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hey guys this is Duncan and you're watching my second full application review this one's gonna be a little different the last one kind of focused on first-person shooters this one's gonna be more of just random which is probably what I'll be doing from now on okay the first app I'll be reviewing today is called I love fireworks light this app is pretty cool I've gotta admit I've never really checked out a whole lot of the fireworks applications and gotta say I'm impressed basically it's it's real simple there are about I don't know a cup at least two more on the app store on that I know of and I haven't tried those yet but from what I can see from this one it's it's pretty impressive basically what you do is you take your fingers on the screen and just just drag them up and let go and basically you get fireworks it sounds kind of simple it's pretty simple to do but it's really nice um you've got some nice graphics it really pops off the screen you get some decent music too which is kind of kind of some oh okay I'm sorry not music sound effects like fireworks music it's pretty cool you can there's all kinds of ways you just take your finger at the bottom of screen whatever dragged up and let go and it blows up and you can draw circles go round and round around do whatever you want you can use more than one finger you can use pretty much as many fingers you can fit on the screen I like take them on the bottom and drag them up the top and let go and have a big bunch if you take if you just tap you'll have to succumb smaller ones there's a lot of different features um especially for a light version it's it's really cool now I will say in the full version which is $2 at the moment it's basically the same thing except there are more they're more what do you call I guess the firework animations I'm not really sure but uh it does it does get slightly repetitive in the light version because they're probably only about two or three and you really don't pick them I mean all the fires mostly look the same I mean some of them some one blow up differently it doesn't look bad or anything but after a while you have the same thing I'm like so full version has a few more animations and I guess it has I'm not sure has described it recording um it's hard to explain basically you just hit record before you do it and you can record your entire show and then play as long as you want then stop it and then you can play it over again everything and there are two pre-recorded shows or whatever in the lite version to kind of show you what it's like and it's pretty impressive I mean I was just messing around with it and I went over there and looked at those pre-recorded shows them it's some pretty impressive stuff but anyway um I love fireworks light is it's a pretty good app it's it's obviously it's free it's a light version um I really don't think the paid versions that's probably not for me but this light version is definitely it's fun to pick up and play it for a little while um it's got some pretty nice graphics overall it's a pretty nice package um I definitely recommend go pick it up check it out see what you think and if you like it go for it go for the full version the second app I'll be reviewing is it's gonna be a really really simple basic kind of a kind of a really cool calming kind of app it's towards the top of the free app leaderboard right now it's number 2 or something I'm not really sure and it's called fluid now there have been a couple of other apps they're kind of kind of like this basically what you do is it's like I don't know I guess the it's like a pond or whatever and basically you touch you touch with you touch the screen and it's like ripples and everything I think it's on a koi pond yeah has i I think it's a boy pond the really cool thing about this is is that I mean it's totally basic I mean there's no menu there's no options basically you open it up and it's just this I mean that said it's not I mean it's it's an entertainment app and in my experience most of most entertainment apps are pretty much play it a little while than you get bored and this one definitely is the same way it's definitely pretty cool because you the touch when you and everything it's pretty realistic the way the waves and everything move but it's kind of a little not delayed but it can kind of get a little off and little seem just a little weird but it's definitely pretty cool because you can take multiple fingers you can tap you can push and it's kind of weird because some of the waves kind of go like off the screen almost as if like you're like looking at a small part of it and to come off the screen you can do it and also admit later some random waves I guess they come back it's kind of that's kind of weird part of it but in general fluid is really just a really kind of a basic kind of thing but it is free and I like it it's fun to try at least couple times I mean there's no harm and picking it up real quick it's a small download and everything I mean it's really simple I mean you've got all kinds of touch options and it does look like water and everything I mean it can be sometimes a little odd but in general it looks really really good I mean I would at least try it I mean I usually usually any kind of free app I'm not I'm not I'm not gonna be a big deal to try it but it's pretty cool um I'd say go for it try it would you like it you know keep it if not delete it and no harm done my last step that I'll be reviewing today is called trapped undead infection trap is definitely really cool game I like it a lot it's a lot like um a Game Boy dance game which what do you think it's a dollar and I mean this is the kind of game that I would probably gone out just a few years ago and paid thirty dollars for I think it's pretty cool um it's kind of like a Resident Evil style game you've got a lot of uh a lot of like zombies and there's a virus that apparently makes them it's it's it's not really that clear but I mean they're zombies who cares you're a you're a scientist your memories wiped out I don't want to be too spoilers I mean get into spoilers whatever but basically you're trying to you end up trying to figure out what's going on and that's it like that it's pretty cool game trap is a nice change in pace from the majority Python games especially in the horror genre while it lacks a lot of the pickup and play style of those other games it really more than makes up for it with an actual plot and a really nice amount of polish that elevated to the level of a console game easily I mean like I said the graphics they really do remind me of a Game Boy dance title which is nothing to be ashamed of had a $0.99 I mean that's that's pretty cool the controls are also kind of similar to the Game Boy Advance I mean even down to the on-screen d-pad and the buttons on the side however was all nearly well if every single a d-pad I've tried for the iPhone they just don't feel right I mean when I feel honestly d-pad I think you know a gameboy with real buttons obviously that's not gonna happen on the iPhone or iPod Touch but uh still still where as far as deep ads go I mean there's no problem I mean you should be able to walk around just fine the difficulty of game is actually quite a bit higher than the average game for iPhone with some challenging puzzles and some actually pretty difficult battles with some zombies that literally sing to me everywhere um however once you begin playing you generally will be able to dance and when you do get stuck and believe me you will get stuck no big deal to save there's lots of different save points no big deal to save shut off try it later because it does get complicated there's some really obscure things you mean you got really really look everywhere and I mean it's so definitely very different from the average iPhone game I mean it but believe me though when you do get stuck it's generally something really you know hiking something you never would have really thought of but I mean once you get through it it's usually pretty smooth sailing for a while until you find the next hard thing one liner problems a game and I I'm not gonna touch on this too much but one minor problem is a game in my opinion is the fact that the the play area which I guess it's kind of hard to see I guess you just have to really look at screenshots but the play area there's like a black border around it now I can kind of see I mean it looking looking at it at first when you start playing it really actually you might not even notice but uh where the buttons everything are it's kind of like there's like a lot of the screen that was just not used almost now I don't know if they did not want to do it widescreen I don't I don't know what the deal was but it just almost seems a little cheap I mean I don't know it might just be me but it's certainly not a deal-breaker um problems with the difficulty and the small size of screen they slightly hurt the game but really it's not that bad I mean the fact it looks great really nice man you've got a looks like a flashlight it's pretty creepy and some really good some good sound effects and some really creepy music it's perfect it provides you with many many hours of play time an actual plot it makes for a lot of fun considering for a dollar you have five six seven eight hour game maybe not quite that long depending on how long it takes you to figure everything out that's pretty impressive for a dollar I think and there's also a light version if you think you might like it go ahead and check it out in the App Store if you enjoy games like resident evil or just merely looking for a good console game for the iPhone this is probably it good I definitely recommend please check out the lite version be sure to check out centric comm for the latest app reviews and iPhone and iPod touch news thanks for watching guys