While the joystick’s visual cues are helpful, in practice you can’t pay attention to it while you are playing the game.Īnother gimmick? Surprisingly, no.
You may have tilted one direction but on subsequent turns, you may not tilt far enough for it to register. While it works better than I had expected, it still falls short in the same critical way.Īgain, it’s hard to remember where center is. The on-screen joystick reflects your current input (centered, left, right, up, down) and the neutral centered position is at about a 45 degree angle. Namco allows you to tilt your iPhone in the appropriate direction to guide Ms.
While it seems likely you could get better with practice, I’m not sure it’s worth the time as there’s a better option available.Īll developers are going to feel pressure to use the iPhone’s accelerometer as an input method. In both cases, it was too easy to miss turns. I tried both using two thumbs to press the correct spots and also centering my finger in the middle and sliding towards the right direction. And missing one turn is enough to prematurely end your game. Since you are paying attention to the game play, you can easily lose track of the exact spots to press. The lack of tactile response makes it impossible to be certain you are pressing in the right spot. Of the three input methods, this one felt the most finicky. While a great method for a physical controller, its implementation on a touch-screen falls pretty short. This tries to emulate the most familiar gaming controller - the D-Pad. Pac-Man (due to my aforementioned bias) for this purpose and found it offered three methods for control. Similar to my insistence that Doom II felt far better than the original Doom.)Īs it turns out, these games turned out to be a good test of the iPhone’s unique controls applied to a traditional game. Pac Man was the perfect form of this game with just the right feel to it. (As a side note, of the two, I’ve always felt Ms. In order to be succeed at the game, however, you need relatively precise controls with the ability to make quick turns to avoid getting captured by the ghosts. But as Pac-Man, you navigate a maze with while avoiding the ghosts. The gameplay of these historic games is pretty well known, so I won’t bore you with the details.
Priced at $9.99 each, the games are priced twice as much as the earlier iPod ports. Namco kicked off the App Store launch with the release of two classics: Pac-Man and Ms.
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