You can also use dollars earned in game to customise your pizza with everything from different toppings, to hats, to varying faces, or even turn the pizza itself into entirely different round object, like a bagel. The three-star system also adds a great amount of replayability to the levels. And because levels are unlocked based on a star system (each level gives you the opportunity of three-star completion), if there’s a mode you find too challenging or don’t like, you can go ahead and skip it entirely. The thing to note is that through clever variations, no level of the same mode is ever the same as the one before it and that the controls remain solid throughout. There are many more, but this entire review would become a list. Bouncing off brains to crush planks, slamming into buildings attempting to avoid civilians and bring down skeletons, freeing puppies from prison, boss fights in which giant skulls and giant pizza are locked in a battle to throw each other off a cliff, and a parody of angry birds, in which the pizza has to destroy some simple buildings to destroy the skulls inside. As the levels progress new enemies are constantly appearing requiring your pizza to jump, slam the ground, and roll it’s humongous heart out to avoid getting skewered by all manner of undead creatures.īeyond that, there are a ridiculous amount of other modes involved in completing the game. The “core” gameplay (as in the first mode you play and the one to feature most heavily, though it still appears for less than half of the adventure) involves rolling the pizza in a small arena, crushing various skeletons. This confrontation always involves using tilt as the main means of navigation for the gargantuan, rolling Italian dish, but the controls are just about all that’s similar between the different game modes. Skeletons features one hundred levels of a giant pizza confronting the undead. Skeletons puts some full retail games to shame, and the quality remains high throughout,making this a must buy for anyone who loves portable gaming. The amount of content and variety packed into Pizza Vs. Not because there’s anything wrong with the game in fact, it’s the first iOS game of 2012 to truly enrapture me. It’s satisfying, strange, and - almost exactly like a giant-sized, high-speed pizza - surprisingly hard to top.Platforms: iPhone (reviewed), iPad, iPod Touch Skeletons serves up an impressively designed, irresistible slice of visceral mayhem. It’s a visual treat, with sumptuously detailed and appropriately off-kilter artwork - and its looks are ably matched by a catchy soundtrack that’s as schizophrenic as the rest of the game. That sublime sense of absurdity is bolstered immeasurably by Pizza Vs. Skeletons belches up, though, its finely tuned tumbling ensures it’s always an absolute blast.Īnd any game that rewards your hard-earned victories with a chance to turn your bog-standard pizza into a cowboy hat-wearing doughnut with vampire teeth and fairy wings is okay with us. No matter what deranged objective Pizza Vs. Next, you’ll be thundering over trenches scouting for puppies or careening down snow-covered mountains with skeletal skiers in tow. In one level, you’ll be smashing through waves of skeletons in a mildly strategic take on the side-scrolling beat-‘em-up. Developer Riverman Media has crafted an array of delightfully bizarre mini-games around its wonderfully tactile setup - frequently surprising in their creativity, yet rarely overcomplicating the game’s robust core. It’s got an irresistibly chaotic charm as you hurtle violently across the game’s 100-odd stages. It’s satisfyingly tactile and wonderfully responsive - easily offering one of the best implementations of tilt-controls we’ve seen on iOS. Tap again and it crunches to the ground, usually in a blaze of broken bone. Tilt your iOS device and your pizza thunders back and forth with glorious, weighty precision. Skeletons is a game about big round things doing what big round things do best - rolling. Skeletons features a colossal pin-wheeling dough ball and a troop of undead antagonists, but they’re mere daft dressing on a mini-game collection that’s build around a simple, elegant, and dizzily entertaining core.Īt its heart, Pizza Vs. Actually, while you’re at it, forget the skeleton part too. Forget the pizza part of the equation for a minute - it’s irrelevant.
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