The iPhone’s best games
With more than 9,000 games available on the Apple iPhone store, the iPhone is becoming a contender to the Nintendo DS. However, as with the Nintendo games, the quality of games available varies from poor to excellent. In defense of the Apple iPhone, you could get 10 iPhone games for the price of one Nintendo game, although it could be argued that the depth of the games wouldn't come close to those on the Nintendo. 
The main drawback of the iPhone is that the touchsceen dosen't offer the precise control that the Nintendo unit does. Dallas News has a round-up of some of the better iPhone games out there, as follows:
•Zen Bound (Chillingo, $4.99): The best iPhone games are those that seem as if they couldn't have worked on any other device. Each level of this gem shows a 3-D sculpture with a string attached, and the idea is to rotate the object with your finger until most of its surface is wrapped by the string. Never has a game been more appropriately named; the challenging yet stress-free Zen Bound creates an eerie sense of calm. {star}{star}{star}{star}
•Flight Control (Firemint, $2.99): The most popular game at the App Store is as nerve-racking as Zen Bound is relaxing. You use your finger to guide aircraft safely onto runways, but it isn't long before the skies are filled with planes waiting for you to bring them home. A crash is inevitable – but that only makes you want to try again to get a better score. {star}{star}{star}
•The Oregon Trail (Gameloft, $5.99): Sure, pioneer travel was awful, but this revamp of an '80s classic brings it to life with vivid animation and wacky humor. Try not to let your kids get abducted by eagles. {star}{star}{star}
•Magnificent Gizmos & Gadgets (Publisher X, $1.99): This nifty physics-based puzzler will appeal to anyone who ever thought it would be fun to build a Rube Goldberg machine. {star}{star}1/2
•WordFu (ngmoco, 99 cents): Roll the lettered dice and find as many words as you can. It's a lighter, faster version of Boggle , and not quite as satisfying. {star}{star}
•Metal Gear Solid Touch (Konami, $7.99): Konami turns its epic espionage saga into a drab shooting gallery. A blatant case of trying to squeeze a high-profile franchise onto the wrong platform. {star}
Source: Dallas News
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