Touch Arcade: As both a lover of retro 1950s sci-fi design and an enthusiast of gaming history, it was inevitable that Rocket Patrol [Free (HD)] would snare my attention in its tractor beam. This recent, iPad-only release by GRL Games is a descendant of the classic card games Touring (1906) and the French-designed Mille Bornes (1954). Those games took two players on a head-to-head, cross-country automobile race, avoiding fender benders and flat tires along the way. Rocket Patrol trades wheels for warp drives, taking that competition into the final frontier.
148apps: Try to outwit (or outpay) your opponent in this card-based race across the galaxy.
Pocket Gamer: Space travel is made to sound exotic and thrilling by sci-fi films and books, but the truth is that it's rather monotonous.
Astronauts will speak of the daily grind of checks and maintenance tasks, interspersed by long periods of waiting for something to happen.
