Crazy Penguin Catapult

Catagory: strategy games
Price: $4.99
App Store Link: [Full] / [Free Lite]

Review: Love it
Recommendation: Worth the $4.99 price tag, but try the lite version first to be sure.
Replay Value: Medium-High

Crazy Penguin Catapult is immensely fun and entertaining. Players control a rag-tag squad of cute penguin troops on a mission to recover their kidnapped brethren from the clutches of the tyrannical polar bears. At the start of each of the 30+ levels, players must launch their penguins into action by catapulting them through a narrow opening. Then, based on the number of successful catapults, players bomb the polar bears with bouncing penguins. Players can earn stars to help upgrade the penguins on their mission. Stars can be earned by meeting the minimum requirements for each level (i.e. the number of polar bears demolished), and additional stars can be earned by taking out all the bears. Upgrades include things like flaming penguins, ninja penguins, exploding penguins, etc.

Additionally, the game comes with a bonus strategy mini-game in which players take turns with the AI competing for neighboring territories.

All in all this game is a lot of fun with very decent replay value. I personally found it hard to put down. In fact, Digital Chocolate Inc. should take it as a complement that their biggest criticism is that the game doesn't have enough levels. The game does, in fact, have many levels; it's just so much fun, however, that it leaves players wanting more. If we're lucky, maybe Digital Chocolate will eventually give it to us. Great game. Try it, then buy it.

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Gameplay Video

Note: this is not the iPhone version, but the differences are negligible.

~M@