appears that the developers of this particular game just noticed on day that they were really the only players on the market and knew that if they could improve their product just a little bit they could gain some seriously popularity. The main upgrade they made was updating the rosters to reflect the current, real Major League Baseball rosters without forcing fans of the game to buy a whole new edition as is the case with almost every sports game that is ever produced for the console or computer gamers. This means that had you laid out the meager $0.99 to buy the game for the iPad last year, you get to play the game as if you bought it this season.
The game has actually updated the rosters a couple of different times, with the latest update being from July 5th, meaning you truly do have some of the most up to date rosters around. Of course, being able to play with the real player’s name and the teams being able to have accurate rosters is nice, but if the game play isn’t remotely realistic or the graphics are bad, you’re still not going to have a real popular game. Fortunately, Com2Us kept this in mind and while the graphics certainly aren’t going to blow you away, they aren’t so basic that you’ll be disgusted either.
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