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Soccars Review (iPhone)



Posted by Christophor Rick (TheSuperGuido), 308 days ago

It’s a one-on-one challenge to score goals. Soccars, from White Birds Productions, Xor Games and Bulky Pix, is a fairly simplistic soccer game. It’s you against the computer in one-on-one action to score goals. And it’s also another game that suffers from shoddy controls.

The concept is cool. You drive a car that has a sort of magnetic bumper that attracts the ball and the ability to thrust forward and shoot the ball. So does your opponents. You then attempt to score more goals than your opponent in the allotted time.

But that’s about the end of the coolness. There’s only one way to play and there’s little else to it. The controls consist of a tiny directional pad, a button for your bumper and a button for your special powers. The problem with the controls is the D-pad which isn’t all that accurate and will cause you no end of problems. I don’t know why they didn’t just allow you to place you finger anywhere on the screen to direct your car. It would be much easier than attemptint to use a one-inch D-pad on a touch screen.

The graphics are sort of gritty. Not in a bad way but in an indoor motocross arena way. The sounds are sort of shoddy with fairly generic crowd noises and some sounds for the cars but really, they’re poor.

This is another iPhone game that is a cool idea and would certainly be far cooler than it is if they had managed a very user friendly interface. As it is, it’s not all that great. Beating an opponent means you can use their vehicle, but with no stats or advantages, there’s no reason to use them. There’s no progression or anything else. Play against the ten opponents, unlock their cars and that’s it.

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 Our Rating for Soccars Review (iPhone)
6.0
Overall
Good concept, poor execution. Frustrating controls and pointless unlockable cars. Plus, it’s not all that challenging.

Rating: 0.0, votes: 0

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