Previews

There’s a reason why the Assault Squadron trailer made the cut as one of our featured videos last week. Not only does this shooter sport a serious visual package, but the scale and density being hinted at seem extremely promising. Looking like a supercharged update of Gradius, Assault Squadron seems to have all the ingredients to be something special. Fresh off of spending our weekend plowing through a preview build, it’s time to share our hands-on impressions.

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Cellphone gamers in Korea have been playing it for months, beta testers are currently putting it through its paces on iPhone, and today we finally got our chance to try Zenonia 2 at GDC. We’re impressed that Zenonia 2 manages to improve on the original in nearly every meaningful way.

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iPhone gamers love options. After all, there are tens of thousands of them competing for the dollars in your games budget. With that in mind, Bulkypix and Magic Pockets have an offer for you: Take Call of Duty: World At War: Zombies, subtract about six or seven dollars from the price tag, add more zombies, OpenFeint high scores, and bring the setting up to modern times. It may not have online multiplayer, but that still sounds like a good deal to us.

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Should you think 2D shooters has been executed in every possible way, Engineous Games wants you to think again. Sketch Nation Shooter isn’t about having you play a predetermined set of levels created by the developers. Sure, that element is there, but the crux of this experience is based on providing users the playground to deliver their own visions and sharing them with the world.

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We've updated our preview with hands-on video of Pocket Creatures from GDC. See what goes into growing a garden in this very strange, wonderful virtual pet simulator.

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In addition to new Splinter Cell screens, we just received the latest Zombie Infection screens as well. Sure, it looks just like Resident Evil 5, but that doesn't mean we're not eager to play it more.

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This morning we received the first-ever batch of screenshots for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction on the iPhone. Check them out!

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Street Fighter 4 is now available on the App Store for $9.99, in a surprise announcement made at GDC. Enjoy your classic 2D fighting, and we'll have our review available for you soon.

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We've updated our preview with new hands-on video! Check it out to see what this episodic PS2 brawler looks and plays like on the iPhone.

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Kepa's revealed the final name of the game to us: QuickHook. Avalanche Game, it was nice working with you, but you're now relegated to the same trivial spot in history shared by Blue Harvest, the working title of Return of the Jedi.

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Glu's got a good grip on flying games. Their last two, Glyder and Glyder 2, were both considered Must Haves by our reviewers, and the original even won our very first Game of the Month almost a year ago. Now they're lending Dreamworks their flying game developer chops with a tie-in to the upcoming movie, How To Train Your Dragon.

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Ever wonder what you’d get if you took the hugely popular air traffic controller-themed games and sprinkled them with a little survival horror? Not sure what that’d look like? Based on our time with it, Viqua Games may have found an interesting niché to settle in with their upcoming title, Zombie Escape.

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According to the Apple naysayers, the App Store is so full of crap that good games have no shot at being successful. Fortunately, there are studios like Finland-based Traplight Games that don’t subscribe to that pessimistic point of view.

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One of the recent cult classics on iPhone was a unique effort from the team at Backflip Studios, called Ragdoll Blaster. Ragdoll Blaster took an amazing physics engine and created an engaging title that threaded the line between being a shooter and a puzzler. Though Ragdoll Blaster was excellent in virtually every aspect, its most impressive accomplishment was delivering dozens upon dozens of imaginative puzzles to conquer. With Ragdoll Blaster 2, that legacy aims to be faithfully recreated and expanded upon. From what we’ve played, it seems to live up to its predecessor.

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Gamerizon, developers of the adorable Chop Chop Ninja, have informed us that they're currently developing two new games to expand the Chop Chop series. While Chop Chop Runner does seem to pull some influence from Ninja, Chop Chop Tennis seems to be its own beast entirely, drawing only minor graphical influences from the first in the series.

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We recently spent a few hours playing through the first part of FDG’s upcoming RPG, Across Age. It’s an action-RPG in the style of Zelda or Zenonia, but with several changes, good and bad, that we think help it stand out from convention.

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World War 2 shooters have been done to death on consoles, and most gamers are probably burned out on the genre. We certainly felt that way when we walked in to play Gameloft’s Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front for the iPhone and iPod Touch. To our surprise, this is a quality first-person shooter that fits nicely with the style Gameloft pioneered with Modern Combat: Sandstorm and N.O.V.A.

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Yes, we touched one. We tilted it, turned it over, and lovingly scrolled through its apps. It’s the iPad, and it’s like four iPhones arranged in a grid—twice as long and twice as wide. After the iPad, our iPhone just doesn’t feel adequate.

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It's always a breath of fresh air when a new type of game comes to the iPhone. Since we are constantly inundated with puzzle games and shooters, it's rare that we see something completely different. Such a game is headed to the App Store next month: Gamevil's Vanquish: The Oath of Brothers. We recently got our hands on a preview build of the game, which solidified in our minds that this is one to keep an eye on.

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Today we had some exclusive hands-on time with a new title from Glu Mobile: a turn-based strategy game set in the world of Transformers. That’s the original cartoon, not the recent movies with Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. Score one for nostalgia, minus one hundred for Michael Bay.

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