On The Bus With A Nutter

Plantman here with another installment of On The Bus. Todays game is CliffDiving. Not a lot to this game you jump you do flips you land with as little splash as possible. You get score per jump and how good it is. 3 attempts per jump to try to get the required score. Very simple to learn. very easy levels to begin with. very very addictive. I love this game quite a lot. Its graphics are very simple with it being a stickman game but it is great none the less. Biggest bonus is that it is free so give it a look. You wont regret it.

On the bus with an Idol

Here is Plantman again with another installment of on the bus. Today my app is Temple Run. It is an extremely addictive game on the Ipod. It is fast paced and extremely fun with fairly good graphics. You collect coins, buy upgrades and run away from monkeys. It is a fairly simple game to pick up you slide turn and jump over various obstacles. The game randomly generates a path so every time you play it is a different map. There are in game objectives that give you score multipliers. The fun of the game is increased if you get a friend to download it as this means you can try to beat each others scores. Best of all it is a free game and so I would highly recommend it. This may well be my new time waster of a game. Deffinately worth a look in so give it a try.

On a side note, I am going to try to do on the bus 3-4 times a week so keep coming back and checking the blog.

On the bus with a mental man

Someguy has asked me to start doing on the bus reviews. I will do a majority of app reviews for the iphone as this is what i have to hand. Today i played an app called "Frantic Freddie". You basically are a man in a straight jacket who is scared of bugs and so squashes them. once you beat level two the jacket comes off and you have to squash them off all 4 walls. I would say avoid this game at all costs... The game is boring and repetative and isnt even slightly challenging till about level 10, which takes about 20 minutes to get to. I wouldnt even give this a rating of 5 as frankly the game didnt even last the bus journey as i deleted it once i found out i had to start with my jacket back on. So incase you hadnt gathered. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Died Another Day

Left 4 Dead seconds review is now online, check it out below!
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I DEMAND RETRIBUTION

I got my hands on the closed beta of Blacklight Retribution, and I gotta say, I love it. Your character is fully customizable from head to toe with amazing looking helmets and body armour. Weapons can be bought mid game or as a load out. Mechanical armour can be used to sway the tides of the game with plasma cannons and machine guns. The graphics on this game are amazing, and if your PC can't handle it you have the option to downgrade. For a free download I was amazed. The realistic but still futuristic war zone is a core competitor for the FPS world. I'm sure we will see the servers full for this game. With many different types of game types to suit anyone, and many different weapons, anyone can get a good grip on what they like quickly. I highly recommend this, the graphics, game play and all round feel of this game is brilliant. The game is only for PC, but will probably become very popular none the less. Going into more depth about the weapons, the player can customize what weapon they get when they spawn. Primary include the usual: assault rifle, sniper or sub-machinegun. While secondary you have pistols or revolvers, the player can also add attachments rather like most FPS'. But hang on... what's this? The player can buy extra heavy weapons in game after killing enemies.


The Robot suit is probably the most popular, however heavy machine guns, flame throwers and rocket launchers are also in the list of great weapons.  Another great thing about this game is the equipment. A player can carry things like a revival pack, healing pack or hard suit (extra protection). There are also skills, and so many of them, I can't talk about them all.  However some of the best ones are decoys,machete training and shock grenade training. Now most importantly this game has something a bit different. HVR. Now HVR allows you to see enemies better and see important parts of the map better, but choose wisely as it doesn't last forever.
Get ready for some serious amount of fire power on the games release, see you on the battlefield.

Party Crasher

Castle crashers is a game on both Xbox and PS3, although only for download. The game is set in a medieval universe in which an evil wizard steals a mystical gem from the king and captures the four princesses. Four knights are told by the king to rescue the princesses, recover the jewel, and bring the wizard to justice. Now if I am honest the story line is terrible (apart from the purple haired princess but i won’t ruin the fun). This game is terrible one player; this is because it gets boring very quickly. The graphics are not very good either; cartoony is the best way to describe them. Yet another problem is that aside from the campaign there is very little to do apart from battle online and “All you can quaff” a button mashing game that leaves your hands seized up and cramping and you crying in pain... Unless you’re an addicted rockband/guitar hero player like me, then it’s just boring. So you’re probably thinking why should I pay 1200 Microsoft points for a game that Plantman is giving loads of bad rep. Well here is the answer, get a couple mates to buy it or get them over for the weekend and I can you be almost certain you will all become addicted to: the small tiny bits of humor (deers being propelled forwards by poo), the multiple number of characters, over 20 characters (with the character packs) most have different animations that frankly at times are hysterical, pets that can save your own and your friend’s ass, also pets that attack you when you are on low health provide days of entertainment. There is a frankly brilliant leveling up system which is only limited by the level limit itself (sad face) with a second play though called INSANE MODE that is challenging and even funnier than the first (blooming thieves and their pesky arrows). All in all i would say it is an amazing game, IF you can get a friend to shed the Microsoft points as well, or fiends come over regularly.

Oh and expect loads of video reviews comming up, hopefully, crash bandicoot, the rest of the L4D2 plus a written review, burnout revenge review and maybe a video for Castle crashers

Angry birds

If you haven’t heard of angry birds I have no idea where you have been the past couple years (probably under a rock). It is the second most popular App on the App store of all time. You basically launch birds (that have various abilities) at pigs (in various defences). There are a huge number of similar games out there but this is by far the best I have played. There are 3 versions out: Angry birds; Angry birds Rio; Angry birds seasons. They are all good with over 280 levels on the original version. This means that you get hours of fun trying to achieve the highest score with the minimum number of birds, and all for only 69p it is an absolute bargain. The only downside is after about 5 hours of playing the app on and off you get very bored as you have done all the levels and can’t seem to do any better on the levels you have not got three stars. To try to keep bringing players back they release new level packs regularly which are free and come as an app update. They also have an in game purchase called the mighty eagle. This also cost 69p and adds a whole new game play to the game trying to destroy everything on the map. It is available (from what I can gather) on pretty much any smart phone/ android phone, PC and all Apple devices. You can even play it on web browsers such as Chrome and then there are versions on Facebook (although this version is often clunky and I find it not as fun). One of the greatest pick up put down games I have ever played well worth a look.

Also I seem to have problems uploading pictures for the blogs so i will have to get someguy to show me at some point as i may be doing it wrong (which knowing me is likely)