Category: Games
Version: 1.2.2
Price: £2.99
Description
For anyone that was a teenager in the early 2000s and like extreme sports, the word "tech-deck" is probably familiar. For anyone unfamiliar with these, a tech-deck was a finger-skateboard, a minute skateboard that you "rode" with your fingers to do tricks.
Unfortunately at the time, I for one was pretty awful with a fingerboard, but now, help is on hand as there is now an iPhone app that allows you to control an onscreen fingerboard around a virtual skatepark and perform a variety of manoeuvres such as flips, spins and grinds which earn the player points which you can combine to get a new high score.
However, there is a big problem with this application. The fingerboard takes up almost the entire screen of your iPhone, so it is impossible to get a good understanding of whereabouts in the park you are! This is even more frustrating when you realise that the skatepark is actually quite small and you may spend a lot of time running into the edge walls.
If you play touch grind HD on an iPad, (or search youtube for a video of it) you will see what I think touch grind should have been from the onset. Although I believe it is great fun, it is equally frustrating trying to line your board up to complete the perfect grind when practically all you can see on the screen is a giant skateboard!
Touchgrind on the iPhone
Touchgrind HD on the iPad - a much better version of the same app.
Rating
3/5 although I think this app is a GREAT concept, it fails to execute its potential with its poorly thought out view perspective.
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