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It's pretty much a sequel rather than a port.

- Championship Mode - all new design. 15 new maps total. The first two halves start identical to the 360 game but the maps that generate after you eat the first two fruit are all new.

- Mission Mode - 120* missions (with three difficulties) - basically bite size chunks of Pac-Man. Think, eat 12 ghosts consecutively, eat a 5 fruits in alotted time frame, score a certain amount, etc.

- Challenge Mode - Costs $4 extra, but it's worth it, it adds a bunch more missions and 15 Score based challenge maps.

*120 total, the $4 extra includes a bunch of missions. I don't recall how many the game started with before the expansion. Maybe 75?

If you are a fan of Pac-Man: CE then there is no way you will be disappointed with this. There are even 4-5 different control methods so you can pick the one that works best for you.

I can't wait for Nova to come out.

http://www.near-orbit-vanguard-alliance.com/

Many have lite versions, but so many well reviewed games go on sale for $.99 or free that you will find yourself blind buying a lot of cheap games (if you are anything like me). My advice: Go to appshopper.com, create an account and mark down any game that you are remotely interested in. They will e-mail you whenever any of your games go on sale. If you are patient, almost every single game you want will be on sale at some point. I learned my leason with Metal Gear Solid. 2 days after I bought it for $5.99, it went on sale for $.99.

I also recommend the Pandora Box app which is basically Appshopper.com but on your iTouch. I check it every night before bed and hit the price drop area where you can filter by paid or free. You can even flag apps you are interested in and it will give you a little notification when you log on if anything on that list had a price drop.

Pandora Box is my favorite of that type of app, but I also use BargainBin and AppMiner.

Having at least one of those is a MUST imo, if you buy apps at all, it will end up saving you $. I have learned to never pay more than $1 for an app. Of the 100 or so apps I've either bought or thought about buying, all but one of them has hit $1 at least once, and most of them were even briefly free.

N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance is out. Looks like Halo.

EPIC SINGLE-PLAYER CAMPAIGN
- 13 insane levels
- 5 radically different environments, from the real to the fantasic - jungle, snow mountains, spaceship, bunker, and an alien city
- 6 weapons: Assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, handgun, rocket launcher and plasma gun – plus grenades & machine gun turrets in certain levels
- An intense drama sustained by transitional cinematics and character voices

FRANTIC MULTIPLAYER MODE
- Play locally or online via Wi-Fi or Local Bluetooth connection
- 1-4 player Deathmatch (1-2 players via Bluetooth connection)
- 5 different maps
- Play against your friends or the entire world through Gameloft LIVE!
- Worldwide leaderboards in the game & on the official website, www.near-orbit-vanguard-alliance.com

TECHNOLOGICAL LEAP
- Full 3D rendered environments enhanced by highly detailed graphics
- 3 control schemes
- Customizable interface

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Itunes link

Wow.. that does look pretty cool.... $6.99 price tag.. It's going into my favorites list in pandorabox to watch for price drop.

Agreed - although i have bought a few apps that never changed for the 6 months i watched them. A couple chess apps mostly. I imagined there wouldn't be a big call for them.

I also am debating Oregon Trail. I have wanted the game ever since i got my Touch and it has never dropped in price.

My fiance' just got a white 3GS.

Little does she know....

This is now on sale for $.99 until Christmas.

Cool deal on Pac-Man:CE sold!

What's the deal with everyone saying it is just a "partial" game?

I am holding on opening my Touch until x-mas so I have just been scanning the app store in the meantime. I never had a clue how many freaking apps/games there are. Holy cow! It could take you days to just go thru everything.

I looked up pinball and was astonished to see how many apps popped up. Granted none of the screen grabs really looked as appealing as a PSP or DS pinball game but some looked worth a shot.

Is there a good reference site that goes over the "must have" apps and games for newbies such as myself?

I always go to toucharcade.com they have fourms which can give you some ideas.

For your $.99 you get:

- Mission Mode: Approximately 80-100 bite sized challenges
- Championship Mode: 5 different maps in the 5:00 time Championship Mode
- Challenge Mode: Grayed out until you buy the expansion

For $4 more (purchasable in-game menus)
- Mission Mode: brings the total # of missions up to 120
- Championship Mode: adds 10 more maps
- Challenge Mode: 15 maps on a 3:00 timer vs. the 5 minutes for Championship mode

Yup, there are literally hundreds of worthwhile games to play on the iPlatforms.

A couple of my favorites include Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, Samurai: Way of the Warrior, Canabalt, Blimp, Gold Rush, Castle Warriors, and iBomber.

I would do the following:
1. Go through this entire thread.
2. IGN - Editors Choice in the mobile section.

Some of my favorites are:
Baseball Superstars 09 (can't buy any more, but '10 is on sale for 2.99)
Fieldrunners (I got for free)
PuzzleQuest (I paid $4.99)
Peggle (I Paid $.99, but it is definatly worth $4.99)
Spider Legend of Bryce Manner (3.99)
Mecho Wars (I paid .99)
Metal Gear Solid Touch (I paid 5.99, but it has been as cheap as .99)
Legend (Hero?) of Sparta (I paid .99)
Bejeweled 2 (I paid 2.99)
iBlast Moki (I paid nothing, it is normally 2.99)
Let's Golf (I paid .99)
Galcon Labs (I paid 1.99)
Luxor (I paid .99)
Spore Origins (I paid .99)
Star Defense (I paid .99)
Tap Tap Revenge 2 (free)
Blocked (free)
Lux Touch (free)

I really like Spider (the one where you are a spider in a mansion capturing flies). It has nice graphics, music, uses the touch screen well, and is fun.

I also play Zooloretto a bit. It is a conversion of a board game that is excellent. The board game costs like 70$. The app is like 4$. Good deal in my book.

Also, for the Settlers of Catan fans, there is now Catan on the iTouch. It is a little slow but will let you get your fix against the AI on the road.

Finally, Pocket God for a buck is a must buy.

edit: When i get home and can check, i will list my main apps/games as well.

I play a sickening amount of Airline Conquerer. Anyone else play that one? Super simple game but a good challenge.

I also want N.O.V.A. , and will definitely be getting Pac-Man: CE

Another newbie question...do you guys use a stylus for most of your games or do you just find your finger does the job?

Thanks for all the responses by the way.

Is Airline Conquerer like Flight Control?

I have never ever used a stylus on my Touch.

stylus? The iphone/ipod touch is meant to be controlled with your finger. The screen is much more resilient than the ones on the Nintendo DS.

What's a stylus? Seriously, I've never seen or heard of anyone using a stylus with an iPhone.

I'll second toucharcade. It's pretty much the only forum besides this one that I frequent.

A normal stylus like the DS one won't work on the Touch. It relies on something with the texture of human skin. There might be special styluses available but that won't work for anything that requires multitouch. Also, the screen is specially designed so finger prints don't show up anywhere near as much as say on the PSP or DS.

Anyone get the Simpsons Arcade game?
http://appshopper.com/games/the-simpsons-arcade