Crazy Taxi City Rush
is another free game in which you need to put "free" in big quote
marks, as it's packed to bursting with subsequent in-app purchases to
unlock features, buy customisations and, in a particularly shameless
move, buy petrol for your taxi to continue playing after more than a
handful of failed runs. Still, endure the cash-grab and it's a pretty
game, one that uses a new, simple, swipe-based control system to allow
it all to work surprisingly well on a touchscreen.
6. Monument Valley (£2.49, $3.99, $AU4.90)
A very, very pretty game, this. Monument Valley
is based around the weird sort of impossible geometric shapes
popularised by artist M. C. Escher, with its colourful maps bending and
rotating in ways that appear to defy the laws of nature. You walk on
walls, flip them, turn them into floors, avoid crows and marvel at how
beautiful it all looks. A short game with only 10 multi-layered levels,
but a joyful ride
Modern Combat 5: Blackout
We
get moaned at a lot for putting too many silly, quirky little games
about shapes and animals and organising letters of the alphabet in this
list. So here's one about men with guns shooting each other in 3D. Modern Combat 5
the latest in Gameloft's mobile homage to grown-up home console FPS
franchises, in which you gun about the place alone or in online
multiplayer matches. Nice to see Gameloft offering everything in a
one-off install here, rather than packing it with in-app purchases.
