iOS recommended games and applications

[EvilBoris]

I've always found them to be unstable, not worth the risk of my phone crashing. I jail broke my iPad too, but it broke text rendering in iBooks

[Lebowski]

Apples 12 days of christmas app has been pretty bad so far this year, free downloads for coldplay, one direction, lady ga ga and david Ge-whats-his-name, i would of picked up sonic racers but it was 69p recentley and i allready had it, i know i shouldnt winge at free stuff but it really has gone down hill this year.

[gospvg]

It's been a mix of music, books, tv shows & apps. I'm sure new iphone owners loved it.

[Brad]

The only reason I want to jailbreak mine is to run my own code on it but all the instructions I've found for doing that seem out of date and unlikely to work on a 5.01 device with the latest XCode :-(

[Dogg Thang]

The only reason I want to jailbreak mine is to run my own code on it...

>10 PRINT "BOOBIES!"
>20 GOTO 10

[Brad]

It's illegal to reverse engineer my code you know!! I can see I'm gonna need to DRM that

[hoyteamx]

Has anyone played a game on the iPad and then played the same game on the iPod touch and found it particularly inferior?

Just wondering since I got an iPod touch for Christmas but most of the ios talk these days seems to revolve around the iPad.

[Dogg Thang]

Haven't really found that. The iPad is great for its screen size but sometimes the small size of the iPod can be an advantage. I actually found Sword & Sworcery better on the smaller device, for example. But then other games are too covered up by fingers on the small screen. Guess it depends on the game. Power-wise, the iPad 2 seems to beat the iPod Touch but there's not much in it. I have an old Touch and even that holds up very well compared with the iPad.

[Brad]

Scrabble. Plays great on wife's ipad but very fiddly on iphone (as you might expect I suppose).

[gospvg]

Has anyone played a game on the iPad and then played the same game on the iPod touch and found it particularly inferior?

Just wondering since I got an iPod touch for Christmas but most of the ios talk these days seems to revolve around the iPad.

If you have a new 4th gen ipod touch - it is powerful. Forget about the ipad sit back & enjoy what you have ahead of you is hours of fun & entertainment - enjoy

[hoyteamx]

Yep, i have the 4th Gen iPod touch. Awesome to hear most things (besides the obvious) work well on it. Gonna download a bunch of games and give them a whirl!

[Coheed]

If you own an iPad do yourself a favour and buy SpellTower, it's amazing. It doesn't work as well on the iPhone because of the smaller screen but it's still worth playing; it's almost like Scrabble and Tetris at the same time.

[toythatkills]

It's fine on the iPhone. The mode where you have to make words as quick as possible probably won't be as good as on the iPad, but the game's all about Puzzle mode, and in that one you've got all the time in the world so there's no downside to the smaller screen whatsoever.

Agreed that it's a great game, though. It's like drop7 with words.

[Coheed]

Wooords is also a fun game and free for a day: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/wooords/id413308545?mt=8

You are given 6-8 fridge-magnet type letters with one glowing letter, with that glowing letter you've got to create words by arranging them in different ways. The regular price is ?1.50 so get it while you can.

[Lebowski]

Justin Smith's Realistic Summer Sports Simulator

Well It looks like a really bad Atari2600 game its controls are aufull and upon buying this you only get access to four events you have to pay 1.99 to unlock the rest via an in app purchase which is pretty stupid and a little bit cheeky. It's supposed to be terrible mind as its from the guy who made envirobear, still dosent stop it being lots of fun. My favorite events are, the pole vault where you controll the poll, and the archery where you use a spring to slap arrows against the side of a Target, all the controlls revolve around some sort of spring mechanisms, and once you work them out there is a skill to getting good scores in the events.

It's a real shame it isn't free with an in app purchase for the extra levels as i think in its current form people will be put on the back foot which is a real shame as I haven't laughed so much in ages.