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Gorillas – Casual Game Review
Gorillas is a Casual/Action game from Maarten Billemont, first launched in 17th January 2009.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 48+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Gorillas Stand Out
Gorillas is a turn-based artillery-style game where the objective is to blast your opponent away using carefully touch-aimed bananas.
With a single touch of the display you determine the direction and speed of your banana's throw. Don't forget to take the wind into account!
Gorillas is now Game Center-enabled, allowing you to face your friends or random challengers at any time.
This is a port of the original DOS game to the iOS platform, enhanced with all the goodness iOS has to offer.
FEATURES:
● A classic feel coated with iOS goodness.
● Play against the AI, your friends, or both.
● Configurable or dynamically adjusted difficulty.
● A range of different world themes to play in.
● Various captivating game modes:
- Boot Camp: Train your aim.
- Classic: Play a quick match.
- Dynamic: Make the most awesome kill shots.
- Team: Team up with friends against the AIs.
- Last Man Standing: Stay alive the longest.
● Wind and weather effects, such as rain and snow.
● A range of excellent retro remixes.
● Sound effects, vibration and shaking.
● Camera action and game field zooming.
● Slow motion kill shot replays.
● Fully Open Source (JRL).
For more information and a demonstration of the gameplay, check out:
http://gorillas.lyndir.com
For any great ideas or valuable feedback:
[email protected]
Thanks for checking out Gorillas and letting us and your friends know what you think!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Gorillas is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th May 2014
Recent improvements include:
Removed analytics and added a link to http://thanks.lhunath.com
Download & Availability
Gorillas is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Please update it to support the latest ios.
Thanks for making this. We remember playing this on our PC back in the 80s.
We love it. Stays true to the original MS Dos game, but evolves it just enough to make it engaging and fresh. Thank you for creating this.
This does bring back memories. But we do miss being able to add in our own calculations. Thanks.
We played this game on weekends with our Dad as a child. It brings back fond memories of those days. Please update so we can play it again.
Doesn't let you type in values or support network play. What good is this game if you can only play against AI or share a device.
We wish you could type in angle and velocity like the original. It was educational and fun.
Live the graphic update – compared to the original.
We have to admit that we're not exactly new at this game. We had it on our computer way back in the DOS days. But we gotta tell you, we LOVE it! If you like taking turns to launch explosives at each other, you'll love these gorillas standing on buildings throwing explosive bananas at each other.
Loved the game until we could no longer play against a friend over wifi or a friend using our phone. It "X"ed out both options for some reason. Deleting app..suggest rest do the same.
Fun and addicting for those of us that enjoy trying to calculate the correct trajectory more than intensely good graphics. Always time for just ONE more round.
Seriously the one thing that's been missing.
Internet version unstable to the point of being unusable. Substantially less fun and intuitive than original game. Overall a disappointing waste of time.
The use of screen tapping makes certain shots actually impossible. It looks good, but the game play is really ruined by this glitch.
It is a great game and well worth 99 cents. We remember playing it as a kid in dosshell operating system on the old computers. Very well done and when u buy it you get two player modes. So glad someone made this game.
Great game. Used to play this all the time when we were a kid. The new feel is cool. We like the utilization of the iPhone's features. One gripe: Please add an option to play with the angles and speeds (we.e. Inputting numerical values to direct the throw). That's how we originally played it. Again, like the fresh version, but please add the numerical-input option! Still gets 5 stars from us. UPDATE: realize the angles and speeds are posted as you aim and thats great. Would still like the option to input numbers as well. Thanks.
We really enjoy this game. The controls are easy to use and the game play always leaves you with "we can play one more round.". The graphics are rather basic, as was the original game, but by adding the different weather conditions, it gives it a refreshed feel. The settings menu allows you to tweak the game, much like you would the original. You can also change the buildings and even the characters. As you go on, it becomes more taxing, but not to the point of the game losing it's "fun value.". We would like to see the old numerical aiming return as an option, but the touch method does work nicely with keeping up with this device. The vibrate feature adds to the overall game play, at the cost of battery life, but can be disabled. If you liked the original gorillas, then we highly recommend this. We feel it was money well spent and appreciate the time and effort that went into not only porting this to the iPhone/Touch, but adding new features to allow this older game come to life.
Personally, we'd like to see an option where you type in the angle and velocity.
We think this is a great game very entertaing! It crashed on us a couple of times but nothing to problematic. We would give it 5 stars if it had wi-fi multiplayer.
We remember Playing this game with our dad when we were little. Fun game probly worth a little less. (.99) but still a fun game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.6.1
- Size: 39.46 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Maarten Billemont
Last updated: 28th May 2014 | Genre: Casual, Action | Developer: Maarten Billemont