The last iPhone App I downloaded was Assassins Creed. At least I survived that longer than I did Terminator Salvation. Thought this round I'd go for something a little easier and requiring less skills.

Playing PacMan is not as easy on your iPhone as it would be with a joystick in an arcade. "PacMan I told you to go Right!"as I'd scream at my iPhone. Unfortunately Blinky got to him and I was unable to get to the cherry. I gave up after the first round after I had died. I then noticed when I tried to play again that there were different control modes. I was playing in a D-Pad mode (touching in the direction PacMan needs to move), but there's two other modes 1) Accelerometer by physically moving and shifitng my iPhone or 2) Swipe Mode where I swipe my finger across the screen to move PacMan. I tried both methods and failed miserably. I then realized maybe it's my technique. If I go back to D-Pad, I gotta get a touch and tap situation going on like in Tap Tap. That seemed to work a little better and I finally passed the first round.

Namco did a pretty good job brining PacMan to the iPhone. The Lite version is pretty good, but if you're a die hard PacMan addict go for the upgrade.


[Namco]