Super Jet World by Elevated Vision - Android Featured App
Let's face it, the amount of adventure most of us get to enjoy during the year is quite limited, mostly having to do with a reckless driver on the freeway. We get up, go to work, get home, go to sleep and then the recycle begins anew the next day. People with spouses and especially kids get to have a little more excitement in their lives but it is still not what one would call an adventure.
Adventure consists of getting to new places, exploring them, battling or at least escaping the attention of various evil monsters. A large part of what adventure consists is not knowing what is coming next, what kind of crazy scenery we will find and what crazier beings are there to defend it and protest our arrival.
Super Jet World is a kind of adventure, a simple action game that nevertheless manages to take us to fantastic places.
The game itself is quite intuitive and easy to learn. The player takes on the character of an old war vet who pilots a jet aircraft, controlling it simply through touch motions on the screen. The pilot must take his jet through some really wild environments while things become increasingly difficult as creatures, monsters and conditions themselves worsen by the minute.
We talked earlier about adventures and Super Jet World is a real adventure. The player gets to explore underground caverns, erupting volcanoes, unpredictable jungles and even outer space. Of course, every environment has its own dangers and specific native life, making exploring dangerous yet thrilling.
The makers of Super Jet World made a real effort to produce a fun and interesting game. On of their most interesting features is the ability to custom the jet our pilot is using, a feature not commonly seen on action games. The player can select colors, shapes and even the flag the jet flies behind it, all to suit the player's tastes and desires.
The game also has a plethora of other useful features like a catchy and slightly retro sounding music, a leadership board and the ability to allow the player to challenge his or her friends to a friendly competition and the game itself has several modes of play, from campaign to survival, making the player pilot the jet in increasingly difficult conditions, really testing the player's reflexes and piloting ability.
Tapet - Wallpapers Reinvented by SharpRegion - Android Featured App
Let's face it guys, we've all been there. We've all moved through the same process. First of all, we put a pic of something cool as our smartphone's wallpaper. Then, someone get's annoyed, be it spouse or sibling and then we are forced to put THEIR pic on the wallpaper. But after a time, it get's annoying. We see our loved ones every day at home, why should we see them on our smartphones' as well?
Then, we try switching pics, but then we run the risk of putting a pic of the spouse she or he doesn't like, or just the hassle of constantly switching the wallpaper pics because how long can anyone keep seeing the SAME pic on the wallpaper? Eventually, we get sick of seeing ANYONE's pic on the wallpaper so we return to the original pic the smartphone came with.
But, Tapet - Wallpapers Reinvented has found a great solution to this universal problem. Let us tell you how and why.
What does Tapet to? Well, quite simply it creates random wallpapers based on eye pleasing geometric designs based on shapes, contours and colors generated randomly by the app in an automatic way on scheduled intervals with several configurable options such as the colors, shapes and themes the app will use.
So what does that give us? First of all, Tapet insures that we get a new and colorful wallpaper whenever we want it (actually, as frequently as we set the app to generate a new wallpaper). The app's algorithms insure that we will never see the same wallpaper twice and we will never be able to guess how the next wallpaper will look. No need to ever search for new pics for out wallpaper!
Tapet's algorithm insures that the wallpaper generated will be at the highest resolution supported by your device. The algorithms also insure that the user will never be bored by seeing the same wallpaper twice and constant updates install yet MORE themes for Tapet to use. Of course, since this is not an active live wallpaper, battery and CPU drain by Tapet are non existent.
Withe many effects such as blur, saturation and more and with no need to go online to check for images or such things, Tapet will always surprise you with new wallpapers even if you are abroad with no penalty to your internet data package.
To sum things up, Tapet creates beautiful parallax wallpapers optimized for the device it is installed on with minimum drain on the smartphone and with the ability to constantly surpirse and please the user with eye catchy, geometric wallpapers.
V-Star Mobile VoIP / SIP Phone by VoX Communications - Android Featured App
There are three important roles Android Smartphones play. They are mobile offices, mobile entertainment centers and of course, mobile communications center. Communications are in fact one of the smartphons' most important roles and it is actually the origin of the whole smartphone idea.
But communications have many sides to them and one of them is owning a phone number. Even in this day and age of the Internet, Skype and Whatsapp, still the phone number is our identification and one of the most important pieces of information contained within our smartphones.
We would like to introduce V-Star Moblie VoIP / SIP Phone app and explain what exactly makes this app so exciting.
The first thing that makes us here at Android Review Center so exciting is that V-Star is a VoIP app, which is an app that allows us to make and receive regular phone calls through the Internet. But, this has been done before. One of the unique things about V-Star is that is allows us to produce and receive a new and unique phone number.
What does that mean?Let's say we want to do some business on Craiglist, or just do a job interview without giving away any biographic details about us before time (because we don't want our current employer to know) or we login into a date site and wish to hide our phone number. With V-Star, we get the opportunity to receive a new phone number, use it for the purpose we needed it and then discard it.
This gives us an unparalleled level of privacy. In addition, V-Star also implements a VERY wide range of pricing subscriptions to make and receive calls, both domestic and international to help us select the best one for us, whether we want to pay by the minute, or buy a prepaid package, or go for the international option. Everything is possible.
To sum things up, V-Star is actually an app for everyone, to receive and use a new phone number on a very well designed app that hides our real phone number AND let's us select a pricing package for any conversations we need to make and pay for only what we use and what we select.
Here at Android Review Center, we love apps that save us money, and V-Star saves us money AND helps restore some amount of privacy in this digital world.
Puzzles are among the games we really appreciate here at Android Review Center. Since Android Smartphones can and are used as mobile entertainment center, there's really nothing entertaining like a good puzzle, since the player can whip it out any free time he or she has and puzzle solving actually requires thinking and making the brain work, which is always a good thing.
However, finding an original puzzle is harder than it looks. There are tens of thousands if not more puzzles of different kinds on Google Play and it get's harder and harder to find a puzzle that is original, is interesting and challenging and is also fun.
However, we are quite pleased to introduce Just Get 10, an innovative puzzle game for Android from Veewo Games.
So, what exactly is Just Get 10? Well, the game itself is quite simple though the difficulty level rises rapidly. In the game, the player is presented with a board filled with colorful numbers. The player must tap and join together numbers with the same color and the same value and then they combine to form a number with a higher value.
Then, the user must combine yet more numbers to work up the value and reach as high as possible, hopefully reach the value of ten, which is the goal of the game. Of course, the challenge comes from the physical layout of the number presented when the board is first displayed, because the player must think ahead to figure out how to combine numbers without blocking future progress.
Just Get 10 sports lovely music and sounds which make the gaming experience much more pleasant. The graphics are professional and colorful and look perfectly well on higher end smartphones and tabets' large displays. The game also supports leadership boards on Google Play and some sharing features which make gameplay even more fun.
For a quick challenge for those few minutes we want to relax or to train kids in spacial understanding and manipulation, not to mention planning ahead along with some basic math skills, Just Get 10 is one of the best and more enjoyable puzzle games we saw on Google Play.
Swing Wizards by Earth Little - Android Featured App
It has been said that the only thing we receive when we arrive upon this world is innocence. We have to fight for everything else. We might want to add a little correction, that sometimes in this world we have to fight to keep our innocence. This is a rarely spoken truth ...
Unfortunately, quite a lot of games, apps and media available today (not only for Android Smartphones but in general) are items whose presence erodes or evaporates the little bit of innocence we have left, if we are talking about blatant sexual things or things with excessive violence. In other words, just look how many things we cannot show our small kids or let them play.
On Android Review Center we are quite pleased to showcase from time to time apps that do act to keep our innocence and as a consequence are suitable for kids, though not limited to them. In this case, we would like to introduce Swing Wizards by Earth Little.
The gameplay for Swing Wizards is quite simple, though the game is far from being easy. The player gets to play one of four flying fairy tale characters, from wizards to several kinds of fairies. Then, the player must fly his character to safety and escape the orcs with their steel balls and the other obstacles in the game.
With some similarities to Flappy Bird, the game is all about reflexes, quick reactions and thinking ahead, planning the course of the flying character. Controlling the flying wizard or fairy is simple and intuitive but the difficulty gets harder as the game progresses.
The backgrounds, characters and the graphics in the game are something. It is clear a lot of effort has been invested in making a game that will look REALLY beautiful, if it's the castle or forest backgrounds, to the painstakingly drawn characters to the enemies themselves. Everything is a real eye candy.
Swing Wizards is the game of choice for adults who want to hone their reflexes and enjoy a fantasy game, with no guns, robots and bombers of any kinds. Of course, it is quite a safe game for kids with little to no violence, safe environments and simple gameplay that will nonetheless challenge the kids' hand to eye coordination.
Currency converter app by Tiarsoft - Android Featured App
We always say that Android smartphones' purpose is to serve as mobile communications center, mobile entertainment centers and of course, mobile office but actually here on Android Review Center we love the most the apps that save us money. What can we do? That's the kind of people we are.
Saving money takes lots of different forms and shapes, from free services to reduced prices international calls and messages (we introduced apps that do all those things here on Android Review Center). But this time we would like to delve into the subject of currency conversion apps and the saving they bring us.
Naturally, we would like to introduce Currency Converter App by Tiarsoft.
Okay, so what's the big deal with currency converters? First of all, for those dealing with the stock market and foreign exchanges, knowing from moment to moment the current relative value of different currencies is imperative. Of course, every one buying and selling things abroad, whether as a business or just shopping on Ebay must know the current exchange rates. Last but not least, all those traveling abroad must know the value of money.
Currency Converter App indeed shows the user the relative value of currency. The user can select a view where the value of one currency is translated into several others for ease of reference, and of course the user can configure what currency will be translated into which currencies.
In addition, Currency Converter App updates automatically (with a toggle that can be turned off if the user needs to) so whenever the user wants to see exchange rates, the app automatically displays current exchange rates, which is quite important, especially when dealing with international stocks that open and close on different hours.
Last but not least is a currency exchange graph, displaying the various changes in the exchange rate of a selected currency. Anyone who trades in foreign money or needs to exchange it, or just wants to wait to see when to buy something abroad will find this graph indispensable for saving money, since it becomes quite clear whether the value of a currency rises or plummets.
Currency Converter App is a quite complete currency exchange rate display app, with up to date displays of every currency, automatic updates and currency exchange rate graphs so the user can follow and understand the changes in the value of money. It goes on without saying that the app is fully customizable in its displays and the currencies it follows.
Pup Jumper by Toby Unterfranz - Android Featured App
There is a time and place for everything and platform arcade games are no exception. They are usually simple, easy to learn, present a challenge and are perfect to pass the time when you're waiting for an appointment, waiting for a large program to compile or just have a few minutes to kill.
But platform games offer another exciting opportunity and that is to keep the kids occupied, even for a few minutes. Of course, we at Android Review Center are not in favor of letting the kids use our Android Smartphones ALL the times, but sometimes it is very beneficial to have a suitable game ready to run .
We would like to present Pup Jumper, a game that is enjoyable to both adults and kids.
What's the story with Pup Jumper? Well, the story is quite simple, really. A golden Labrador pup finds himself in the middle of the desert and he must find his way out while taking care to avoid dangerous obstacles such as cats, snakes and much more.
The gameplay itself is quite simple and easy to understand as our golden Labrador pup can be walked and jump with ease and only the timing remains, to make sure our pup makes the right jumps at exactly the right time to avoid the desert's obstacles.
For adults, the game can be a lot of fun because of its very professional and attractive graphics, coupled with levels with increasing levels of difficulty, all of which makes Pup Jumper ideal for that five minutes break you now have.
But the game really shines when given to kids. They learn very fast how to play it (even very small kids get the idea rapidly) and the game's graphics are all cute and cuddly, with a marked absence of violence from the game, which is something quite rare these days and its lack makes it suitable for kids.
To sum things up, Pup Jumper is a platform game with a lot of action, needing quick fingers and great hand to eye coordination. The game can be played but adults and kids who adopt to this game rather quick, making this game a must app to have installed, just for emergencies.
Solar Rush by Gazzapper Games - Android Featured App
We at Android Review Center love retro games for several reasons. First of all, they have a romantic feeling to them, a feeling of old times and better games. Secondly, they are mostly simpler to play and master than some of the super complicated games to today. Last but not least, they are usually less violent.
In addition, there are still people even on our team who remember the old games along with the old PCs, and even ATARI, AMIGA and Comodore consoles. Ask anyone who actually owned one of these and he or she will shed a tear for those classic consoles.
That is why we take great pleasure in finding and introducing retro games and Solar Rush is no exception.
Well, Solar Rush is fun to play for several reasons. First of all, it's retro looks are quite perfect, complete with pixelized icons and 8 bit sounds. The game itself is quite simple. You pilot your spaceship that must collect enough sollar cells while avoiding the shots being fire at your spaceship.
Gameplay is simple, with arrows controlling the movements of the player's spaceship and the levels themselves are quite straightforward, though the difficulty rises considerably as the player advanced through the many levels of this game.
The music, sounds and tunes are all 8 bit digitized, which means they sound exactly like games on ancient gaming consoles sounded like. For those that actually owned those consoles. Solar Rush is like coming home. Even those that are new to this, will find Solar Rush a different and quite invigorating experience.
We did mention that the game becomes harder as the player advances through the levels, with faster shots being fired and obstacles added, however the speed boost power-up will come handy when the player must collect a lot of solar cells in a short amount of time.
In conclusion, Solar Rush is a very well made game, with professional retro graphics and music, simple gameplay and nicely done levels with rising difficulty, perfect for the casual player and those missing ancient gaming consoles.
Everyone loves arcade games in general and platform games in particular. The reasons are varied and are actually quite complicated, in stark contrast to the arcade games themselves which are usually quite simple. First of all, people like simple games. Our lives are usually so complicated that a simple game comes as a relief.
In addition, we like a challenge and platform games are usually quite challenging and require lightning quick reflexes and rapid eye to hand coordination. But actually the thing people like the best about platform games in the story, as weird as it sounds.
Now, Fatal Fall by GAMEOLIC is a platform game with some very interesting twists and a unique story.
Fatal Fall's story is interesting and one that we haven't seen before. There's a first to anything and actually that's why we're here in Android Review Center, to see those new and different things for Android Smartphones. Anyway, in Fatal Fall, jack who had a little more to drink than is strictly good for him, finds a deep hole in the ground and falls down. And down. And down.
And this is where the player comes in. The player must now take control of Jack and turn his plummet into a controlled fall, avoiding obstacles, finding power-ups and even upgrading Jack's style, something which no one wants to neglect.
The game itself is very simple. Jack falls down and the player can make him veer to the left or right to avoid obstacles or pickup valuable items that happen to appear. The game's difficulty rises as Jack keeps falling deeper and even his descent becomes faster.
The power-ups are quite varied, from parachutes to temporarily slow Jack's fall to a power-up that lets Jack swim across the pit and even some power-ups that upgrade Jack's style and clothes. So, Fatal Fall is a quirky game with a quirky sense of humor with simple but challenging game-play that can compete against any platform game on Google Play for sheer fun and enjoyment.
