IGN: Touchmaster 2 Review

IGN writes: "Midway got a jump on the "casual games" bandwagon early with last year’s Touchmaster, a mini-game collection branded with the company’s title used for those touch sensitive coin operated game machines you find sitting on the bar at nearly every pub in America. The success of that game obviously spawned a sequel in TouchMaster 2. A no-brainer, right? This sequel, produced by the same developer, introduces another large variety of games of varying quality and addictiveness. For the most part the package is just as worth it as the original Touchmaster was, even if the team left out online leaderboards in this run of the game.

It almost seems like the development team took a lot of our criticisms of what we said about the original Touchmaster to heart, as many of the issues we had with last year’s product have been cleaned up and rectified for the sequel. So the games have better relationships with each other thanks to a cleaner menu system, and there are far more "tap and drag" games than simply "tap tap tap" challenges that appeared in the original. Most of the 20 games in the package can even be sent to other systems wirelessly in a single-cartridge multiplayer mode, an option that was completely missing from the first Touchmaster."