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- Rating:
- Price: Free (Get It)
- Version: 1.0.0.1
- Developer: Danielle Cassley and Jason Citron
Much like everyone else’s response when playing this game, “I can’t believe this is free!” went through my mind when I fired up this game. Aurora Feint is a high-quality game with great graphics, great sound, great music, and fun gameplay. Since there are no tutorial or documentation, watching the demo movie may prove helpful when digging into the game.
While it isn’t complete yet, in its current state though, it’s very solid and will keep you busy for hours. The mining game is the main portion of Aurora Feint, but there’s RPG in there, where you create a character, level it up, develop new skills, and buy items from the store. The RPG part of the game isn’t complete yet, but it hints at a promising element to an already great game.
The game takes advantage of the iPhone, using both multi-touch capabilities and the accelerometer to add strategy to the mining game. It all comes together and works really well in the game.
Besides the controvery that cropped up about privacy, the game also can suffer from stability problems, crashing constantly at load, or during gameplay. It happened to me less when I deleted the game entirely from my iPhone and iTunes, and redownloaded it. Now the game is rock solid.
Aurora Feint could easily have been a $9.99 game, but it owes much of its success to the fact that it is free, polished, fun, and hints at some very promising updates down the line.
