AR: I love parking games.
Park Mania was an interesting challenge. I liked how the developer strung together the sequences, and how there was a hint of realism in how they played out. They started out gently enough; at first, all I had to do was figure out how to use the accelerometer and movement slider in conjunction (more on controls later) to park a small sedan into an empty space. The aisles were wide, and spacing was liberal.
Parking Mania HD is an addictive strategy puzzle game by Chillingo. The $3 game succeeds on numerous fronts, and smartly offers three unique control schemes—but gamers should beware of one potential weakness with those controls before they buy the game.
148apps: At its core, Chillingo’s Parking Mania HD has several key elements in common with maze-style games such as Ozone and Labyrinth 2. Using a top-down view, the goal in all of these games is to move an object from point a to point b. Outside of this basic mechanic, the theme and the controls available to players are what really make a maze game shine. In both cases, Parking Mania HD is only about average.
