New iPhone Game Makes Your Friends And Family Sick!
Dr. Awesome, MicroSurgeon M.D.
I rest my case. Any game which can take itself that humourously with a name like that gets my vote. Rather than claiming to be the game that turns your iPhone into an arcade machine or redefine gaming and your life for only £1.19, Dr. Awesome is just plain fun.
Don’t be put of by the visuals coming off as a poor copy of Phoenix Wright and Trauma Center, both seminal Nintendo DS titles. This is certainly on purpose, and the tongue-in-cheek nature continues during your tenure as Dr. Awesome!
You play the hero, and you spend your time fighting off viruses and illnesses that course through the bodies of your various patients. The difference is…you know them all! The patients are names from your iPhone’s own address book, immediately lending the game a personal air and making it a lot more amusing!
So when your next patient is wheeled in, and it says that (insert name here) has a horrible fungus in their ear which must be removed STAT, it can’t help but to raise a smile on the most jaded gamer.
The actual gameplay is familiar to anyone that has played the classic arcade game ‘Qix,’ where you have to regain control of an area by sectioning off pieces of the playfield with your device whilst dodging foreign bodies. Acquire 75% of the level, and you move onto the next stage.
The game is fairly simplistic tilt-y based action, but combined with the hilarious comic narrative and the inventive use of contacts, Dr. Awesome is worth far more than the 59p sale price they are currently charging for it.
It is the latest title from start-up ng:moco founded by former EA guy Neil Young. They are one of the new developers that have sprung up to make the most of the iPhone’s App Store. It looks like they are doing a pretty good job so far, focussing on smaller and cheaper titles rather than the epics others have tried.
The sooner developers realise that quick fix gaming is what people want on the go, not a magnum opus spanning many hours,the quicker they will profit from the App Store.
Download Dr. Awesome now from the App Store.
Tags: app store, Apple, dr. awesome, iPhone, touch
love your piece. intellectually stimulating and informative.its to the point about why the game is great. great game and a great writer. you just recruited a new member for the game.