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Summer is coming and holidays are coming for adults and, above all, for children. And since everything cannot be Santillana Vacations notebooks or beach or pool, it is worth having a few games to kill those waiting moments in airports, on the terraces or while sunbathing. From World Cup football to games based on series and fashion movies to funny crossroads with an author stamp to show our skills. Here we present five of the games for iOS and Android that will get the most talk this summer.
FIFA 18 World Cup
EA Sports launched its usual World Cup installment taking advantage of the long-standing agreement with the highest organ of world football, but this time it did so as a DLC of its annual version of FIFA. The delivery for mobile phones, although being able to play a final phase exactly the same - same groups and teams - as the one currently played in Russia, is more focused on the successful Ultimate Team. We can play games online with World Cup teams or start our own World Cup, but we will do it with players of that nationality at random, appearing on a card and with new victories or purchases of envelopes we can improve in skill or with other selectable of higher level.
With regard to purely football, the controls already introduced in previous versions are appreciated in which to pass or shoot are done by pressing in the area of the pitch where we want to send the ball. We can choose between this mode or the classic virtual joystick in the lower corners, but it seems to us that this somewhat more recent mode gives more dynamism to our actions. The pace of the matches is quite real - more than in the star version of the game for PS4 and XBox One - and also the contacts between players and the physics of the ball.
We miss that Electronic Arts has not left behind its obsession with Ultimate Team or for its World Cup version and that therefore it deprives us of being able to imitate Hierro or Deschamps composing our own eleven with the players that we see in the World Cup these days to try to get as far as possible. But despite this approach (which is actually an overlooked focus on fundraising in the FUT store), what comes to be online and against CPU games are some of the best football experiences that we can feel with. a mobile phone in hand. So if we do not want to separate ourselves from the beautiful game or being on the beach, FIFA 18 World Cup is one of the best options for it.
Jurassic World Alive
The most famous saga of dinosaurs returns to the cinema - this time directed by the Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona and not by its producer Spielberg- and it also makes it, in its second installment, to Android and iOS with Jurassic World Alive, a type of game that Due to its dynamics, many will find it inevitable to compare with the well-known Pokemon Go. And it is that the starting point is exactly the same, a map of Google Maps, the point where we are and the orientation in which we are. From there we will see on the map where the dinosaurs are, which have different classifications, although at first we will almost exclusively see those considered common.
Once we know which one we want to hunt (which is not to hunt as such, but to throw a tranquilizer dart at it), we test our aim on the touch screen by trying to reach it with the finger-based dart and if we manage to get hold of it, we will have the opportunity to improve it. and create our own specimen. Keep in mind that the number of darts is limited and that we can get more only with supply boxes scattered around the map. Yes, exactly the same as with poke stops Or also buying them with game credits or with real money. And is that if you are willing to spend money, the game will be much easier.
The best comes with the golden coins that allow us to go to the collection of dinosaurs, improve them and fight against them or against other online users. Without a doubt the point that will have the most pull in the game. Another strong point is the care of the graphics and how well balanced the improvement in the dinosaurs is. The penalty is the blatant tendency to give us few darts so that it is almost mandatory to spend to progress, leaving little room for player skill and improvements. Something that will not, however, make this Pokem… sorry, Jurassic World Alive, one of the games of the summer.
Westworld
The long-awaited game based on the hit HBO series has arrived on Android and iOS and has done so a day in advance of its scheduled date and a few days after the end of its second season on the North American cable network. The first thing we have to clarify is that, like many of the most popular games today, Westworld is free but with payments once we start playing, which will make us advance much faster in its development. And one of the things that are most striking to us shortly after we start playing is its aesthetics, in the purest cartoon style.
After a tutorial, on the screen we can see the park at the top and the Delos apartments at the bottom, as if they were underground. Our obligation will be to win codes in the game to manufacture hosts. The aim with all this is that the hosts satisfy the demands of the guests. This is where the expertise of the hosts in satisfying guests will come in, which will lead to the more satisfied they are, the greater the rewards received. When we start to play we will hardly see active rooms or areas of the park, and it will be by advancing in level as we can expand them. In the Delos control area we will have the workshop to repair hosts or the diagnostic room.
The problem with this mechanic is how exaggeratedly slow this process is, which progresses faster if we use gems, of which we cannot spend many because we will spend them all right away. Here comes the business and it is that with real money we can get thousands of gems to spend and make time go by faster and with it our evolution in the game. Again the blatant system is repeated that to advance and make the game agile we have to spend real money almost obligatorily. Despite this, and especially for fans of the series, the game fairly faithfully reflects the plot of HBO's magnificent work, which will make it one of the bets of the summer in terms of games.
Helix Jump
Helix Jump has been one of the revelations on the charts for both Android and iOS. The secret may lie in the sheer simplicity of its dynamics and purpose. And the stage consists of rotating discs fixed to a kind of tube in the center of the screen and with which we will have the mission of turning, either to the left or to the right, to release something similar to a paintball ball and there try to strain them through the holes of the discs until they reach the bottom, at the end of that tube, and successfully finish that level.
As we progress through the game, we will face discs that include deadly segments on each disc - we will recognize them by their red color - into which we will not be able to jump. If we do, the game will end there. We will also soon discover that if we fall through three or more holes during a single jump, we will either greatly increase our points or destroy the first disc the ball lands on, even if it does so in a deadly zone. This last option will reduce the time and risk to get to the bottom of the tube and finish that level.
It is true that such a simple dynamic makes the game monotonous after a while, but having a specific purpose - something not quite common in this type of game - gives it a certain emotion of being able to finish it. As you progress through the game, the levels slowly get more difficult, and the overall color scheme changes a bit, which doesn't make it more entertaining over time but does give a visual respite. The good news is that it is completely free, with no in-app purchases and, although with ads, it is not the type of game that abuses advertising. For all this Helix Jump is a short but fun adventure, it is like a summer love.
Love balls
Love Balls is another of those original games with simple mechanics but that more than our skill with our fingers, will put our imagination and mastery of spaces to the test. The task is very simple: two small balls, one blue and one pink, that we must make them join by means of a drawing on the screen. The line that we outline will accuse gravity, which means that if we draw it in the air, it falls. Something that is also useful because we can use them as a lever effect to push one ball towards another. On other occasions we will have pivots to be able to grab the line drawn to them and cause a curved effect that unites both balls when falling on them.
What at the beginning will require a simple solution, will become increasingly difficult with the passing of levels and will test our knowledge of physics and mastery of spaces. The design and interface of the game are very simple, which makes it visually lighter. Also the music that enlivens it is a slight, very friendly tone that does not become monotonous until after the hours. With Love Balls we find the proof that because it is a game with a somewhat simple concept, it does not mean that its dynamics and evolution become something monotonous and tedious.
Also noteworthy is the little publicity that emerges - every five or six levels - in a completely free game, something increasingly strange in the Android and iOS stores. Love Balls has been delighting many for a few months and we are sure that this summer it will continue to do so with those who were still unaware of its existence.
