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.)