Price (as reviewed): Free from the AppStore!īuilt on an incredibly familiar premise and framework, EA’s Lemonade Tycoon is one of the best free apps on the AppStore and offers players a good few hours of business trading and lemon-mixing simulation.
Lemonade Tycoon Developer: Electronic Arts Verdict: While definitely playable and fun for the nostalgia factor, The Amazon Queen is still a way off from being King of the Jungle – especially when it’s freely available on the PC. Some recent updates have helped alleviate the problem by adding in an autosave feature and the likes, but they’ve been pretty infrequent. It’s a shame to see an otherwise fantastic iPhone release bought down by such awkward controls, but it really does impinge on the overall quality of the experience quite massively. It’s a pain in the arse to be honest, and it reduces even simple actions into drawn-out drag and tap situations. Rather than just tapping the buttons and what you want to interact with, you have to drag the cursor around everywhere, which requires the pointer to be off-set from your finger so you can actually see what you’re doing. One major problem with the iPhone version of Amazon Queen though is the controls, which aren’t at all as simple as you might hope. On the whole, Flight of the Amazon Queen is genuinely witty and fun adventure game.įlight of the Amazon Queen for the iPhone is hampered by poor controls The humour is a bit obvious compared to Lucasarts' titles and the voice-work so cheesy you could put it in a sandwich with some ham and pickle, but these are all minor faults. The gameplay is typical of the genre at its hey-day, with the humour coming thick and fast and the puzzles relying on a mix of pixel-hunting and creative thinking – sometimes a bit too creative actually, with plenty of red herrings to throw you off the scent. Inept but loveable, Joe messes up a simple job and finds himself stranded in the Amazon Jungle with the most famous actress in the world, a mad scientist and a bunch of his horrific experiments. Set mostly in a surprisingly populated portion of the Amazon jungle during the late 40s, Flight of the Amazon Queen was released first in 1995 and was a pastiche of Indiana Jones for the most part, casting players as pilot-for-hire Joe King. Price (as reviewed): $4.99 / £2.99 from the AppStore Flight of the Amazon Queen Developer: IPhsoft