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Posted on January 16th, 2010. Written by Shawn.

The name that can’t be pronounced is hands down the app that can’t let you down. This app comes from the developing group called ustwo, which focuses on bringing amazing design as well as exciting and innovative game play.  It takes a new approach to gaming, by allowing users to use the accelerometer to control how you play the game.

In the game, you take control of a little white ball (heads out of the gutters, men) and your goal is to see how many of the other blue balls (again – out of the gutters) you can attach yourself to whilst you avoid the red triangles. Sounds incredibly simplistic at a 3rd person view, but once you take control, the game shows it’s true colors as something amazingly innovative and spontaneous in design.

The app displays amazing use of a simple colors, while only using a limited amount of them. The way it plays itself off as a nice refreshing take on gaming really sparks interest in the eyes of newcomers to games that use the iPhone itself as its control. As hard as it is to find an app that uses such stunning design, but still captures the idea of being a game first, is nearly 1 in a million; but this is surely an exception. No other app has taken the idea running away, while protecting yourself and making yourself stronger in such a simplistic matter before.

The way this app controls itself really depends itself on the user and how well you like the accelerometer on the iPod or iPhone. You move your circle around the screen, you must tilt the device in numerous directions and jolt in others so that you can stay away from red triangular pieces but attach yourself to blue circles to make your character grow and gain a score. The more you try to win a game, or get involved, the more you release what a great app you’ve just bestowed upon. The app itself handles it self exceptionally well for what it’s been made to be, and how it’s been made – an iPhone game. This isn’t a port or anything of that kind or a simple idea put on paper – it’s a masterpiece.

If you want a time consuming app, an app that runs nicely, or an app that you want to simply escape from life, this app is for you. It runs nice, it controls nice and it takes game play to a new level.