| The latest innovation from Apple is the iPod | | | | for a game but ultimately grows stale without |
| Touch. Released on September 2007, it promises | | | | more rules. Smooth, bold graphics are the biggest |
| to provide maximum entertainment to anyone | | | | draw. You might have the most fun just watching |
| using it. Aside from letting you view your favorite | | | | animated leaves blow into letters with the |
| videos and listen to your favorite songs, the iPod | | | | Visualizer mode. |
| Touch will also enable you to browse the internet | | | | - ROYAL SOLITAIRE - |
| thanks to its WiFi capability. | | | | Sharp design and great art make this solitaire |
| However, you have to consider that these | | | | bundle excel. Even the menu screens show an |
| applications are often not enough for people using | | | | animated character pointing at options instead of |
| the iPod Touch. If you want more applications, | | | | plain-text highlights. Once you deal the deck, 10 |
| you will see that the iPod Touch will have quite a | | | | games (including Klondike, Free Cell, and Yukon) |
| lot of downloading applications that can make your | | | | hold any solitaire fan interest. The scroll wheel |
| iPod Touch more powerful and do more things | | | | moves between cards, while the center button |
| for you. | | | | makes selections. This interface is sufficient, but it |
| The iPod Touch is not just your regular music and | | | | is sometimes hard to move through long stacks |
| video player. It is also a device from which you | | | | and quickly make a selection. Bonus: You can listen |
| will be able to play different kinds of games, you | | | | to your iPod music as you play. |
| will see that you will be able to have more fun | | | | - SUDOKU - |
| with it other than just watching your favorite | | | | The sudoku craze has subsided, but this iPod |
| videos and listening to your favorite music. This | | | | game nails almost everything we could want in |
| device will provide you with great entertainment. | | | | sudoku. Crisp menus and graphics elegantly |
| You will also see that there are a lot more games | | | | present thousands of these number-placement |
| available for it. To get these games, all you need | | | | time-killers. Beyond the traditional game, which is |
| to do is to surf the games for iPod touch, | | | | available in several difficulty modes, you can |
| download it from the internet to your computer, | | | | manually enter puzzles from a newspaper, book, |
| synchronize your iPod with your computer and | | | | or magazine. Using the wheel to scroll across the |
| install the games for your iPod Touch. | | | | 81 squares can annoy, but this complete puzzler |
| Although it may cost you some money to | | | | even lets you place possible solutions in a square |
| download the game, you will see that you will | | | | corners. The game can also solve puzzles for you |
| definitely have a lot of fun playing with the great | | | | when you are totally stumped. |
| games available for you iPod. Just a little review | | | | - THE SIMS BOWLING - |
| on few games for ipod touch. | | | | The Sims tie-in adds little depth to this simple but |
| - iQUIZ - | | | | fun bowling game. Players earn money to buy a |
| This is a slick game show with several trivia | | | | few small prizes a Sim might enjoy, but the focus |
| modes with stock movie, music, and TV | | | | is on bowling. At the lanes, time the center button |
| questions, but the Music Quiz 2 component is the | | | | with a few consecutive swinging meters to take |
| easy favorite. Players identify songs based on | | | | a shot. The right touch sets power, angle, and |
| audio clips, name an artist based on album art, | | | | spin. After a few warm-up rounds, we were |
| pick the year a track was released, and more. | | | | hitting strikes fairly often, but not easily enough to |
| Difficulty varies randomly with each question, the | | | | bore us. As a quick diversion, the bowling is fun |
| game does not know if it is playing a title lyric or | | | | even if you do not care about The Sims. |
| an obscure instrumental lull, but it generally hits the | | | | - THE SIMS POOL - |
| sweet spot between too easy and too hard. If | | | | Loosely tied to The Sims, the game has you |
| your tracks are fairly well tagged, this game is all | | | | create a basic character to play pool. Set up |
| hook. | | | | shots in 8-Ball and 9-Ball games by using the scroll |
| | | | wheel to move your cue to different angles. A |
| - LOST - | | | | separate aim gauge adds spin, and you time the |
| In an angled, top-down adventure game, you lead | | | | power with an on screen meter. The controls |
| Jack through several short events based on the | | | | work, except we wanted to stroke the cue stick |
| TV show. The interface works surprisingly well. | | | | with a back-and-forth wheel gesture. There are a |
| Players lightly press on the scroll wheel to move, | | | | few upgrades to earn and buy for your Sims |
| and tap the center button to get special abilities. | | | | characters, but the engaging game play will satisfy |
| However, the game is rarely interesting, even | | | | pool fans. |
| with show staples like the smoke monster and | | | | There are more available games for iPod Touch. |
| the mysterious hatch making appearances. Most | | | | All you need to do is choose the game that |
| of the action feels like you are running errands, | | | | appeals to you most and install it. With all the |
| many of which are unrelated to the show. | | | | available games for iPod Touch, you can be sure |
| - MUSIKA - | | | | that you will never run out of choices. |
| Musika artistically pushes colors and patterns | | | | So, if you are getting a little bored, why not |
| across the screen, slowly presenting a letter. If | | | | integrate some games in your iPod Touch. That is |
| the letter is in the title of the song playing, hit the | | | | also one great function of this device because we |
| center button to score. If not, pass with the | | | | all know that we have to maximize the features |
| forward or back button. Several consecutive | | | | of it. This also connotes that iPod Touch is not |
| answers catapult your points higher. This simple | | | | only for adults but it can also be for your children. |
| concept suits the iPod touch and almost works | | | | |