Creation is the name of the game with Apple’s revolutionary iPad. Whether you’re creating beats, finger painting, or writing the next great American novel, users all over the globe use the iPad to create nearly as much as they use it to consume media. This week we take a look at three big games that’ll have you creating as much as any creation app in the App Store. The games we chose run the gamut–from spiritual to downright toxic.
World of Goo
$9.99 on iPad
It’s not an exaggeration to say World of Goo might be the best game to ever come to iPad. It looks exactly like its incredible computer counterpart and feels even better. Nothing is compromised in its transition from five-star computer game to five-star iPad game.
So what is it? That’s a bit harder to explain. World of Goo has you building webby structures with balls of goo, avoiding obstacles like chainsaws, clicking on signs that reveal the backstory of the gregarious goo, and trying to reach a pipe at the end of each level. Epic feel-good music blasts in the background all the while. If that doesn’t sound appealing to you, you’ll just have to take our word for it: World of Goo is darn near flawless.
Spirits
$4.99 on iPad
Spirits is a gorgeous platform puzzler along the lines of Lemmings. Spirits are born, one after another, and you must guide them through countless perils to reach their destination in an ethereal swirl.
As is the case with so many games, pictures don’t do it justice. In fact, visuals are almost secondary to the beautiful and fantastical music that plays in the background; a flurry of harps and cellos orchestrate your journey as you guide the mushroom-shaped leaf spirits through the levels using a variety of transformations. Transformations will turn your spirits into ladders, clouds, boulders and more. The fewer transformations you use, the more Spirits will reach the end of the level (and net you an even greater high score).
Turn your Spirits into clouds to blow you over dangerous spike-filled chasms.
Sim City Deluxe
$.99 on iPhone or iPad
Truth be told, I never played Sim City before this iteration and after this video, I was apprehensive to start: a game this time consuming can be dangerous. But the good news is, I don’t have the patience to make a city that large. In fact, I don’t even have the foresight to make a little backwater city even really, well, work.
Even though I’m terrible (and I do mean terrible) at sustaining a city (even on easy mode), I’m happy to announce that failure has never been so much fun. Sim City Deluxe HD’s ability to tear down cities with all sorts of disasters (tornadoes, meteors… aliens to name a few) serves as a sort of instant out for Mayors that shouldn’t have been elected. Sim City Deluxe HD also has plenty of modes for the hardcore group too, ranging from seven different scenarios to a fairly advanced option set.
When all else fails, bring on the meteors. And Aliens. And blizzards.
That’s it for this week’s Game Time. If you’ve got a game you’d like to see in the next edition, leave us a line in the comments!
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