Great Apps Gone Free on 1/29 Battle Bears and Titanic Rescue

Friday, January 29, 2010

“Great Apps Gone Free” is our daily column that features great and valuable paid apps that have just gone free. We’ve tested them and filtered out crappy apps from our list so these apps are actually worth your time to download. Get these apps quickly because some are just free for a limited time. Subscribe to our twitter account at @appsmachine or RSS feed for daily notifications of great apps that have gone free!

BATTLE BEARS 1.5

Battle Bears $0.99->FREE Offer expired. Now $1.99. Follow us on Twitter so you won’t miss it next time! (App Store) stars Oliver, a macho teddy bear, who must fight off legions of enemy teddy bears to avoid being HUGGED TO DEATH. Oliver will pick up lots of interesting weapons, including bazookas, flame throwers, and laser guns. These weapons will be useful against incoming enemy teddy bears as well as bosses.

Battle Bears has hilarious, yet challenging bosses that will make you laugh. Come on, flying unicorns taking off on top of a huge, giant unicorn serving as an “aircraft carrier”? It may seem ridiculous, but get ready for a tough fight. It will not be easy to beat. But even if you lose to a boss, you will be treated to a special, hilarious cut scene showing how Oliver died. So it’s not that bad.

Battle Bears is wacky and hilarious. Its ridiculous story is accompanied by hilarious cut scenes that will make you want to see what happens next.

Why is it Great? Together, Battle Bear’s wacky story and excellent survival shooting game play make it one of the top games in the App Store.

Titanic Rescue

Titanic Rescue $0.99->FREE (App Store) is a boat rescue game by Donut Games in which the player must rescue people jumping out from the cruise ship. The player can flick a person on the boat to make them jump out. He/she can also move the life boats with the finger to catch the jumping passengers.

It is not that easy as more and more people that need to be rescued appear all at once. It is so overwhelming that players usually don’t have time anymore to make the shipwrecked victim jump out of the boat themselves. Players should probably focus on catching them instead. However, each life boat cannot hold more than 3 people. There are also band boats that will not allow players to pickup the victims. Thus, catching all those people jumping out of the boat at once may not be an easy task. Luckily, Titanic Rescue allows five misses before declaring, “game over.”

But it is the challenge that makes Titanic Rescue so fun. Play it and see how many people you can rescue. Compare your score on the leaderboard.

Why is it Great? Saving shipwrecked passengers has never been so fun!

Please check the price of app before downloading. Prices can change at any time. Sometimes apps are even just free for a few hours before they get a new price.

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