Tilt to Live for the iPhone is one of the most entertaining games I’ve played on any platform in quite some time. The premise is simple, the gameplay is simple, the graphics are simple, the controls are simple… and the experience is full of awesome.
In this top-down shooter, you pilot a single aircraft through a backdrop of psychedelic shapes and arrows circling around the screen, tasked to destroy as many red dots as possible before they destroy you. Your ship is controlled using the iPhone or iPod touch accelerometer, and while you might cringe at the thought of this, you shouldn’t; the controls feel accurate and even a little forgiving.
The developers have included three pre-configured settings for motion control: regular, top down, and sleepy. A custom setting allows users to independently adjust sensitivity and the angle at which they would like to play. The more you tilt, the faster your ship goes—it’s really that simple.
Unfortunately for you (but fortunately for gameplay), your ship has no onboard weapons to fight the swarms of oncoming dots. Instead, weapons spawn in random places and at random times around the screen. Each weapon is indicated by an orb of a particular color with a small logo on it. An orange orb with a nuclear sign acts as a nuke blast. When you barrel your ship into it, it destroys all dots within a small radius. Another weapon isn’t a weapon at all, but instead a power-up that provides a shield around your vessel. This is particularly useful as the game is “one hit and you’re done,” so the shield gives you one extra strike.
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