How could it be otherwise, our top 5 Android weekly dresses up and prepares to lay off this glorious 2012 for smartphone and tablet games doing a review of the best games of the year.
The weekly ranking games for Android devices celebrate its last edition in 2012, a year that has been very special, not only for the beginning of this section blog at home, but also by the constant arrival of truly great game to Google Play. Titles high quality, entertaining and challenging game play with stunning graphics, addictive approaches, demanding games, soundtracks showy or worthy of the best orchestras have given us throughout the year of great miniature games.
A few days before kick off 2013, our turn to make a toast to them by large companies that have invested in this market and the small studies that give life to his first projects in a platform as accessible as helpful. In addition, many houses are certainly under their trees a smartphone or Android tablet this holiday season, and what better to start to enjoy it with the top 5 Android games of the year?
We may collect many names that have become famous in the mobile scene, but our selection today attempts to bring together the best of the genres most significant for at least introduce you to each of them and from there you may be you who miss the magic of Android, or our many Top5 revises weekly!
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the coming year with the addictive game play of Jetpack Joyride, Shadow gun Deadzone shootings, the Bad Piggies swine engineering, the adventurous mystery of Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery and speed of Asphalt 7 Heat.
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Jetpack Joyride |
Jetpack Joyride
The Halfbrick Studios game, which took over the famed Fruit Ninja, caused a real boom in Ios arrival back in September 2011, especially when it became free-to-play. Android holders had to wait a few months to enjoy Jetpack Joyride, a cool arcade, fun, visually appealing and most addictive.
The protagonist of this nonsense 'Roadrunner', Hawker Barry Steakfries, breaks into a laboratory where evil scientists are developing a propulsion backpack, with the dream of becoming a hero. Immediately Barry is done with it and the action begins. The goal of Jetpack Joyride is moving forward and avoiding obstacles, collecting coins and meeting of objectives completed along the endless laboratory in which we find ourselves, for the sole purpose of getting the best scores and new devices that feed the growing fun offered the game.
Managing the jetpack is very simple: when you press the screen ascend, descend upon release. This is the way we move forward mainly up and down the stage side scroll scroll, however, we can collect a bonus we board a special purpose vehicle of the most striking, as a mechanical bird, a chopper, a robotic dragon, an uncontrolled teleportation capsule or a steamroller armor, each with their way of handling, speed and special advantages.
These vehicles will help us greatly in our obstacle course for both electrical barriers dodge, evade rid of deadly missiles or lasers, among other deadly traps. They are also a great tool for collecting coins, key to acquiring new jetpack models, various gadgets help or skins for our comic hero.
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Shadowgun Deadzone |
Shadowgun Deadzone
Because like Madfinger Games can be overwhelmed with the power of our Android devices and how much they can squeeze it, both graphically and jugablmente.
Shadowgun Deadzone is a stunning third-person shooter multiplayer online, so ignite the Wi-Fi and prepare for the best shooter battles smartphone and tablet.
We advance to the thrilling competition between humans and mutants Shadowgun Deadzone in full progress, by which we encourage you to spend. With two modes (Deathmatch and Control Zone), the game skirmishes faces up to 12 players online in which no mercy to anyone. The handling of the character is somewhat difficult at first, but once configured correctly the sensitivity of virtual joysticks and control we do, this is an ideal game for fans of shooters and action.
Shadowgun Deadzone allows us to impose our own style of fighting, either through his considerable arsenal that gives us different tactical options as our favorite way to play with assault rifles, plasma cannons, machine guns, shotguns, rocket launchers and sniper rifles between others, all improved. Also we can get with various 'toys' such as grenades, mines, kits or sentries with machine gun life.
Our character will level as you end up with more and more players, thus having more options of weapons, upgrades and even skins for the aspect of our character go with your personality and tastes.
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Bad Piggies |
Bad Piggies
The famous green pigs Rovio, eternal enemies of Angry Birds, saw his first adventure as protagonists for this 2012, and how! Bad Piggies is a highly original puzzle game with light touches of action that challenges us to build vehicles and helpful crazier than any pig could want.
The particular adventure begins as the Bad Piggies usually want to get eggs and for this, draw a map with the location of the Angry Birds nest. However, his plan could not succeed, and a pig with a broken fan paper. From that moment the goal is to collect pig parts in their peculiar map fireballs, which will you design and operate us.
In each of its more than 100 levels (between story mode, extra levels and sandbox), have a series of elements to invent a vehicle that can carry safely to the Bad Piggies and eggs they get to the finish. Wooden boxes, wheels of different sizes and materials, fans, motors, rockets, wings, dynamite, balloons, springs, and vanes are many more tools available to us for our mission. In an area of boxes and we arrange them together so as to be a car, plane or 'fudge' that help us to complete the winding and varied levels in 2D.
Reaching the goal will not be the only task, since each map we propose various challenges like collecting star boxes, exceed the level within a time limit or waive any part in our invention pig.
Bad Piggies, with charisma worthy of Rovio, stands as one of the best of the year thanks to its challenging gameplay that takes us into a fun puzzle game of trial and error where exploit our creativity while we fly the air at the green pigs best known mobile landscape.
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Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP |
Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP
Adapting Capybara Games to Android mobile devices is definitely the best indie work, published last November by the Humble Bundle for Android 4, which I talked earnestly and passion in their respective weekly top5. Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP could not miss the podium of the best Android games of the year.
The work designed by Superbrothers, as indicated in its title, takes us to a whole visual and sound experience, thanks to the exquisite soundtrack by composer Jim Guthrie, shaped like an adventure game in a world of magic, mythology and fantasy. The unique character of this story will have to explore different places, villages, temples and dungeons, using his shield and sword to kill the evil creatures in its path. This does not mean that Sword & Sworcery is an RPG or action, in brief, is an interactive story.
With our fingers we will discover the mysterious hidden plot behind the thoughts of heroin and other characters we meet Megatome thanks to the magic book, allowing us to read the minds of people and travel to the dimension of dreams. Music is an active part of the gameplay, helping us to understand the situations we live, and the cycles of day and night on which we depend to advance. Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery stands as an immersive experience for all the senses, will delight gamers and more novelistic adventure lovers, especially those who are fluent in English (only downside of the game is not yet translated).
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Asphalt 7 Heat |
Asphalt 7 Heat
And we could not end with the selection of the best games of the year without a racing game, that eternal and comprehensive gender might like to all audiences. In our case, we decided to do without the famous series Need for Speed, whose games have tried on numerous occasions to highlight the quality of Gameloft in driving mobile franchise Asphalt 7 Heat.
With a fleet of 60 vehicles real, ranging from high-end manufacturers such as Aston Martin or Lamborghini, and companies such as BMW and Nissan standard and its new Juke-R and Juke Nismo, we travel the world over 15 circuits based in cities like London, Miami, Paris or Tokyo beating our rivals in thrilling racing arcade full of accelerations, drifts and power-ups. Asphalt 7 Heat is not revolutionizing the genre, but it exposes you to high quality smartphone and Android tablets.
Its graphics shine with their own light, with the most detailed cars and finished more than satisfactory, and scenarios and circuits that have been cared for to provide the ambience worthy of each location. Asphalt 7 Heat has 6 game modes, multiplayer up to 6 riders included locally or online, 15 different leagues and 150 races that test our driving skills. Furthermore, the gaming experience extending successively with free updates, so numerous competitions step on street waiting for the accelerator.
And with that we close a successful year full of high quality video games in Android, which if not for the lack of physical buttons that improved their control, would offer greater competition to the handheld and would take much of your audience. With great enthusiasm, we wish that studies continue offering the same mobile fun during 2013 and to continue squeezing the evolutionary power of smartphone and tablets as well as the implementation of the free market model-to-play allows us to invest money we want on our favorite games.
Without further ado, we wish you a happy new year and see you next year here everyday and every Saturday androidclinic Top 5 Android games of the week.