This isn’t a problem though, you will want to upgrade quickly in order to make the most of the exciting gameplay and the upgrades are worth having. You can spend points gained in the gameplay to buy these upgrades or (if you don’t fancy a grindfest) purchase upgrade points via in app purchases.

The main gameplay has you on rails flying in a mixture of street level and mid height courses, the tilt functionality will have you dodging a mixture of obstacles including oncoming vehicles, missiles, billboards and fighter jets. I usually hate any game that uses the tilt functionality however in Iron Man 3 these controls are tight and you feel in control of the action.

Your main foes are the forces of AIM in the guise of flying mechs, minor bosses (in iron man armor) and some standard drones that fire projectiles at you (they look like the probot droids from Empire Strikes Back) and you can fire blasts from your hands that fire directly at the enemy or a beam of energy that can cut through multiple enemies at a time.  Sometimes the game will require you to tilt the device to dodge enemy fire and attack enemies at the same time meaning you have you contort your fingers in a way that makes the touch screen difficult to utilize which often causes you to take damage or miss firing opportunities. This feels like a minor flaw in the game design.

One other minor complaint is that the game has very few levels.  The level you play in is randomly generated however there are only a few of them and you can regularly end up in the same one time after time.

Overall Iron Man 3 is a very good game and there is a hell of a lot to unlock if you dedicate time to it (or pay for it).  The game is great without the need to purchase anything though, sure you can get the Iron Patriot armor (one of the 16 you can unlock) but there’s plenty of gameplay available for free.  The gameplay is repetitive but it is also very exciting and graphically the game looks very good, especially in the menu and upgrade system.

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In Driver, you play as an underground NYPD detective who was chosen by the force for his impressive driving skills to infiltrate the filthy underbelly of four in-game cities. You will be tasked with a series of missions that will have you racing around the city, evading the police, and generally doing most of the things you do in Grand Theft Auto games without the ability to ever get out of your car.

The final version of the game available on the App Store seems absolutely identical to what we saw in Paris. If you’ve grown tired of the snack-sized game experiences that seem so widespread on the App Store (Not that that’s a bad thing, those are some of my favorite games.) then Driver is just what the doctor ordered.

Driver is a complete game with four massive real-world cities to drive through, and multiple endings. The original game was very well received, and aside from improvements to the graphics and tweaks to the interface, the iPhone port seems even better than the game I remember spending so much time with in the late 90’s.

I have to commend Gameloft for the great job they’ve done with this game, and I think I speak for iPhone gamers everywhere when I say I hope Gameloft continues to port more of these classic video games. If you like objective-based driving games, running from the cops, and getting air– Look no further than Driver.

App Store Link: Driver, .99

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Bailout Wars first came to our attention back in August for its topical twist to the castle defence formula. Unlike the long, drawn out recession, it’s short, sweet, and won’t break the bank.

The game puts you in charge of defending the White House and protecting taxpayers’ money from greedy bankers. As you flick away waves of relentless bankers, you earn coins that you to buy upgrades for your defences. These include a tank, a sniper, and Uncle Sam, who appears to be in control of a giant orbital laser for those national security crises that conventional bullets can’t fix.

Different bankers require different tactics. While the standard city minion can be tapped until he explodes or simply flicked away, briefcase-carrying bankers float safely to the ground when flicked and a CEO can only be damaged by the White House’s weaponry or by flicking bankers directly at his head.

Tapping makes sense in the early levels, where the slower pace allows time to experiment with the various death-dealing gestures. Strategy quickly goes out the window as the levels fly by, however, and you quickly find yourself rapidly swiping your finger across the screen praying for Uncle Sam’s weaponry to reload so it can relieve the pressure.

As you progress, the gameplay is repeated, with every level strangely similar to the last. This goes on until your fingers cramp and The White House is overwhelmed.

Some depth is to be found in poring over stats of your games and achievements to be collected. Amazingly, I had accumulated the vast majority of achievements after a quick play, missing only those that require extended periods of play (e.g., defeat 25,000 bankers).

Every time you play you need to start again from level one. Considering that the first couple of levels are fairly tedious it’s something that you should be able to skip. Bailout Wars would fare much better with a ‘save game’ feature incorporated so that harder levels could be re-attempted straight away.

It’s not all doom and gloom, though. The visuals are top drawer and the expressions of the bankers just before they pop are priceless. The audio is equally funny, with bankers and weapons producing incredibly satisfying yelps and blasts.

With just one game mode, only three upgrades and no sense of an achievable goal in the game, once you pass level ten you will have all encountered all five different types of banker and everything that Bailout Wars has to offer.

A final plus is that – unlike most of Gameloft’s previous titles – Bailout Wars is priced very reasonably at just 59p or $0.99 (we’re in a recession don’t you know). An appropriate price for a game that’s good enough for a quick 15-minute finger bash every now and again.

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