Modern Combat series

Everyone likes playing Call of Duty. Its a really fun game but you can't always be in you house playing it like when your on the road or other places. The Modern Combat series is basically Call of Duty for the iPod. The game is very fun and addicting. The game takes place in the present with real guns and has good gameplay. Even better than the gameplay is the online multiplayer which is very fast paced and intense. All of the games in the series are very good. Modern Combat, Black Pegasus, and Fallen Nation are the three games in the series. The storyline features three playable characters, 15 weapons of all categories(you can upgrade your guns) and 12 missions. The multiplayer is very similar to Call of Duty because it has a rank system where you can rank up through 72 levels unlocking new weapons and other things along the way. The online is 10 people and there are free for all, team battle, demolition, and capture the flag to play.

I really like these games. They are very fun and pretty easy to get used to. The graphics are very good and the game lets you set up the controls however you want, which is very nice. The storyline is fun and the online is even better, just like Call of Duty you can save friends gamertags and play with them when they are online. All three games were $6.99 the last time I looked but if you like first person shooters I would recommend getting these games. The new one, Fallen Nation, is the best.

GT Racing: Motor Academy

After I tried Drag Racer I decided to try another racing game hoping that this one would be better than the last one. The game I found was GT Racing: Motor Academy. This was a free game on the app store and i am impressed with it. The game has good quality graphics and the gameplay is very good. The game features cars made from 30 different dealerships including BMW, Ford, Chevy, Audi, Dodge, Nissan, Toyota and Lamborghini to name a few. The game is pretty straight forward, you buy a starter car and you race and as you level up and move on to higher competitions you get better cars. One thing that is different is that you have to get a liscence to buy and race in certain things. To get a liscence you have to pass four tests. The cars are all cars made today and they handle in the game like they would in real life.

  As I said above I like this game. I would have figured that this game would have cost a dollar or two but its free. The game plays very well, there are no big glitches, and the graphics are very good. The races are fun and the courses aren't to hard but they aren't to easy either. The game also lets you tune up your car once you buy it. I like this feature but the only thing wrong with it is that they have to make the tune up selection bigger, right now there are only five or six things you can tune up on each car and that's not very much. That's really the only thing that i don't like about this game but for being free it really is good. If you like racing games at all I would suggest that you try this game.

Dead Space

Since today is Halloween I decided to do a "scary" game. The game I decided on was Dead Space. If any of you have ever played Dead Space on a console system you'll know the basic jist of this game. You play as a person who is referred to as "Vandal". The game takes place on a massive space city called "The Sprawl" where there is a mining operation going on. At the beginning of the game you are tasked with helping "The Church", which is basically just a cult. You begin to encounter these mutant humans called necromorphs which are basically super zombies. Once you find out what the church has dome you set out to fix and kill all the necromorphs.

I really like this game. It has just the right amount of fighting and puzzles in it, and all of the enemies you have to fight are different. You can't just start shooting at them and hope they'll die, they will all die from that eventually but they will kill you before that happens. You have to find out what each necromorph's ability is and then fight each one a different way. This game is a third person shooter, which means the camera is positioned behind your character so you can see your whole character. This game has excellent graphics and is very fun. It is $6.99 on the App store and I recommend it to anyone who likes sci-fi horror games.

Drag Racer

I kind of like racing games so I decided to try one for the iPod. The game I tried is called Drag Racer. It was a free game so I figured what the heck, I'm glad it was free. The game itself is ok but it definatly isn't the best. You just rev your car at the begining and shift as you go down the track, other than that you don't do much. I  do like the fact that you win money and can upgrade the cars you own and you can buy new cars. The game does have a wide variety of cars so that is nice.

The graphics of this game are okay, they don't compare to NOVA or COD Zombies but they are okay. I like racing games but this one was not the best. Next week I think I'll find a better one and use that. Most racing games are fun but I found one of the ones that wasn't good.

Bloons Tower Defense 4

Everyone has been in that spot before; you're sitting in class bored out of your mind supossed to be working on a project on the computer. You get bored looking at facts about whatever your writing about and you start playing games. Most people have at least tried Bloons Tower Defense 4 before. Its a simple game in which you have to buy towers and place them along a track. Balloons will come down this track and as they reach your towers the towers will start attacking the balloons. The object of the game is to stay alive as long as possible, with each wave of balloons getting a little harder than the last. There are a variety of towers you can buy and you get money for surviving waves and popping balloons. Each tower has three normal upgrades and one special upgrade that is only available after you pop a certain number of balloons.

I liked this game on the computer but I like it so much more on the iPod. On the iPod the game can be saved so you don't constantly have to keep restarting and there are a lot more maps then the computer. The game developers constantly update the game with new maps and other content. Usually for holidays they will add a new map to go with the holiday and they will change what all of the towers look like to mirror the holiday theme, an example of this is for Halloween the developers added a pumpkin map and changed all of the towers to look live vampires, mummies, and other such things. This game was a dollar when I got it and
I don't know if they have changed the price of it, but either way I would recommend this game to everyone.

NFL 2012

I don't usually like sports games but i know other people in my class like them so I decided to try one. The game I decided to try was NFL 2011. This game is very similar to the Madden games but is for the iPod. I have only had this game for a few days but I already like it. Just like in Madden you can play career mode where you chose a team and play as them for a season. If you don't want to do that and just want to play a single game you can play exhibition mode where you just chose a team and play a game right there. There are also so mini games you can play, one of which is pass mode. All you do is try to get the most yards by passing the ball  in four tries.

I like this game for being a sports game. The controls are simple and easy to use, to pass to a certain player all you have to do is just touch that person. to run there is a joystick, and the other things like tackling and sprinting, there are buttons. The graphics are decent; I've seen better on iPod games, but they aren't the worst. All in all I like this game and I will be playing it for a while. If you have an iPod and you like sports games give this a shot, there is a free version that you can try before you buy the actual game. The actual game was 3 dollars when i got it so it wasn't bad.

Call of Duty Zombies

Whenever I play Call of  Duty: World at War I always like to play Nazi Zombies. Zombies was a new fun thing to play and it helped keep the COD series fun and exciting. The one drawback to this is that I like to play zombies and I don't always have an X-Box. That's why I like zombies on the iPod a lot. The game is played the same and the levels are exactly the same. Someone could easily switch from the X-Box version to the iPod version and have no problem recognizing the maps. The only problem, and I don't think its much of one, is the controls. There are two joysticks on either side of the screen, just like with a console the left one is for walking and the right one is for looking around. There is an aim button so you can look down the sights, otherwise you can just shoot from the hip. Shooting is a little different, to shoot you have to tap the right joystick, its kind of weired at first but it soon becomes easy to do. When you play you can either play by yourself or you can play online with up to four people.

I like this game a lot, its one of my favorites. The graphics are really good for a handheld game, they still aren't as good as a console though. I like how the developers kept the game exactly the same, that makes it easy to switch from console to handheld very easy. I don't have Wi-Fi so I usually don't play online and I still like the game a lot but online is so much better! One person is fun but four is way better, and its even better when you have four people playing with each other in the same room. Its just like playing online on a console with the headset. My only dislike is that they don't ever update the game with new maps. If they did that this would be a close to perfect game.