Ngmoco's 'Dr. Awesome' Now Available
posted December 4th, 2008 12:02 AM EST by arn in $1.99, Action, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Ngmoco's newest entry into the iPhone gaming market appeared tonight: Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D. [App Store]
The latest game is priced at $1.99 and appears to offer a Qix-like gameplay where you must section off parts of the playing field:
You must perform microsurgery to isolate and eradicate the mutagens that have infected your friends, personalized from your contact list. Cut and trap the offending viruses with your accelerometer-guided micro scalpel, avoid disruptive virus counter attacks and collect various power-ups to succeed. You’ll need a need steady hand to be the best!
Features listed include:
- Use Tilt to perform microsurgery
- Isolate over 16 types of viruses and bacteria to save your patients
- Collect power ups to help give you an edge in the ER
- Save your friends, personalized from your contact list
- Enjoy the powerful visual styles from Escalation Studios, i am 8-bit Productions and Lord Mesa
App Store Link: Dr. Awesome, Microsurgeon M.D., $1.99
GOK, nice graphics, but someone tell me is this really fun?
I like it a lot. First person I had to save was my girlfriend. It uses your contact list to build a patient roster. It's got dizzy bee controls mixed with qix. Very arcadey. I highly recommend it. The graphics are very good.
best jezzball clone ever
i almost want it localized to japanese for extra fun
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@wintermoot: it IS localized to Japanese. Set your phone to Japanese and you will see it in all it's localized goodness. =)
Life or death surgery on people form your address book?
Most disturbing.
I think I'll buy it.
(PS, why do I have to re-enter the SAME anti-spam word 3 times before it gets accepted? It's been that way for maybe a week it seems.)
It's fun! I don't think I've tried tilt controls in a non-physics, non-3D game before. It works very well. I like the feel better than the usual 4-way control that Qix games use.
The game won't start here..
General app troubleshooting: restart the phone (hold home and sleep down, wait for the Apple logo and let go). This is sometimes needed when an new app (or app update) is installed.
It is a good game, and the address book thing is really funny, if a little bit disturbing (like, I saved my country house, killed a guy I didn't appreciate much, but feel kinda bad towards the good friends I haven't saved). The French translation is quite poor at times (“expired” is translated by the equivalent of starving, go figure). And at around levels 6-7-8 (around specialist grade), it gets quite difficult, and really gets on my nerves. I wonder if touch controls would help.