In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
Capcom’s iPhone version of Street Fighter IV leads the App Store’s top-grossing sales chart in its first week of release. Ludia’s adaptation of the Where’s Waldo? puzzle book series rises to second place after dropping in price to 99 cents over the weekend, as last week’s chart winner Monopoly falls to third.
Square Enix’s Final Fantasy also drops several spots, landing at sixth place after taking second last week. Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War Zombies maintains steady sales at fourth place, while PopCap’s Bejeweled 2 follows at fifth.
EA’s Rock Band overtakes Plants vs. Zombies in today’s sales rankings, meanwhile, as Tetris and Words With Friends hang on at ninth and tenth place.
Ngmoco has released an updated version of its free-to-play online multiplayer first-person shooter Eliminate Pro. Eliminate: Co-Op allows players to team up in a new online gameplay mode for additional gear and bonus items.
The new “Co-Op Extermination” mode is a timed challenge in which player-controlled teams take on endless hordes of AI opponents. Players can earn armor, weapons, and items from destroyed drones, while any duplicate loot can be recycled for in-game credits.
Eliminate: Co-Op includes both manual and automatic global matchmaking, and features 10 playable maps.
Co-Op retains Eliminate’s free-to-play model, in which each player’s Power Cells deplete over the course of several matches. Gameplay continues once all Cells are exhausted, but players will not be able to keep earned experience and items afterward. Additional Power Cells can be purchased in downloadable packages ranging in price from $1.99 to $32.99.
Japanese shoot-’em-up developer Cave has opened a new website announcing the upcoming release of Espgaluda II for the iPhone.
Originally released in arcades in 2006 (and ported to the Xbox 360 last month as Espgaluda II Black Label), Espgaluda II is a vertically scrolling shooter that features lots and lots of candy-colored bullets. How many bullets? About this many.
Yes, it’s one of Cave’s infamous “bullet hell” titles, designed in the tradition of notoriously difficult games like Mushihime-sama and DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou. If you’re willing to die many deaths before you get a feel for dodging enemy attack patterns, these are the games for you.
Espgaluda II follows up on Cave’s iPhone-exclusive action title Mushihime-sama Gaiden: Bug Panic, which still has not yet been released as of this writing. Given Cave’s recent experimentation with region-free Xbox 360 releases, a U.S. App Store release for both titles is all but assured.
XS Games announced today that it will bring its acclaimed PlayStation 2 shooter The Red Star to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and PSPgo platforms this spring.
Having played through the original PS2 version, I can confirm, officially, that this is awesome news. The Red Star plays like a mix of Neo Contra and Final Fight; you can lock on to faraway enemies and blast away using an arsenal of infinite-ammo weapons, or engage them in combo-heavy melee combat. Either way, you’re in for a good time.
The boss battles are a real treat, too. You’ll often encounter several bosses during the course of each stage, many of which include multiple forms and attack patterns. Some levels are nothing more than extended boss battles. It’s great stuff.
According to XS, The Red Star will feature “fresh visual polish and improved controls” when it launches in the App Store this spring.
Studio Radiolaris has released Radio Flare Redux ($2.99), a successor title to its music-based, horizontally scrolling shoot-’em-up Radio Flare.
Radio Flare Redux retains many of the gameplay concepts introduced in Radio Flare. Players use one thumb or finger to dodge incoming bullets, while another finger targets enemy craft. Chains of enemies can be locked on and destroyed with a single swipe.
Radio Flare Redux’s gameplay pulses to the beat of each level’s background music track. Redux features a selection of licensed techno, club, and house music from artists including Kevin Gorman, Fischerspooner, Grace Jones, Tommie Sunshine, and DJ Hell.
Redux includes 33 levels, a selection of mission-based achievements, and global online leaderboards. A gameplay trailer is below.
In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
Gameloft’s World War II shooter Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front captures second place in its debut week, finishing behind PopCap’s reigning chart champion Plants vs. Zombies.
Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War Zombies settles for third place after taking second last week. EA’s Monopoly returns to the top ten at fourth, as Words with Friends moves up from eighth place to finish sixth in today’s rankings.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Doodle Jump disappear from the charts after remaining consistently popular in recent weeks. Triniti Interactive’s 99-cent app compilation All-in-1 Gamebox is still going strong, however, and surpasses EA’s The Sims 3 and Tetris in daily revenue.
Gameloft wowed early iPhone adopters with Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes, one of the first App Store releases to demonstrate the platform’s strengths in the third-person shooter genre. Today, Gameloft releases the long-awaited sequel, Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front ($7.99).
In addition to offering an all-new single player campaign, Brothers in Arms 2 adds a new multiplayer mode that allows up to six players at a time to compete over a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection. The game includes five multiplayer maps and three gameplay modes — Free For All, Team Deathmatch, and Domination.
Gameloft has also bolstered gameplay variety with a selection of controllable vehicles. At points in the single-player campaign, players can take control of a tank, an off-road vehicle, and a glider. A gameplay trailer is below.
Activision has updated its popular Call of Duty: World at War Zombies app, adding a variety of new weapons, new unlockable achievements, and a second playable map.
The downloadable Verrückt map puts players in the middle of a zombie-filled insane asylum for an all-new series of single-player and multiplayer challenges. Activision reports that the map is about twice as big as the game’s default Nacht der Untoten level. The Verrückt map is available as an in-app purchase for $4.99.
The latest update also adds 9 new weapons, including the FG-42, Gewehr-43, PPsh-41, M1 Garand, and the Springfield. 13 new unlockable achievements have been added to the Nacht der Untoten level, while the downloadable Verrückt map gets 10 achievements.
In this weekly feature, FingerGaming rounds up the top-grossing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, as current that day on the iTunes App Store. This week’s top titles are:
Electronic Arts’ Rock Band takes the top chart spot for the second week in a row, as Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War Zombies moves up past PopCap’s puzzler Bejeweled 2 to place second.
Tap Tap Revenge developer Tapulous has a chart hit this week with its recently debuted rhythm-action title Riddim Ribbon, which finishes ahead of Lima Sky’s popular Doodle Jump in today’s rankings.
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has seen a sharp drop in popularity, meanwhile, ending up at seventh place after taking third in last week’s charts.
Finishing up this week’s results, Ubisoft’s stealth platformer Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery makes its chart debut at eighth, as Triniti Interactive’s app compilation All-in-1 Gamebox pushes past Newtoy’s Words With Friends to take ninth place.
Mobile application publisher Mobila Interactive has partnered with developer Apogee Interactive to bring the classic PC first-person shooter Rise of the Triad to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and upcoming iPad platforms.
Running on a modified version of the Wolfenstein 3D engine, Rise of the Triad made its shareware debut in 1994. The title earned a fanbase for its solid gameplay and multiple playable characters, and was notable for its use of digitized enemy characters.
The iPhone version of Rise of the Triad includes the following features:
Original game soundtrack.
A number of customizable control schemes.
Four full game episodes containing 32 super huge levels – up to one million sq. feet, and up to 16 stories high!
Secret levels, hidden rooms, and other surprises.
Play as one of five players, each with unique attributes and abilities.
Look both up and down, up to 45 degrees, to see what is above and below.
Ten unique, real digitized enemies (actual Apogee employees!).
Rise of the Triad will debut in the App Store in “early 2010.” A gameplay video is below.
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