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Wall Of Sound offers a more attractive way of browsing all the latest music hits than simply looking through iTunes. The Wall Of Sound in question is a screen full of images displaying all the music that can be discovered via iTunes. In each case, the image leads to a preview of the track and then ultimately the option to buy the song from iTunes. For those who already own the revelant track, they can play it via the app.
With email and social networking sharing features as well as AirPlay and background play functionality, Wall Of Sound has it covered on the essential features front. Users in need of a random selection can just shake the iOS device to get a different bunch of tracks making it ideal for new inspiration. It looks particularly splendid on the iPad screen and is very easy to use.
Wall Of Sound is out now and it’s a free, universal app.
Wall Of Sound
Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Buy Now: FREE
Released: 2011-10-26 :: Category: Entertainment
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Based upon the real life event of the same name, Race of Champions is a racing event covering multiple disciplines. Rather than just testing drivers in the same car type, they’re pitted against each other in numerous different vehicles in a head to head battle for victory. It’s an ideal premise for a racing game and one I’m surprised hasn’t been implemented in a more mainstream way before this. 
Offering three different game modes, Race of Champions provides sufficient variety for the price. There’s a Duel Mode enabling players to challenge other real gamers in the online rankings as well as a Time Challenge mode, pitting racers against a ghost car in order to beat the best lap time. The real meat comes in the form of the Championship Mode with four different scenarios and four Championships at the ROC tracks in London, Paris, Dusseldorf and Gran Canaria. 
Arcade Jumper is a platformer that uses a lot of visual callbacks to retro games, with a semi-endless platformer gameplay design. Players run to the end of a level, jumping and shooting enemies, trying to collect warp coins to activate the exit back at the beginning of the level. No, it doesn’t make much sense until the game is actually played. Players try to collect coins and tickets to play minigames, unlock characters, power-ups, and even an extra game mode.
Arcade Jumper gets a lot wrong, structurally. First off, the random level generation makes no accounting for where the platforms are, leading way too often occurrences of where trying to hit a box to collect tickets or point bonuses is a way to a speedy death. It just shrieks “poor design!” The gameplay is just kind of monotonous, as levels don’t really change much, just the number of warp coins necessary to advance. As well, dying is so easy, and continues/extra lives so difficult to obtain that seeing the later parts of the game is practically impossible for all but the most dedicated player. As a particular iPad annoyance, the portrait orientation mode is nifty…but not as good as the landscape orientation mode, which is hidden in the extras menu. It doesn’t actually correspond to the actual device orientation, which is just particularly annoying if trying to play with screen mirroring.
Tones is easy enough to use that even children should be able to figure it out. The user is presented with a grid of sound pads that can be activated by tapping on them. Each provides a way of producing sound through a selection of different musical instruments. Tempo can be adjusted to further change things up and a series of waves, cycles of sound, can be produced, too. 
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Monster Burner manages to be both fast paced and strategic with players taking the role of a magician who must shoot fireballs at the flurry of monsters creeping down the screen. There’s a surprising level of depth to such an idea with the game successfully combining shoot em up, pinball and even pool elements. It’s thanks to a culmination of seemingly minor features that, once put together, creates a very potent title. While the player can just flick fireballs at individual monsters, it’s not long before mana resources, the main ingredient to throwing the fireballs in the first place, are depleted. It’s advantageous to line up shots to take out numerous enemies at once for more than one reason. A mana potion is supplied once taking out five foes at once. More importantly, points increase faster which means that other levels are unlocked more swiftly. As the game progresses, the player unlocks new benefits such as faster mana regeneration or a way of creating a temporary wall of fire. 
It’s all pitched just right. Early stages are easy to complete but take longer to truly master and gain a perfect score. Strategy plays an important role as different enemy types require subtle changes in how to tackle them, plus there are princesses that need rescuing and avoiding. In some cases, shots can be bounced off the walls further gaining better score multipliers. Other times, it’s useful to hold a finger to the screen for longer thus creating a larger fireball to unleash upon the monstrous horde. It’s all simple yet so compelling and I’ve not even got to the best part: the leaderboard integration. Each level begins displaying the leaderboard but it’s how it’s implemented within the stage that makes the difference. Names pop up instead of a monster when it’s clear a score will be beaten making it somehow feel more personal. I found myself wanting to be better simply because of the knowledge that someone across the world would see my name as a target to beat. 
Buying online has always been something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s convenient. On the other, there’s lots of potential for thievery. Of course, nowadays there are all manner of anti-theft measures in place and purchases have been made even simpler with payment info storage and the like. But what about those spontaneous instances of shopping need where there’s no computer present? Well that’s what 
Poker Pals HD combines poker with Words With Friends. The goal is to lay down cards on a 7×7 board, trying to make poker hands. Hands range in value from 10 to 80 points, with a 10 point bonus for each card used that directly affects a hand. Gameplay is turn-based, as each player lays down a hand from the 1 to 4 tiles that they lay down. Players can play against Game Center friends, random opponents, the computer, or with local multiplayer.
Some of the rules don’t entirely make sense, like how some rows can’t be extended on. Basically, a card can’t be added to the end of a set of cards on the board, with a new hand played in a different direction; think like adding an S to the end of a word in Scrabble, then forming a new word in a different direction from that. Sometimes it can be done, sometimes it can’t. It makes sense to me at times, but then others, it doesn’t. It’s not entirely an intuitive ruleset. The lack of added value for higher rank cards feels kind of odd, as if this element of poker was left out entirely because it couldn’t fit; there’s just something that always feels odd about this not being the case, and I feel like I’m always trying to play higher-value cards when in reality, they don’t actually matter.