Fruit Ninja - Halfbrick Studios

For the hundreds of millions of fans around the world with trillions of fruit sliced - thank you for you amazing continued support! You have made Fruit Ninja one of the most popular games of all time!

Fruit Ninja is a juicy action game enjoyed by millions of players around the world, with squishy, splatty and satisfying fruit carnage! Become the ultimate bringer of sweet, tasty destruction with every slash.

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"It's simple, fun and best of all challenging." - Touch Arcade Review

"Fruit Ninja is fun, fun, fun. It’s an instant pleasure." IGN review

"The low price makes the game more than worth it." - TUAW Review

"Fruit Ninja is the sort of game that has come to typify the rising dominance of quick, simple and most of all additively fun gameplay." - AppSpy Review

"You'll know it's fun, and you'll know you want to keep playing." - Slide to Play Review

"Fruit Ninja epitomizes all things a great iPhone game needs." - Resumeplay Review

"The game oozes style and polish." - AppAdvice Review

"My God this game is great. Best iPhone game in a while." - User review.

"Just spent 15 minutes on the crapper in my office complex playing this little gem of a game. Productivity -1" - Touch Arcade comment

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Swipe your finger across the screen to deliciously slash and splatter fruit like a true ninja warrior. Be careful of bombs – they are explosive to touch and will put a swift end to your juicy adventure!

Fruit Ninja features Classic, Zen and the amazing new Arcade mode, along with online multiplayer for Game Center-enabled devices! It also has awesome global leaderboards and achievements to unlock!

Your success will also please the wise ninja Sensei, who will accompany your journey with wise words and fun fruit facts.

Fruit Ninja is the messiest and most satisfying fruit game ever!

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Hey there Fruit Ninjas! We've heard your cries and answered the call - Fruit Ninja now supports iPhone 5! And the free content continues with new blades, extra backgrounds and fresh challenges! High scores are ripe for the taking so bolster your arsenal and get set for a Fruit Ninja bonanza

NEW BLADES:
Cloud Kicker - Predict your own weather!
Sakura Slicer - Let the petals fall in the wind

NEW BACKGROUNDS:
Cloudy Skies - Get some fresh air!
Cherry Blossom Background - Let the flower viewing festival begin!

NEW CHALLENGES:
Sharpen your skills and unlock awesome new swag!

IPHONE 5 SUPPORT:
Fruit Ninja has never been crisper! We've gone over the entire game to give it that extra shine!

FRUIT STORE:
Check out all the awesome new Fruit Ninja goodies to purchase, located in the Dojo!

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We want to thank each and every one of you for your continued and amazing support!
We're already working on our next update and can't wait to bring you more free content!
Keep the feedback coming and stay tuned for more exciting Fruit Ninja additions!

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From the makers of Fruit Ninja comes Fish Out Of Water, here's our review

Introduction

Chances are that if you have a smartphone of some kind, you've played, or at least heard of Halfbrick studios' mobile games. This is the team of developers behind smashing hit titles like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, to name a few. Now, the guys are back with a brand new game called Fish Out Of Water, which aims to win our hearts with innovative, easy-to-grasp gameplay and cartoonish visuals, not to mention that the characters they've created look pretty darn cute! It didn't take us long before we hit that “Download” button, eager to take Fish Out Of Water for a spin!

Gameplay

Right after launching Fish Out Of Water we were treated to a quick tutorial explaining the game's goal and mechanics. We were introduced to its protagonists as well – six adorable creatures, each with its own traits, physical features and personality, that you must perform aquatic acrobatics with in order to score points. To tell you the truth, playing the game is so simple that even a child can get the hang of it in no time. You pick a fish (or mammal, in case you choose Finlay the dolphin or Micro the whale) with the touch of a finger, then flick it to the right as far as you can – each skip across the water's surface and each meter it travels get you points. That's pretty much it! But while the game is easy to play, we got bored with it rather quickly. Little did we know that the next time we opened the game – an hour or so later, it would present us with different in-game weather conditions. These affect the game's physics, so each fish or mammal skips the waves rather differently. That not only adds a bit of variety to the game, but introduces an element of strategy by forcing you to pick the right creature depending on the weather in order to beat a high score. Another thing that makes Fish Out Of Water less monotone is the list of achievements to complete and the various goals that give you experience and extra bonuses.

Speaking of bonuses, you get boosts as your fish or mammal travels, while the crystals you collect while leveling up give you additional power-ups. Crystals can also be purchased with real money, but enjoying the game at its fullest is definitely possible without ever spending a dime on in-app purchases.

Graphics and sound

While Fish Out Of Water won't push your phone's GPU to its limits (although it did run a tad choppy on an iPhone 4), it comes with pretty visuals, composed of both 2D and 3D elements. In a nutshell, the game reminds us of a cartoon, which we find fitting for its theme and gameplay. The music and sound effects are also well picked for they carry the essence of summer, the beach, and all the splishy-splashy fun one can have in the water!

Conclusion

The skilled guys and girls at Halfbrick Studios have crafted their latest with attention to detail and it shows with each minute you spend playing Fish Out Of Water. But while it seems suitable for the younger gaming crowd, it isn't really made for hardcore gamers. It is a game for those times when you're on the bus, or in a line and you have a few spare minutes to kill. And while the game is cute and pretty, it seems rather shallow and gets boring quickly, even with the various challenges and the change of weather.

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Fish Out of Water! is the new iPhone game by the creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride

Fish Out Of Water! is a new game by Halfbrick Studios, the company behind Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, and it has just hit the Apple App Store. In it, you have the fun task to launch fish out of the water and into the blue skies for the longest possible flight. A group of crabs on the seaside will judge your attempts to best launch fish.

But pleasing these crab judges is not an easy task as each one of them has different ideas for a good launch - one likes distance, another likes more skips on the ocean surface, and there is just a grumpy one who’s never happy.

You have six different fish at your disposal, each with different skills and tricks, and each round you’d have to carefully pick the three that best fit the occasion. The environment changes and the more you go, the more you unlock. But Fish Out Of Water! is also the type of game you can just play for a few minutes and leave.

In either case, it’s a lot of fun for just a buck, so it wouldn’t hurt trying it, would it?

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