iDroidsMania
By Artificial Life, Inc.
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Description
Reviews:
- iDroidsMania is a great game with excellent controls, well designed levels, and nice looking graphics. This is the perfect game for anybody looking for an old school platform game with a unique theme.” - AppChatter
- “iDroidsMania is yet another game showing off incredibly high production values; the game looks and sounds superb - another fantastic addition to the iPhone's portfolio of quality games.” - AppGamer.net
- “iDroidsMania is just pretty to look at. The use of colors in the design of the levels is superb and gives it a very polished feel.” - no dpad
- “iDroidsMania contains some very appealing backgrounds, graphics, and weapons.” - Apple iPhone apps.com
- “A nice looking side scrolling platformer.” - touchArcade
- “Platformer enthusiasts should enjoy iDroidsMania very much.” - Frapstr, The Podium Network
- “Gameplay is adventurous, fun.” - App Modo
- “iDroidsMania has managed to warm our hearts with its cold little metallic hands.” - PocketGamer
- “The music is upbeat and gets you moving on your mission to save your family.” - The Portable Gamer
Artificial Life brings the exciting world of iDroidsMania™ to the iPhone and iPod touch! The full adventure is now ON SALE!
You are an iDroid! More specifically, HAXX, the rural farmer from iDroidAbama with a heart of steel…and copper.
With a beloved wife and more BabyBots than a Droidas Brothers concert, HAXX has the perfect life…until a stress-free Saturday is interrupted by the abduction of his entire family! Now it is your job to follow the trail of your kidnapped wife and children while fighting, swinging, and fueling through iDroidOpia, where peril is behind every turn…next to the oil refuelery.
So lock, load, and activate Anti-Virus as you embark on the adventure of a lifetime!
Game Features:
- Search the city for your wife and BabyBots and rescue them from BAD RAMM and his deranged posse.
- Find your way out of the maze-like Socket City and climb deep down to The Sewer to find your missing BabyBots.
- Use advanced pieces of robot weaponry to shoot, vaporize, and grapple hook your enemies including the Zapper, Goo Shield, Stealth Suit, and many more!
- Achieve high scores to upgrade HAXX’s efficiency and unleash the power of the Lightning Blaster!
- Swing across the deepest canyons using HAXX's grappling hook.
- Use tools and disguises wisely to creep past your foes unharmed.
- Prepare yourself for unexpected attacks and adapt your gear to different climates and environments!
- Engage in three high-skilled yet amusing boss battles and defeat BAD RAMM once and for all!
Embark on 11 exciting missions through the highs and lows of iDroidOpia including iDroidic Ocean, The Sewers, Socket City and The Dirty Socket District in this old school platform style game that delivers up a whole new school pack of fun!
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What's New in Version 1.0.2
Improved application performance
Customer Reviews
All about robot love
Robot love…that’s the underlying theme of new side-scrolling platformer iDroids developed by a company called, what else, Artificial Life. The game offers some appealing backgrounds, smooth animation, and some subtle and not so subtle sexual innuendo. Having said that, the game offers little in terms of gameplay to help it stand out from other platformers.
The storyline revolves around an iDroid named HAXX whose wife Pixie and three little babybots have been kidnapped by the evil BAD RAMM. Apparently, BAD RAMM has a bad case of the love bug for Pixie which is what started all the hubbub. Domestic disturbances aside, HAXX will do anything to get his family back even if it means traveling through the bowels of iDroidOpia, which is good for us.
Visually, I’ve experienced very little lag in the game’s performance, but there is a 5-8 second loading time prior to each stage which can be irritating for some. It’s minimal, but also long enough that you’ll pay attention. The background music sounds great and very chipper in tone, while cut scenes with dialog provide snapshots of the storyline at the beginning of each level, which you can also skip.
HAXX’s journey involves inflicting some robot hurt in 11 missions and 3 boss battles that take him through iDroidAbama (read that however you want), iDriotic Ocean, The Sewers of Socket City, and the Dirty Socket District (think 6th Street here in San Francisco except with robots).
iDroid has two options for controls: d-pad and accelerometer with sensitivity settings. I find the d-pad works best in terms of accuracy and control, but if you’re feeling adventurous with HAXX, the accelerometer works fine with lowered sensitivity. Now we get to the fun part: the tools. This is where iDroids differentiates itself from other platformers not because of what the tools do, but in how they’re presented. Weapons include bombs, a zapper and the Goo shield. Visually, the discharge from the zapper looks like a tadpole, while the Goo shield resembles a ghost costume...need I say more. You also have various tools including a grappling hook and stealth suit. Throughout the missions, HAXX will have access to other helpful aids including sign posts that offer tips, the transfer portal to move to another location, and my personal favorite the recharging station. It’s difficult to play this game without noticing the type of humor the devs had in mind when they created iDroids because it’s prevalent through all the levels.
iDroid has an interesting gameplay layout which I’m not particularly keen of because it feels clunky. In the upper left-hand corner is the Options button leading back to the menu. At the top of the screen is the battery meter, HAXX’s healthbar. Here’s a neat feature: when you swipe across the battery meter, a map appears enabling you to pan across the entire level so you know what you’re up against. It’s something I’d like to see adopted in other platformers. In the upper right-hand corner is the tool dial. Every tool and weapon that acquired will appear here, which you can scroll, select and appear in the weapons/tool button that correspondingly appears in the lower right-hand corner. If using d-pad controls, they appear in the bottom left corner. On the right side is the aforementioned weapon/tool and jump buttons. Also a metal gear icon appears which you tap to interact with items such as sign posts, portals and recharging stations.
As with any platformer, HAXX will be doing his share of jumping, swinging, and shooting. The gameplay delivers the expected fun gameplay as you encounter different enemies including beehives, sharks, banana-throwing apes, and underwater creatures among others in the each of the vibrantly colored environments. There are also checkpoints throughout the game, which are basically smiley faces that pop up and save your progress.
I do have an issue with the way the weapon/tool dial is set up. Part of the problem is that some of the action is continuous, and I found myself in situations where I need to rotate weapons quickly, but struggling to scroll through numerous weapons one after the other. You do get used to it, but at the same time, if you’re on a steep hill for example and need to switch from a grappling hook to a weapon, you’ll need to keep your finger on the d-pad, while scrolling through the dial, and then finally getting close enough to the target to operate the weapon. Having a jump button on the opposite from the d-pad controls also doesn’t feel right when an upward pointing arrow integrated with the d-pad would make more sense. With that said, the controls work fine, but I can’t help but feel that they aren’t laid out in the most efficient way.
Overall, the gameplay in iDroids is typical of what you would find in a platformer. While the game doesn’t offer any innovations in gameplay, the storyline and graphics look great and should make this entertaining for those who want a fun platformer.
Brings me back to old school NES games
I've been searching for a game like this for so long. It brings back all the nostalgia I have for classic platformers such as Super Mario Bros but with a more violent feel like Contra. The 11 levels are designed beautifully and the game is chalk full of humor. I'm surprised this game isn't more popular, I guess I'm just gonna have to go promote it myself haha.
Yep
Just buy it
- $0.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Dec 03, 2009
- Current Version: 1.0.2
- 1.0.2 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 36.3 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese
- Seller: Artificial Life, Inc.
- © 2009 Artificial Life, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.1 or later.
