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I'd be devastated and would rush on here to tell everyone about it.

These games aren't given to you though, they're put out there and you have the option to try or not to try. And you don't even need to leave the house to do it. This isn't walking into town with £1.99 worth of saved up pocket monet to buy some crappy Mastertronic game which has got to keep you going for a month.

In a world of free and cheap games, there are great, good, ok and awful games a plenty.

I didn't say there weren't, I just don't think it's very balanced to be so put out by something which has cost you so little (or nothing). I downloaded a game at random the other day, it was called Zombiestan I think. You should all try it, it was laughably bad. But it was free, so fair play to it.

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(whispers) I don't mind the odd quarter pounder with cheese myself...

Davros I've seen pictures of your homemade burgers. Unless you are eating McDs to fully appreciate the glory of those beauties then you have just fallen far down in my estimations. :angry:

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I'm finding 100000000 (how many zeros?) pretty addictive. I'm spending about 30 mins on it every night.

Same. Last night I found myself stuck in a 'just one more round' loop until well after midnight. I found as long as you kept things moving it wasn't hard to progress.

The chip tunes in it are superb, they sound like proper .mod files and wouldn't sound out of place in some old cracktro from 1995.

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Davros sock drawer

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Davros I've seen pictures of your homemade burgers. Unless you are eating McDs to fully appreciate the glory of those beauties then you have just fallen far down in my estimations. :angry:

It's just a different thing. Same reason I don't mind instant coffee, it's just a different drink to real coffee.

Plus I'm a greedy, dirty slag.

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I think being free pretty much renders a game exempt from criticism, yes.

We're not merely consumers. Reviewers don't pay for any games, should they therefore not say what they think of them?

I can get books from the library and read them for free. Should I be unable to offer an opinion?

Films on TV, paintings in galleries?

Nonsense man, absolute twaddle.

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I'm finding 100000000 (how many zeros?) pretty addictive. I'm spending about 30 mins on it every night.

Like Lady Diana (God bless her soul), the game burns brightly but does not last very long.

Unless you like the endless mode, in which case you're sorted for life.

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New Judge Dredd game has come today- Judge Dredd : Countdown Sector 106. It's a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure / Fighting Fantasy type thing.

dredd_screen1.jpg

£2.99. Got it downloading as I type this so I'll let you know how it goes. (The game obviously, not the download process. Although that's going okay, thanks.)

Aaaand... it's pretty good. Slick interface, not too far into yet, some dodgy writing at the start but it's picked up, judging by the amount of info they dump on you about the sector at the start it looks like there's quite a bit of content. Just got hoodwinked by some juves over at the Ken Russell block as well.. :(

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Alex W.

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Seems a bit easy to me, surely? "Order the robot to stand down"? "Arrest the men"?

Really?

Retro Racing is 69p just now, BTW.

Edit- Not meant as a dig at the game, just that if you follow WWJDD surely the answer is always "shoot it".

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It's actually fairly good, with lots of different paths and such. Dredd blows away perps, brutalises juves with his daystick and arbitrarily strip searches random citizens to pass the time. I'd love a Strontium Dog or Rogue Trooper gamebook.

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Happy Street is out, the freemium Animal Crossing-ish town buildy thing.

It's a bit more complicated than I thought it would be (for a five year old at least). It's quite nicely done and I was surprised by how much is going on. Making sure daughter doesn't grab any IAP, some are £12!

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Ugh... I saw Metal Slug on the app store, not sure if it's new but it was free so I gave it a download.

I was almost sick in my mouth it was so bad!

I don't think it's an official Metal Slug game, assuming you're referring to Metal Slug Deluxe 2012. It's someone's knockoff. Did you read the info page on the app store? It looks like it was translated by someone on acid.

Metal Slug 3 looks legit, though.

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I don't think it's an official Metal Slug game, assuming you're referring to Metal Slug Deluxe 2012. It's someone's knockoff. Did you read the info page on the app store? It looks like it was translated by someone on acid.

Metal Slug 3 looks legit, though.

Ahhh you're right of course!

Went back to read the game description and it more than made up for the time I wasted on the crappy game itself! :lol:

★★★Game Introduction★★★

Metal Slug 2012 is a masterpiece of horizontal reel shot puzzle games made by Oye Faction. It was set in the end of year 2012 when all kinds of ghosts and demons living in the Third World wantonly attack the earth, plunder resources, control all the creatures and do all the evil things…..The earth is almost on the edge of extinction. The hero in this game has the responsibility of saving the earth, so he has to sneak into enemy’s home base and fight with them all by himself. More missions, more enemies, more dangers, and more fighting……All of these are waiting for our hero.

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Happy Street is really good. It's like the best bits of Tiny Tower and the best bits of Pocket Planes.

From Tiny Tower you've got a kind of goal, to build everything you can build, so there's something there to aim for.

From Pocket Planes you've got a degree of "strategy." Obviously there's no lose condition, as in PP, but there are better and worse ways to play that will speed up (or slow down) your profits and your overall efficiency. Shops get bonuses depending on where they are in relation to other shops and items. You can also buy things that are solely there to give your shops bonuses and have no income themselves, but is it better just to have another shop? And do you want your shops to have bonuses that means longer between restocks, or do you want frequent restocks to max out their levels quicker? Just a bunch of small decisions that actually have an impact.

The presentation is absolutely brilliant, and there are a bunch of other things going on like crafting and harvesting trees for wood and other stuff. There's also been a pretty decent stream of the premium currency so far, so it doesn't feel like I'm going to hit a paywall later, meaning I can just IAP when I want rather than being forced to - again a nice thing to take from Nimblebit's games.

Very good. Get it.

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