With beautiful visuals, challenging yet simple gameplay and a stunning electronic soundtrack, Osmos for iPad offers a wonderfully intriguing experience.
• PRICE £2.99
• COM PA MY HEMISPHERE GAMES www.hemispheregames.com
PROSOffers new take on gameplay; Looks fantastic; Music an integral part of game.
CONS
Can be a bit too serene for some.
Overall score ★ ★★★
SPECIFICATIONS
Apple iPad
Osmos for iPad is a rare beast indeed.A wonderful game that looks fantastic, offers a new take on gameplay, and is so well suited to the iPad's large screen that it's hard to believe it was ever intended for any other system.
So it came as a surprise to find that Osmos for iPad was originally a highly regarded Windows PC game that's part of a genre known as 'ambient gaming'. This type of game offers a tranquilising experience, with trippy visuals and music that form an integral part of the game.
In this case you are a pulsating ball of light.Tapping around your ball emits a small pellet of light, which pushes you in that direction.The more you tap to move, the smaller your ball gets (as you push out light). Balls of light smaller than you (coloured blue) can be absorbed into your ball making it bigger. Larger balls of light than you (coloured red) absorb your light.The aim is typically to work your way up the light food chain by tapping around a level.
So far, so simple. But it's an engaging experience like no other.At times levels are simple enough to tap around, while others are fiendishly complicated. Different balls of light act differently. Some just float around, others are sentient like you (hunting around), some repel balls, and others act like large planets towards which everything gravitates.There are also anti-matter balls that absorb your energy while dissipating themselves.
What was originally an intriguing PC game has taken on a whole new life on the iPad.The touchscreen fits the gameplay perfectly, much better than a mouse ever would, fn fact the only single thing missing is online gaming where you could pit your wits against other live players.
Verdict
An utterly serene,yet fiendishly complicated game that deserves a place in every iPad owner's collection.This is one of the best IPad games we've played.
So it came as a surprise to find that Osmos for iPad was originally a highly regarded Windows PC game that's part of a genre known as 'ambient gaming'. This type of game offers a tranquilising experience, with trippy visuals and music that form an integral part of the game.
In this case you are a pulsating ball of light.Tapping around your ball emits a small pellet of light, which pushes you in that direction.The more you tap to move, the smaller your ball gets (as you push out light). Balls of light smaller than you (coloured blue) can be absorbed into your ball making it bigger. Larger balls of light than you (coloured red) absorb your light.The aim is typically to work your way up the light food chain by tapping around a level.
So far, so simple. But it's an engaging experience like no other.At times levels are simple enough to tap around, while others are fiendishly complicated. Different balls of light act differently. Some just float around, others are sentient like you (hunting around), some repel balls, and others act like large planets towards which everything gravitates.There are also anti-matter balls that absorb your energy while dissipating themselves.
What was originally an intriguing PC game has taken on a whole new life on the iPad.The touchscreen fits the gameplay perfectly, much better than a mouse ever would, fn fact the only single thing missing is online gaming where you could pit your wits against other live players.
Verdict
An utterly serene,yet fiendishly complicated game that deserves a place in every iPad owner's collection.This is one of the best IPad games we've played.
"Tapping around your ball emits a pellet of light and pushes you in that direction"
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