Chris Buffa (Modojo): Bugs don't usually make great video game characters? Cats, dogs and hedgehogs? Sure, but ants? Not so much. Undaunted by this, Pocket Gems Publishing slapped pairs of googly eyes onto these insects and tossed them into its latest iPhone and iPad release, Amazing Ants, a free-to-play puzzle game that essentially breaks down into traveling from point A to point B. Yeah right, if only it were that easy.
Sam Adonis continues his From Our Backyard series of games posted by developers on the Indie Game Magazine Community forums. Today he covers Amazing Ants from Below Zero Games, a Pac-Man'ish strategy game about ants fighting each other.
148apps: Amazing Ants is a physics based puzzle game with great levels and graphics.
Pocket Gamer: As you'll have no doubt read in my review of Pocket Gems's Amazing Ants, one of the biggest issues I have with this new freemium puzzler is the following:
Unless you're prepared to spend some cold hard cash, you will die of boredom BEFORE you get to experience all the good bits.
