GamesRadar - 33 iPhone games for REAL gamers Own an iPhone or iPod Touch and need to fill it up with games?* Before you open up iTunes, drop by GamesRadar to check out 33 iPhone games for REAL gamers, a list in which they list the must buys, the caution buy and the duds! Both Spore Origins and SimCity are on the list - with Origins ranked as a must buy and SimCity as a caution purchase due to un-stability. The app? SimCity Based on? The long-running simulation series, first masterminded by Will Wright in the 1980s. Build your perfect town with roads, businesses, parks and museums… or utterly destroy the mini metropolis with fires, floods, earthquakes and alien invasions. Worth the download? Hard to say. The essence of the SimCity experience has been faithfully translated to the phone, impressive considering how much information and how many menus are necessary to play. Unfortunately, the app is prone to crashing for a lot of users. EA dropped the price by half recently, but still, it’s a risk. ($5) The app? Spore Origins Based on? Will Wright’s natural evolution as a game developer. He put us in charge of cities, families, planets and ant farms. The next step had to be giving us God-like power over the development and advancement of entire species and civilizations. Worth the download? Yes! For a casual, beginner-friendly adaptation of the Spore experience, this app is unexpectedly wonderful. Mind, it’s been drastically reduced… you now worry only about a single cell creature in a small petri dish. Tilting your little fella to feed on other spores is addictive, however, and customizing his body for greater offense and defense provides fantastic replay value. You can even pattern your spore with photos stored on your iPhone. Super nifty and, at the current price, highly recommended. ($5) Full list at GamesRadar
