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Sunday, October 14, 2012

The 25 Best Android Games

Angry Birds Space

Angry Birds Space

$0.99
Angry Birds Space adds a new spin to your favorite guilty pleasure: gravitational pull. Set against a backdrop of meteors, planets, and stars, this is the best spin-off from the original Angry Birds app. Angry Birds Space adds new levels, bonus levels, and innovative gameplay using your favorite Angry Birds.

Avatar Fight

Avatar Fight

Free
This simple MMORPG is a fighting game where your strength depends on you joining forces with other players with complementary skills. If you like simple action games, simple graphics, and a layered, sophisticated plotline, you'll be hooked on Avatar Fight.

Cesto 2: Party Time

Cesto 2: Party Time

Free
Duke it out in this fun and lighthearted multiplayer game in which you use marbles to knock out your opponents on a board filled with holes. You can customize your marble avatars—that's a phrase you don't hear too often—and match up against random players or friends.'Party Time' has different game modes and customizations to create very addictive gameplay.

Cut the Rope

Cut the Rope

Free
Cut the Rope is one of the few games that has been on the best-of list of Android games since the very early days. This addictive casual, physics game has players solve dynamic puzzles that sometimes feel more like obstacle courses. It's a family-friendly game, the kind you definitely want to have preloaded on your phone if you have boisterous kids who miraculously become quiet when engrossed in a good challenge.

Extreme Droid Jump

Extreme Droid Jump

Free
Sure it's a shamless ripoff of the brainless cult iPhone game, Doodle Jump!, but instead of a doodle you're a cute little Android bug. For the uninitiated, Extreme Droid Jump involves you tilting your device, which controls where a jumping bug lands as he bounces from one platform up the next, snatching donuts, gingerbread, and other tasty Android treats along the way to increase your score.

Fruit Ninja Free

Fruit Ninja Free

Free
Having a tough day? Take out your anger on pieces of fruit. Seriously. There is something deeply satisfying about slicing explosive, sparkly, and glowing watermelons and bananas with samurai swords. Fruit Ninja Free combines gorgeous graphics, kitschy sound effects, and enough gameplay modes to suit your mood.

Pinball Arcade

Pinball Arcade

Free
Pinball Arcade is an addictive game that exquisitely recreates the look and to a certain extent, feel, of classic, trademarked pinball tables. The thoughtful detail in each leader board is really impressive. Connect online to play in tournaments or go head-to-head with your friends.

Sleepy Jack

Sleepy Jack

$0.99
This is casual gaming at its best: simple, fluid, gorgeous. In Sleepy Jack, you play a young boy flying through trippy dream sequences. Collect charms, shoot nightmarish villains, and dodge obstacles along the way to improve Jack's sleep. With 40 levels, this will keep you awake for hours (ha ha).

Stand O'Food 3

Stand O'Food 3

$2.49
Stand O'Food 3 is an addictive, if slightly bizarre, timed game that puts you in the role of a Japanese fast food burger chain employee (looks like Moss Burger to me). Slap together burgers while cooking up new ingredients, and beware competitors trying to undermine your business. The more levels you cruise through, the more money you can earn to upgrade your condiments and equipment. It's free for the first few rounds and $2.49 to unlock more.

Temple Run

Temple Run

Free
Temple Run couples great graphics with a very simple, arcade-like premise. In Temple Run, you play an Indiana Jones doppelganger clutching a golden icon, and your goal is to run away from evil eagle-gorilla monsters by tilting and swiping your way through obstacles in your path. The first Android release from March 28 was too buggy for prime time.

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline

99 cents
The racing game Asphalt 6: Adrenaline requires you to download a ridiculously large 600MB file to start, but hear me out on why it's worth it. In return for draining your battery and storage, Asphalt 6 gives you super sharp graphics, excellent sound effects, 42 cars and bikes (including Lamborghinis and Ferraris), and beautifully-designed tracks through major cities rendered in HD. Gameplay is slightly buggy, but forgivably so. You can race against up to six friends or play alone. It's no Need for Speed, but Asphalt is perhaps the highest-quality racing game available on Android.

Final Freeway 2R

Final Freeway 2R

99 cents
Final Freeway 2R is a throwback to the arcade racing game, OutRun, equipped with the 16-bit graphics and a 1980's pop soundtrack. You can pair three manga-like characters with different cars as you race your way through numerous tracks. Game controls are sensitive and work well on newer Android devices; even better on tablets. This is a rare winner among the abundance of Android driving games.

Draw Something

Draw Something

Free
Draw Something, the latest app craze, pits iOS and Android users in simple gesture-based drawing competitions. Pick a word from a list of three, draw it on your screen with your finger using a variety of colors and brushes, and then send it to your friend to guess what you've drawn. You win coins if your friend guesses correctly. It's very simple and, like Words With Friends, the addiction lies in the robust social aspect.

Hanging With Friends

Hanging With Friends

Free
Hanging With Friends is like Hangman, but more fun. The premise is the same—you have a limited number of chances to correctly guess words determined by your opponent. However, Hanging With Friends adds twists like different avatars, quirky sound effects, and upgrades to increase your lifeline.

Scramble With Friends Free

Scramble With Friends Free

Free
Of all the "With Friends" word games from developer Zynga, Scramble With Friends Free is my favorite. The goal is to find as many words as possible in a jumbled grid, while your opponent does the same. Whoever scores the most points, wins. The game is enhanced with Power Ups, Freeze Times, and other little ways to give yourself the upper hand.

Words With Friends

Words With Friends

Free
Words With Friends was the original "With Friends" app, and it's still one of the best. In this multiplayer game you build words on a Scrabble-like board, where certain tiles earn you more points. A built-in chat feature is handy for smack talk. Words With Friends is cross-platform and you can play with users of iOS, Nook, Kindle, and Facebook.

WordzUp

WordzUp

Free
Love Scramble With Friends but hate waiting for your friends to take their turn? Go solo with WordzUp, a scramble word game where the object is to find as many words on board as possible. Your only goal is to beat your own score. Pretty simple stuff, but if you want something more cerebral than Angry Birds, give this one a shot.

Bejeweled 2

Bejeweled 2

$2.99
Bejeweled 2 is a high-quality recreation of the classic match-three computer game, Bejeweled. The premise is very simple: match gems on a grid to get rid of them before they overwhelm your screen and you lose. It's highly addictive. The Android app incorporates crisp audio and visuals.

Bubble Wars

Bubble Wars

Free
Bubble Wars is a fresh twist on bubble-shooting games, which rely on the premise that you shoot bubbles at other bubbles of the same colored to get rid of them. In Bubble Wars, the obstacle is a hexagon in the center of your screen, and it spins based on the weight of the bubbles you shoot at it. It's ridiculously addictive. I really liked the two game modes, Defense and Attack, which reverse the goal of the game.

Everlands

Everlands

$1.99
Everlands is a challenging strategy-based game disguised in a world of cute cartoon animals. Your goal is to arrange your "good" animals, all with different strengths and weaknesses, in a way that defeats enemy animals. I highly recommend walking through the tutorial to master this deceptively complex game. The HD version has been optimized for high-end Android devices; if you're on a low-end one, check out the original Everlands for the same price.

Minecraft

Minecraft

$6.99
Minecraft appeals to both the creative and systematic sides of the brain. Quite simply, the point of the game is to build things from your arsenal of 36 different kinds of blocks. It also has some built-in social features to make construction work more fun.

Cartoon Wars: Gunner+

Cartoon Wars: Gunner+

Free
In this unique twist on tower defense games, you manage an army of scrappy black and white stick figures trying to overthrow your enslavers, who appear in color. Historical symbolism aside, Gunner+'s quick, smooth gameplay will engross you for hours, even if the graphics and sound are nothing to brag about.

FieldRunners HD

FieldRunners HD

$2.99
If you liked Plants vs. Zombies, FieldRunners HD will wow you. In this gorgeously designed tower defense game, your goal is to arrange your weapons in patterns that block the evil Fieldrunners from overtaking your tower. After you fly through the first few easy levels, the game becomes tough as new enemies and variables are introduced. There are literally hundreds of waves to overcome, so I guarantee tower defense addicts will keep this in their app drawer for a while.

Jelly Defense

Jelly Defense

$2.99
Behind the cutesy jelly monsters and upbeat, Passion Pit-like soundtrack lies a masterful, sophisticated tower defense game, that will appeal to probably everyone. The goal is to place jelly forts strategically in order to prevent jelly monsters from robbing your treasure. Your stash of forts is finite and time-sensitive. Developed by official “Top Developer” Infinite Dreams, Jelly Defense is a masterpiece and worth your money.

ZombieSmash

ZombieSmash

Free
In Zynga's ZombieSmash, you play a lonely survivor of the zombie apocalypse. You have to destroy zombies who want to EAT YOUR BRAINS by dragging and flicking them—some are more resilient than others. True to genre, Zynga's zombies move slowly, but they creep up on you from all corners to present an engaging challenge. Collect stars as you kill zombies to buy upgrades later.



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