An app review series that tells it to you straight; should you download or delete? This week our resident game reviewer plays Osmos HD on iOS, a cosmic themed game that’s absorbing from the moment you hit play.
If you haven’t checked out Osmos HD yet, this is a game that you won’t want to pass up on. OHD comes to us from Hemisphere Games.
The amazing visual creative & soundtrack made Osmos HD a winner of multiple “Game of the Year 2012” awards for its unique physics-based play, amazing graphics and hypnotic soundtrack.
The gameplay
The objective of Osmos HD is simple and the gameplay is casual, yet challenging.
In OHD you are a mote, which is basically this big ball of cosmic matter. Your goal is to grow larger by absorbing other motes in the gameplay area.
The gameplay experience brings enhanced multi-touch controls, allowing players to pinch to zoom, tap to eject mass and flick the screen left to warp time.
In addition, you can also slow things down and dodge agile objects in your path, or if you’d like to speed the pace up a bit for more of a challenge.
To propel yourself, you must tap on the screen to eject matter behind you, which in turn causes the size of your mote to decrease.
With 27 levels in the game’s “Odyssey Mode” and a manipulate difficulty level-based “Arcade Mode”, you’ll find yourself propelling your way through ambient playgrounds, deep solar systems, competitive petri dishes, dense mote-fields, and more.
The verdict
I’ve been playing the Osmosis for over a month now, and it kept the long boring flights on a recent trip to Europe quite entertaining.
OHD in a whole gets increasingly harder as you go on, so be make sure you keep your eye on the clock, or you’ll notice a few hours slip away.
Also, if you’re a Multi platform user, get the iPad version. The Visuals on the new iPad, are really stunning. Definitely a download
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