Street Fighter IV (8.7/10)

I’ve been a fan of the Street Fighter franchise since way back in the day when they were still huge draws in the arcades.  (Yes, there were places back in ancient times when you could bring some quarters and play games for hours.)  The arcade battles were as fierce as the on screen counterpart.  In this iPhone rendition of Street Fighter IV, Capcom attempts to pack as much game into a handheld device as possible.

Graphically, it’s awesome.  Beautiful graphics pop off of the iPhone’s screen, as do the sounds.  However, the game falls quite short in the gameplay category.  Unless you are rocking some unknown, unmade controller, SFIV suffers a bit from the touch screen.  Capcom incorporated as much as possible into the game, but the most glaring strikes against the game lie within the lack of moves and characters.

If you’re a fan of SFIV, you’ll definitely enjoy this game.  Just don’t expect it to stand up to its next gen counterpart.

Twittelator [8.7/10]

Twittelator – [8.7/10]

For those who feel that being connected to the world at all times (or most of the time) is a must, Twittelator is a very functional Twitter client that will fulfill your needs.  If you think that a function is necessary, then Twittelator probably has it covered.  Lists, video/photo posting, geotagging, and my most useful function (due to the fact that we run a music show/website), song tagging.  The main gripe that I have with this app is the tweets don’t always “refresh” when they should.  Besides that, Twittelator is a pretty seamless application.

One could purchase quite a few separate apps for many of the options packed into the Twittelator package, so if you need an all-encompassing Twitter app… Twittelator will be a very competent choice.