It’s been a busy old week for mobile reviews over on our sister site Pocket Gamer. The first of 8 reviews was Happy Lines, a match the colours and make them disappear style puzzler that though varied enough, suffered from a fiddly control scheme and unforgiving difficulty curve capping its score at 6 out of 10.
A slightly more thrill filled offering followed with Pirates of the Seven Seas, a platform/action adventure romp with gameplay and presentation more slick than a deck covered in jelly fish. Its shortness was all the more acutely felt in light of how much fun it was to play leaving it with a 7 put of 10 score that could have been more.
The unsurprising highlight of the week was The Fast And The Furious: Fugitive which upheld the series’ unsullied reputation as being at the pinnacle of mobile racing games. Great visuals, plenty of modes and some frenetic highway horsepower butchery earned The Fast And The Furious: Fugitive 9 out of 10.
After that, the quality bar took a brief but deep plunge into the territory of mobile gaming we like to describe as ‘rubbish’ with an uninspired remake of Miner 49er managing to scratch a generous 4 out of 10.
Star Marine a solid top down Gauntlet style shooter and Office Wars, an accomplished and genuinely amusing office themed Sims like outing succeeded in bringing the week back on track with each game scoring a better than good 8 out of 10.
Frankie Dettori’s Horse Racing 07 however, failed to be the Championship Manager goes to the stables offering we were hoping for, limping across the finish line with 4 out of 10.
The last game was another puzzler to bookend a busy week. Unfortunately Honeycomb Beat proved to be a thoroughly hive like creature without even a decent sting in its tail to help set it apart from the crowd and was awarded an average 5 out of 10 as a result.
Check back next week for more mobile game reviews, same time, same place.
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