Magic Piano (iPad)

There is finally a way to play piano, without actually knowing how to play piano. They've tried before with lighting up keys and such but, that was still confusing. Magic Piano has sparkling green dots that show where you are going to press, and a light from the top of the screen that shows you the general area you should be tapping. This type is called songbook. There is also freestyle, duet and world. In duet, you're not actually playing with someone on the same device, it connects to someone else around the world, and you do freestyle. In world, you get to listen to someone around the world play piano.

Price: $2.99

Rating: 9/10

Mirror's Edge (iPad)

If you read my update 4/26/10, you will know that my dad has an iPad now, which I can use. So I decided for my first review of an iPad app, I would do Mirror's Edge. Mirror's Edge is also available for the PS3 and Xbox 360, but was somehow ported to the iPad. The game looks great and is easy to navigate through the pages of the home screen. In the beginning you will go through a tutorial that teaches you everything you know, which is just which swipe movements that control your character, Faith. There is also a multiplayer mode. This app is pretty expensive at the moment but you need to remember, this is a full video game ported to a pretty mobile device. I bet in a few weeks, the price of this game will go down.

Price: $12.99

Rating: 8/10

NotifyMe

NotifyMe is kind of like the clock app that comes with all iPod touches and iPhones. The difference is that you can have more detailed alarms. Now the clock app is great and I could use it for the same thing, but, it just feels better to seperate permanent reminders with the clock app, and temporary reminders with NotifyMe. NotifyMe also has a categories option such as school and personal. I don't ever use this because I figure if I write what the reminder is for, I don't need to put it in a category. I use the free version of NotifyMe. The only difference between the free version and the paid version is that when you start it up, it makes you wait 20 seconds and you can only have 3 reminders set at a time. It's not a big deal unless your really busy and can't remember anything.

Price: free
Rating: 8/10

Red Ball (pro)

Red ball is an awesome 2d platformerer, puzzle type game. Your just a lil red ball that has to reach the square flag. Along the way, there are triangular flags which are checkpoints. These are important because you will probably die a lot, but when you do, you get to respawn at the checkpoint. When you fall off the platform or get stabbed by spikes, you die. Red ball is kind of like a trial version to Red Ball Pro. In regular Red Ball, you get the first 7 levels, the rest are locked until you pay for the pro version.

Price: free
Rating: 9.25/10

(here is the link to the free version to see if you want to upgrade to the pro version.)

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Eliminate

Eliminate, also known as Eliminate pro, plus and others. I'll explain why later. Eliminate is a very fun and free FPS. Now you're probably thinking that because it's free, it's bad but you are totally wrong, this is a great looking game on your device and plays almost perfectly. The reason they can make this game free, is because the set up is different then a game that costs. Every two hours, you get a charge. It takes 3 charges, or 6 hours, to get fully charged. When you are charged, you earn credits when you play/kill. When you get credits, you can buy new armor, new weapons or upgrade what you own, Thus making you better. The game is online. The only option for online play though is a four person free for all death match, which is fine considering it's a mobile game. At first, you're going to die a lot when you play online, but after a while, it gets extremely fun and you won't be able to wait the two hours for your charge. And that's another great thing about this game, you don't need to wait the two hours for your charge, you can play online for fun but you won't earn any credits. Although this game sounds great, there's still some problems. The main one, connection. It takes a while to connect to the home screen which is kind of pathetic, and this is on a very good WiFi connection. Trying to connect over a 2g or other network is horrid. The worst though is when they connect you to a game and you have your charge, but then your connection randomly decides to suck mid game. This is especially bad because then you do bad and your charge goes to waste. However, there is a way to charge up without waiting. You can earn power cells by downloading certain apps that they tell you to download and they will have you log in, and they will add the power cells to your account. You can then use your power cells whenever you want to get energy. If you want a challenge, (if my connection doesn't suck and I'm not totally lagging,) then feel free to add me on Eliminate, my name is drooney.

Price: free

Rating: 9/10

Traffic Rush

Traffic rush is a great, simple game and I highly suggest downloading it. All you have to do is direct traffic through an intersection. You do this by either swiping your finger to speed up a car, or touching the car to stop it. This game also gives us some extra fun stats, such as seeing how long you have played the game and how many cars you have saved. Traffic rush is another great free game by donut games.

Price: free
Rating: 9/10

TouchGrind

There's skateboarding, there's skateboarding video games, there's finger boarding and yes, now there is a finger boarding video game. Touch Grind. All you do is move your fingers around on the screen, as if they were your feet and your screen was your skateboard. It's kind of fun for a while, but I don't find myself coming back to this app a lot. The user interface on this app is pretty unique. It's not just a list of things, it's a wheel that you spin to go to the different sections. The sections are: Warm Up, Jam Session, Competition, Options, About and How To. Warm Up is pointless. It's the same as Jam Session except it doesn't score you, or save your score. Competition is when you do as many tricks as you can in 100 seconds. This is the only way to unlock boards. In my first and only Competition session, I unlocked six boards, not including the Noob or TouchGrind boards. So basically I beat more than half the game in under two minutes. There is only 15 boards as of now and the only difference I have noticed is the look. Options is obviously the options menu. It allows you to turn the sound effects on and off, invert kickturn, submit your online score automatically and change your online name. No one cares about the About menu, but i'll tell you about it anyway. It tells you that this app was made by illusion labs and it gives you their website name. The How To section is very useful. It gives you a video tutorial of how to move your board, the basics, ollie, pop shuvit, do flips, railslides and how to combine tricks. It's a very nice addition to the app. This app has been around for a while now and the price hasn't changed. This is the first app that I bought and am not totally satisfied with for the price.

Price: $4.99

Rating: 6/10 (only because for the price, they could have done a lot more.)