Not long reviews. Just something to give iPhone (and perspective iPhone owners) an idea of what's out there and whether it's worth bothering with at this early stage in iPhone game development. All opinions below are my own. all screenshots were taken off my phone. If you have a question, leave a comment.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

It's a good looking game and pretty fun. It's on rails, meaning you don't control where the character goes. you only control combat decisions by drawing patterns with your finger on the screen. Good looking graphics, servicable sound. Game does save on return to home.

Dream's opinion: pick it up

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Big Bang Board Games


Big Bang is a compilation of games (Chess, Checkers, Reversi, Mancala, 4 in a row, Backgammon, Tic Tac Toe). Professionally done and beautifully executed, I'd recommend this suite of games to anyone who enjoys the above games. I can't speak to the difficulty level of the AI in the games, but there is a "Master Difficulty" and option to choose if the player or AI goes first. No 2 player options.

Dream's opinion: pick it up


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Monkey Ball


Monkey ball is a true Monkey Ball game. Personally, I find it a bit difficult to control with tilting, but you may enjoy it more like that. great graphics and high production value.

Dream's opinion: pick it up, if you like Monkey Ball. others will find the controls a turn-off, I suspect.

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Texas Hold'em

High quality Texas Hold'Em game with varying levels of challenge (indicated by "cost" to play in each venue). provides single player and online multiplayer gaming. If you like Texas Hold'Em, your choice here is clear. It's a must.

Dream's opinion: pick it up

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Blackjack 21

Decent blackjack game. Simple to play with clean graphics. Even has random achievements. lol.

Dream's opinion: pick it up if you need blackjack.

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Tap Tap Revenge

Let's face it: this app was better when it was only available for jailbroken phones. There was a time when this app allowed you to take any song in your music library and add your own taps to the music. then you could go back and play them. Big fun. Now, you have to select from the handful of songs they have available that you probably won't like. In genres that you might not like.

if they go back to allowing users to use their own mp3's to play songs, this app will go back to being made of win. But as it is now, it feels like an empty shell of what made it great. too bad.

If I could still get the old version, I would.

Dream's opinion: pass for now.


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Tetris

Professionally made by EA, it's good old Tetris as you'd expect it to be. Nothing more, nothing less.

Dream's opinion: pick it up


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Critter Crunch

an unusual puzzle game in the vein of Tetris, where you feed smaller critters to bigger critters in order to get them to over-eat, explode and blow up adjacent critters of equal size. It makes more sense when you see it. Think Bejeweled and Tetris crossed.

Dream's opinion: pass

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Line Rider

It's Line Rider. lol. iPhone edition allows you to share your tracks or download tracks from others via your linerider.com account. Extra options include Draw & Pan, Night Ride, and Gravity Tilt.

Dream's opinion: pick it up

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Funky Punch

The first fighting game for the iPhone. It's pretty cute and pretty functional.

Dream's opinion: pass unless youre desperate for a fighting game.

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Brain Challenge


Another game with very high production value. If you're into DS games like Brain Age or Brain Training, this is a game to have. Just as good as if not better than those. All the same kinds of features as those games.

Dream's opinion: pick it up

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Stone of Destiny


Ultimately, it's something of a Where's waldo game with a timer where you find objects in a picture. Some objects are genuinely hard to find. Cool "passing the time" game. Pretty high quality production in this game. game does save on return to home.

Dream's opinion: pass

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All in all, there are some good games and some misses. Brain Challenge stands out as the biggest winner. Star Wars, Texas Hold 'Em, Big Bang and Monkey Ball are also excellent options.

Considering devs only began bringing games to the platform 3 months ago, I expect the future of iPhone gaming to be bright indeed.