Mobile Gaming: Gaming on the go has never been easier, and even we're not immune to the lures of pwning Black Ops zombies on the iPad...
Something occured to me the other night - I game more on my iPad than I do on either my PS3 (gathering dust in the corner), or Xbox (a trusty Halo edition model, currently serving my love of Skyrim very well). I still spend much more time on the PC, but iOS gaming takes up a non-insignificant amount of my leisure time.
So, given that I'm quite certain I'm, not the only one... let's make it official - iPad gaming is cool. So there. And we're going to start regularly (man, I hate saying that, because I know it's going to end up anything but regular) looking at some of the better looking iPad games each week. On a Friday. Thus... you get the picture.
Sometimes we'll look at stuff we're currenly playing, other times we'll pick out likely suspects from the new release pile (it's a metaphorical pile, by the way). It could be old stuff, it could be just interesting stuff we think is worth pushing because of pictures of pretty people in corsets (seriously, Bungie Aerospace's Crimson: Steam Pirates is totes cool - kids still say totes, right?).
And this week, it's a game we're going to go home and download tonight: Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies.
It could easily argued that zombies have been done to un-death, but we think there's unlife in the old monsters yet, and certainly the combination arcade shooter and FPS that is Black Ops Zombies looks like a lot of fun.
The app has been build from the ground up for iOS by IDeaworks Game Studio, and features the original Black Ops map Kino der Toten and 50 levels of Black Ops Arcade, a top down zombie apocalypse in the making. The game's got more content in the pipe, and also boasts four player co-op with full voice chat.
Not bad, even if it is CoD.
Issue: 137 | June, 2012