Mid-week iOS releases: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard HD, 9mm, Kard Combat, Pocket RPG, and more
They're still hot
Another Wednesday can only mean one thing - another fresh batch of iOS releases.
If we brought you a story for every single new release, we wouldn't have time to eat, drink, or sleep, let alone get our fingers dirty playing them.
So, once again, sit back, relax, and check out all of the titles that should be appearing in the UK from around midnight.
Happy gaming...
iPhone
SuperRope
SuperRope is a free casual jumping game that sees you attempting to climb as high as you possibly can, by leaping between multiple ropes.
While avoiding the multiple hazards that litter each arena, you have to collect coins, megacoins, diamonds, and several other bonuses that add to your overall score.
There are currently five animated characters and five painted backgrounds to explore, with more planned for future updates.
Download SuperRope
Clickgamer's Hungry Chicks tasks you with feeding a handful of rumbling tummies with a double helping of juicy worms.
To do this, you have to successfully navigate dangerous obstacles, such as electric fences and rotating platforms, grab the slimy worms, and make it back to your nest.
You do this over 36 levels and across three different worlds, each complete with special hindrances. You earn a star rating at the end of each challenge based on your level of skill.
Download Hungry Chicks
Download Hungry Chicks HD
It's hard to imagine a Wednesday without a new Chillingo release, so it's a good job we don't have to.
Your aim in physics-based platformer Blobster is to save the land of Blobtopia from the Big and Powerful Corporation and its pollution.
This is done by flicking the game's hero across 40 levels, avoiding pitfalls and water hazards, grabbing power-ups, and squishing bad guys into mulch.
There are also 12 bonus levels to share with your bestest buddies.
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In Honey Tribe: Colony Collapse, you attempt to discover the reason behind the decline in bee colonys, by exploring two game modes and avoiding vicious predators.
For your hard-earned cash, you'll get hand-drawn art, Retina display support, and Game Center leaderboards and achievements.
Download Honey Tribe: Colony Collapse
CurveBot
CurveBot features 60 levels spread over 10 worlds, with 10 special bonus challenges also available.
To successfully save your friends, you'll have to contend with eight types of droid and collect seven varieties of Clever Coins, which gift you unique powers.
Download CurveBot
Virtual Villagers 5: New Believers
Virtual Villagers 5: New Believers tasks you with converting a gang of savages, by destroying their totems and removing their masks.
To do so, you'll have to complete several puzzles, find collectibles, and grab dozens of achievements.
The game features real-time weather and gameplay, meaning your villagers continue to work when you switch off your device.
Download Virtual Villages 5: New Believers
Download Virtual Villages 5: New Believers HD
There are 20 cities to battle through, challenging bosses, special abilities to master, and Game Center support for leaderboards and achievements.
Download Shake Spears
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Quiz Climber
Quiz Climber is, as you can imagine, a quiz game, which pits you against friends in a battle of wits.
Questions fall into various categories, including sport, music, film, science, entertainment, nature, history, and many, many more.
You can even get your hands on a free ad-supported version of the game.
Download Quiz Climber
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Milk and Coffee
Milk and Coffee is a physics-based puzzler that tasks you with helping a cat called Coffee navigate obstacles to reach his supply of milk.
You do this over 100 levels by deploying balloons and ramps, hitting switches, and performing stunts.
OpenFeint leaderboards are supported.
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iPadPocket RPG
Pocket RPG throws you into a world of monsters, dungeons, huge bosses, and treasure.
Choosing between three distinct classes – Blade Master, Dark Ranger, Battle Mage – you set off on randomly generated adventures across 3D environments, grabbing items and abilities to aid you in your quest.
The game utilises an automatic skill and statistic progression system, which rewards you based on the items that your character has equipped.
You can even unlock several Game Center achievements and climb leaderboards, providing you're good enough.
Download Pocket RPG
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard
Gameloft's tactical shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Shadow Vanguard has been available on the iPhone for quite some time, though if you've had the urge to shoot terrorists in the face using Apple's bigger gadget, you now can.
As the superior Rainbow Unit, you take on 11 missions across a foreign embassy, a rebel camp, and an oil rig, as you try to defeat an evil terrorist group.
You can attempt your mission with up to two friends via local and online multiplayer modes, or battle nine other players across five exclusive maps.
Download Tom Clancy's Raimbox Six: Shadow Vanguard HD
Reckless Getaway
Reckless Racing follow-up Reckless Getaway sees you dive behind the wheel of a car and attempt to escape the 'fuzz' following a bank robbery.
As with all good chases, this involves swerving between traffic, dodging oncoming cars, and smashing the pursuing police over 16 levels.
As well as a trunk-load full of cash – if you manage to escape – you can get your hands on several Game Center achievements.
New unlockable chapters and game modes are expected in future updates.
Download Reckless Getaway
Ever wanted to take a powerful two-wheeler and ride it over explosives, barrels, ladders, sick jumps, and cargo containers?
Yes? Well, Xtreme Wheels lets you do just that, over 20 physics-based levels.
You can play using analog or digital controls, or by using the accelerometer, as you attempt to beat your buddies to the top spot on the Game Center leaderboards.
If you're lucky enough to have one of those shiny iPad 2 things, you'll even be treated to extra graphical grunt.
Download Xtreme Wheels
Gameloft's second entry this week is Max Payne-esque shooter 9mm, which places you in the shoes of the law-bending cop John 'Loose' Kannon. Sigh.
Hunted for stealing millions of dollars in cash, you have to take out a gang's leader before he finds you first.
Free for All and Team Deathmath online multiplayer modes are also included for up to 12 players.
Download 9mm
Bitmap Brothers's real-time strategy title Z The Game charges you with capturing enemy territory and resources over 20 levels of action – each complete with factories and other installations to make your own.
You have six varieties of robot soldier at your disposal, armed with rifles, machine guns, and anti-tank missiles, and tanks, jeeps, and repair vehicles to master.
Z The Game features a conditional music system that reflects the current mood of the battle, and over 30 minutes of light-hearted movie sequences.
Download Z The Game
Deflex
Deflex is a relaxing puzzler from developer Llamasoft, in which you deflect lightballs around obstacles and into targets using two buttons and several angled pads.
Deflex is OpenFeint-enabled and features 52 leaderboards.
Download Deflex
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty places you in the shoes of the First Avenger in the battle against Red Skull.
Being a Super Soldier, you have an arsenal of combat moves at your disposal, stealth skills, and the ability to traverse tricky terrain by sliding on your shield.
To succeed in your mission, you have to deploy these skills over 24 levels, filled to the brim with multiple pathways and secret areas.
Download Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty
Kard Combat
Kard Combat has already been available for a short time in Canada, but it's finally made its way to UK shores.
Your aim is to battle your way up to the top of the mysterious Black Tower, by utilising 40 different kards and four unique classes – Holy, Death, Machine, and Dominator.
You can get your hands on further kards and furious battles through in-app purchases.
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