We’ve been playing Super Monkey Ball for a few minutes — OK, hours — now, and it’s every bit as fun as promised. If you’re not familiar with this title, which has been made uber-popular on other gaming platforms, the gameplay is thus: you are one of four monkey characters who happens to reside in a clear sphere. Your goal is to roll around a series of precariously strung platforms into the goal portal. On the iPhone, control is accelerometer-based — simply tilting the device back and forth controls your momentum.
Our initial observations:
- The controls take some serious getting-used-to, even if you’re used to the motion-sensitive Nintendo Wii version of this game. It’s very easy to get rolling too fast, we haven’t yet mastered exact maneuvers.
- You can hold your finger on the screen to rapidly start a level during the “fly-in” intro.
- Tap the timer to pause the game
- If your iPhone is resting on a flat surface when the level starts, the accelerometer will be at full-forward throttle, and you’ll likely fall off the edge.
- There are five worlds and 110 stages.
- Like other versions of the game, you must unlock the more difficult setting by completing various stages.
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