Pangea Software, creator of Enigmo and Cro-Mag Rally, has recently released a rather unique physics-based iPhone arcade-style action game known as Antimatter [App Store].
Antimatter is the ultimate arcade game for the iPhone and iPod Touch! You control a stream of Antimatter particles and use it to affect the Cosmic Strings while collecting powerups and bonus points. This game is so unique that it is hard to describe. The graphics are stunning, and the gameplay is very addictive.
Hard to describe? Quite. The playfield is comprised of a number of “cosmic strings" (lines) that lazily drift across the backdrop of space. The player controls a “stream of antimatter" (a really sparkly dot) by way of flick control anywhere on the screen surface. The goal is to turn the cosmic strings from blue to red by impacting them with the stream of antimatter. Once. A second impact turns the cosmic string back to blue, and so forth. It’s not a simple task, as the stream of antimatter is subject to inertia and, once it bounces into a cosmic string, it bounces right back off–frequently into a string that’s already been turned red. Various powerups that aid with the task at hand drift about the playfield, as well–shortening the cosmic strings, destroying strings on impact, etc. Bonus energy-catching levels are interspersed with the standard ones.
Ultimate arcade game? Well, perhaps not. I personally find Antimatter fun to play for the price but, granted, was wooed to some degree by various retro touches present in the game. A recent thread in our forums shows certain of our readers to be rather disappointed with the title. Hopefully our demonstration video will help readers make an informed decision.
Antimatter is Pangea’s first designed-from-the-ground-up game for the iPhone platform. Pangea was formed in 1987 by Brian Greenstone as an Apple II development house and shifted focus to the Macintosh in the early ’90s. Pangea has recently indicated it is dropping all Mac development and focusing exclusively on the iPhone platform.
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It looks very pretty but...
other than that the gameplay looks pathetic. It seems like they probably focused more on story and graphics, less on gameplay and fun.
But I'm just basing that off of the trailer video.
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Oh, looks like the Gamespot reviewer agrees with me and presumably, they've actually played the game.
if the screenshot on the top is the screenshot on iphone version ill definately buy this game (reminds me of oblivion in cave)
"other than that the gameplay looks pathetic."
It's an adventure game. The fun of adventure games comes from the story and puzzles, not running around and blowing stuff up, and the Gamespot reviewer doesn't agree with you--he said it was decent but kind of pedestrian. Overall it got average to pretty good reviews, like this one: http://www.justadventure.co... I've played the demo...if you like Myst-type games then you'd probably like this. If not, then you won't.