I’ve chosen to do these two together because, they’re both from UFO, they both have balloons and really Balloon Animals isn’t a game at all.

First up Balloon Pop Plus - It’s a balloon popping (as you might have guessed) match three type game. You move the balloons by touching and dragging them left, right, up or down. That’s where the game simply blows it. The balloons are somewhat on the small side. If you’ve got little girl or dainty woman fingers you won’t have a problem. But if you’ve got average sized man hands or larger, you’re going to be infuriated. The game is t9otally one-dimensional. There are no special balloons even though some have stuff in them, they do absolutely nothing.

There are two modes story and puzzle. By Story they mean neverending and level progression depends on how many balloons you pop I’m guessing (it’s not at all clear really). This continues on and on until you make a mistake and a balloon touches a red line. When you create a balloon of three or more you have a set time before it will pop and everyhing moves. That gives you time to set up other balloons to pop at the same time.

In Puzzle Mode it’s more of the same except that you generally have only one move to pop all the balloons. Again the same problems plague this one where the balloons are still hard to control due to their size and really the game just isn’t engaging.

As far as iPhone titles go this game is mediocre. As far as iPhone match three games goes, it might be even lower. There are so many other more intereting titles to play I just can’t see many people choosing this one over the others. This is based on the 2007 Wii title Balloon Pop, though I don’t know where the plus is supposed to come in.

Overall: 5.0 Control problems, not all that interesting and totally flat gameplay.

Animal Balloons

Now on to Animal Balloons. Like the name says, this ’game’ is about making animals out of balloons. I’m not at all certain who this game was aimed for as I can’t really see it being interesting for anyone, even children. Perhaps if you were a struggling clown or magician who was doing children’s parties and needed some new tricks, this might teach you a thing or two.

All you do is choose an animal (and a background) then through touch screen gestures twist the on screen balloon so that you eventually have the chosen balloon animal. YAWN! Oh you can snap a pic and send them to your friends, sort of like a ’look how amazingly bored I am. I’m making balloon animals on my iPhone.’

Yes, that’s the whole ’game,’ there is no score, no goal and really...no point.

Overall: 0.0 - Unless this app is free I see no use for it really. I do not even consider it a game.