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![]() Its a decent price and so easy to pick up and play you’ll find yourself reaching for it on journeys, in meetings and hidden under a table during dull conversations. The full size iPad version is the best choice overall. The cartoon presentation and charming, chunky visuals are at home on almost any platform and the reviewed iPhone version is clear and playable even on the small screen. The only line of defence? Aggressive, zombie destroying plants of course! Wait, what? Despite this I only recently got round to playing this masterpiece of minimalistic, compulsive gaming candy.įor the few uninitiaited souls, the game is in the tower defence mould and sees waves of slow moving, hungry zombies lurch from the evil right-hand side of the screen towards the questionable saftey of the suburban residence on the left. Popcap’s superhit is so successful no one platform can hold it, I’m sure somewhere, someone has it running on a graphics calculator. Telling a bunch of gamers that Plants vs Zombies is great is a little like telling Zombies that brains taste good or explaining the wonders of the sun to a flower. A game that makes you fall asleep then, but in the best possible way. I found myself Rosecliff in the wee hours of the morning allowing the sleepy, stress free gameplay to pull me into a contented stupor. While many mobile games find their raison d’être to be quick bursts of gameplay on public transport, Rosecliff is different. Its all very gentle and channels the best quiet, reflective moments of Myst. Interspersed between the hidden objects sections are simplistic puzzles ranging from Bejewelled-style item matching to rotating-block jigsaws. Scanning a ruined tree house at night as it creaks eerily in the wind looking for a baseball bat, a set of handcuffs and a tin of sardines is not how I would go about escaping a deserted island but logic and sense are not this games priorities. ![]() From the first moment of gameplay the attractive backdrops win you over while the ambient noises swirl around the dreamy musical score to produce a trance like gaming experience. The storyline is sparse, setting up a mysterious island that you have to escape from (as per the title). Despite belonging in large part to the simplistic hidden item genre, Escape Rosecliff Island has some compelling traits.
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