Command And Conquer Red Alert 2

Developer: Electronic Arts Nederland BV
Publisher: EA Mobile
Released: 02 November 2009
Price: £5.99

I really wanted to review Red Alert on the iPhone. I am a massive fan of the Red Alert series all the way from the days when it was made by the awesome Westwood Studios so a new one that I could take about with me was like heaven. I downloaded on the day it came out. You probably worked out by now that it doesn’t work , and it doesn’t. I have tried to play it several times and it crashes out , sometimes it wont start other times are I have launched a game and then its crashed out but I have never played more than a minute of it. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. I got straight on the old twitter and tweeted EA mobile @EAmobile but they haven’t answered me so far. I checked iTunes and it saids all it requires is OS 3.0 which I have on my iPhone 3G. (Plus a lot of the reviews on there complain of the same crashing issues that I got ) Take a look at the Red Alert iTunes page here (You will need iTunes installed to follow the link). Hopefully EA will release an update to fix the game, they did a stunning job on Rockband so why they couldn’t get Red Alert to work. In the meantime if I was you and you don’t want to waste your hard earned £5.99 then I would give this a miss until an update is released. I am so disappointed that I couldn’t tell you that this is another amazing hit in the Red Alert series but as it doesn’t work I just can’t and I have given it a lot of goes.

I will update this if they fix the issues of finally tweet me back..

I download Rock Band for the iPhone today so I thought I would post my first impression. Full review will follow shortly. so here they are firstly it has facebook connect so you can post how you are doing on Facebook but it doesn’t seem to work for me even on my WI-FI connection it just crashes the application. Apart for that it is Awesome fun. Rock Band has been adapted wonderfully for the iPhone / iPod Touch. You basically have touch zones at the bottom of the screen for each one of the four notes. Like on the normal version of Rock Band the notes full down the screen and when they get to the correct place you touch the correct colour and it plays the note. Like on the full Rock Band you can choose to play Drums , Guitar , Bass or you can sing , you also can choose the level of difficulty and you have the “Overdrive” function by tilting the iPhone / iPod Touch. A lot of the other functions that players of the full game will recognise are also there including quick play , Career mode, Multiplayer ( v bluetooth ) and the Store (for which there is a free download at the moment so if like me and have downloaded it go grab the free download). Right I am going to carry on playing ready for a full review soon but for now heres some screen shots to wet you appetite and if you want to go get it you can use the buy now link above ( which will take you to iTunes store UK ).