Touch Arcade

Once you learn which lanes you need to be in and when to be in them, there isn't much to keep you coming back. If you liked Excitebike's style of play a lot, or you just want to play around with a slightly different kind of racer, Rail Racing is an enjoyable enough romp for your money, but it's probably not something you'll come back to much after your initial playthrough.

Line Knight Fortix can be an ordeal for quite a while after you start your adventure and try to figure it out, but if you stick with it, you'll pick it up before you know it. The controls definitely need some work, but for those of you who have grown up on challenging action puzzle games, you should feel right at home. With a few tweaks and added support for leaderboards, the mobile version of Fortix would be a much stronger package.

There’s little to complain about with Shadow Blade. It’s a great action platformer with smooth controls and plenty of that Ninja goodness. There’s also enough variety in terms of level design that, when combined with the objective-based gameplay, offers a decent amount of replayability. Sure, I would have liked more levels (a common complaint I find with similar games) or maybe more of an action-oriented survival mode, but as currently presented Shadow Blade is well worth your time.

Doctor Who: Legacy might not be a love letter to the series, but it's clearly in love with it. If you share that loyalty, there's plenty of fun to be had with the game. Its gem matching is of a clever sort (if not at all original) and you'll be busy for hours unlocking your favorite characters.

The original game's design somehow suits mobile platforms to a tee. While there are some issues, mostly dealing with the platforming sections, and Duke's cool factor has kind of blinkered out over the years, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is still a kick-ass trip.

It's on the cusp of something really good with the battles, but the lack of variety hurts that end of things the same way it hits the whole game. Meanwhile, the non-combat aspects of the game are kind of dreadful, thanks to the slow speed, weak dungeon design, and stale environments.

Joe Danger Infinity has a terrific theme, sure to be fun for everyone who plays it, and will keep you coming back to beat your best and keep climbing the leaderboards. There's no paywall to hinder your progress, and each level has a three-objective rating for the completionists in us all.

This is probably King's best game on iOS since Candy Crush, though it still falls well short of it. The gameplay variation is clever and I really enjoyed that, and putting in free boosters on a cooldown timer is definitely a step in the direction of fairness. The game gets ridiculously hard after a while, which is a positive in my books, but your mileage on that will vary depending on how stubborn you are. ...Still, even if you don't intend to pay a cent, there's quite a lot of content here, and for match-3 fans, I think it's worth a play.

But if you just want to kill some time trying to get a car from one spot to another and put in the time to learn the ins and outs, Jet Car Stunts 2 is the perfect way to spend an afternoon. It basically feels like Sony's Wipeout for iOS, and that's a great thing.

it will at least deliver another satisfying story for the many people who enjoyed the first game. We'll just have to wait and see where it all goes from here.