Free Iphone Applications

Rebel Onslaught Lite

Want to arouse the thousands of hardcore Apple gamers out there? Take a classic game, and put it on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Want to make your game appeal to an even bigger audience of people? Take a classic game, remake it so it’s modern, and then put it on the iPhone and iPod Touch. That’s exactly what game developers Xen Games ltd. plans to do with their latest App released. Called Rebel Onslaught, this game takes a very classic game version, reinvents it with modern graphics and gameplay, and puts it right in the palm of your hand (literally!). Today, we’re going to review the free version of said game, called Rebel Onslaught Lite.

The game starts with you and a computer partner soaring through space in modern space fighters, apparently combating alien drones who have started appearing from a massive portal that has suddenly opened up. You use your iPhone or iPod Touch to steer, and you can make your craft fly pretty lifelike by just tilting the device like a yoke. We loved this great idea from Xen Games, and we are delighted to see someone making good use of this great Apple technology. After a while, your partner leaves you to fight the rest of the drones itself. While they be hard for some people, it wasn’t really hard for us, as the craft is constantly shooting, whether you want it to or not, and you can just swerve around like a madman to shoot down the enemy. This then leads to a boss, and that is the end of the free game.

We would have really like this game, and we were sure it was going to be a blockbuster. The only reason we demote it is because it’s really short, and a novice can beat the game in under 5 minutes. For that reason, we give this game a sufficing 4 out of 5 stars.