Category: iPod

180 which is developed by Headcase Games is a great match 3 puzzle game, all you have to do is flip and shoot your coins.

The gameplay is easy to pick up. On the screen at the top are coloured coins with two sides, each side being a different colour. If you are happy with that colour you can leave it, if you want to change the colour you tap it and it flips over to the other colour.

At the bottom you’ll find the coin you are going to shoot out next. When you are happy to fire the coin out you just tap the space where you want it to fly. If the coin happens to match any of the other coins of the same colour, equaling three or more, it clears them off the screen. The game involves that you keep on doing this, but beware .. don’t let them cross the line at the bottom, or the game is over!

Where you can benefit with 180’s style of matching is the ability to flip these coins. You can see what colour is coming up next, so you then can change the colours at the top to try and match, ready for when that next coin shoots out. It adds a nice twist to the popular type of match-3 game already hugely popular in the app store.

There are three modes in which you can 180:

Endless – This mode sees how long you can keep the game going
Score Attack – Within this mode you have 90 seconds to gain a high score
Drop Attack – In this mode you get to add more lines to score points, choosing between a difficulty of either easy and hard

The graphics are bright and colourful and whilst you are playing there are some nice sound effects to accompany them. Another great feature to this game is that it is @OpenFeint enabled, so you can compete and play against your friends and family, collecting trophies and achievements.

There are so many games of this kind already available on the store, that I wasn’t sure how long my interest would last with 180. With the ability to flip the coins over though, it really (for me) made the gameplay a little more challenging than usual. 180 is a vibrant and colourful game in which you can use strategy and skill to gain those all important high score points. A puzzle game really for any age and one all the family can easily pick up and play.