One of the major disappointments for smartphone users switching from the iPhone to Android tends to be the lack of truly great games on the Google platform. However, this could be as much a problem with discovery mechanisms on the Android Market as it is a shortage of great titles. We've found that if you look closely there are some awesome games to buy and play and we've posted some of our favourites in the gallery below.
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Homerun Battle 3D
Com2us
US$4.99Even if baseball isn't your thing, we suggest you check out the lite version of this game. With slick 3D presentation, addictive gameplay and a clever multiplayer component, Homerun Battle stands out as one of our most-played titles on the Android platform.
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Real Football 2010
Gameloft
AU$6.00Though we don't love the on-screen virtual D-pad controls, we still love the speed and features available in this soccer sim. Including loads of real player names and TV-style commentary, Real Football is one of the most polished games you'll find for the Android. Strangely it's not on the Android Market, but you can grab it directly from Gameloft.
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Flight Frenzy Deluxe
Big Fun Games
£0.99Look familiar? Flight Frenzy is our pick of the Flight Control clones for Android, dishing up fun cartoony graphics and similar furious gameplay. Still, we'd love to see original Firemint games on the Google platform.
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Farm Frenzy
HeroCraft
£3.00Flight Frenzy not sating your lust for madness? Do you prefer your frenzy coupled with the simple life? Farm Frenzy is similar to time management titles like Flash-classic Dinner Dash, challenging you to create a supply chain of of farm goods while your resources are ravished by time and bears. Good wholesome fun.
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Assassin's Creed
Gameloft
US$2.99Another Gameloft title with a dreaded virtual D-pad, but we were surprised how much we enjoyed Assassin's Creed. Thanks to a fair bit of automation, the game manages to replicate some of the fast-moving fun of the console original.
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Radiant
Hexage.net
£1.50One of the bestselling titles on the Android Market, Radiant succeeds in recreating the classic Galaga-style gameplay, while adding a few flourishes of its own and a dash of humour for good measure.
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House M.D.
Hands-On Mobile.
US$2.02OK, hear us out. We know this sounds like a cheap TV tie-in, and in a way it is, but the puzzle elements of the game are fun, if short lived. In the game you play House and you must solve the various medical riddles by charging your team with information-gathering tasks, like Lab work or questioning the patient. Each task yields clues that help you eliminate possibilities until the true illness is discovered.
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Shoot U!
Camel Games
US$2.99Similar to the popular Ragdoll Blaster for iPhone, Shoot U is a physics puzzle that involves you shooting toys at the environment until you successfully hit the target. As with other Camel Games titles, the physics are the standout here.
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Iron Sight
Polarbit
US$3.99Set in the future, Iron Sight is a team-based mechwarrior battle sim where you control small teams of heavily-armed vehicles against packs of similarly lethal machines. Imagine the PC classic Worms with a 3D twist.
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Roland Garros 2009
Gameloft
FreeThis is a port of a Java title for feature phones and can be difficult to find online (it's not currently available on the Android Market). If you do track it down you'll be treated to some fairly fun and fast-paced tennis action with simple on-screen controls.
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Zen Table Tennis
RESETgame
US$4.99If you prefer your tennis indoors and with smaller balls, Zen Table Tennis is a decent 3D ball-whacker. There's not much to the title in the way of game modes or achievements, but the game is fun in short bursts.
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Antigen
Battery Powered Games, LLC
Free (with ads) or US$2.99While the House M.D. game earlier had you curing ailments using your powers of deduction, Antigen uses a more hands-on approach. You play an antibody charged with catching the icky illnesses before they damage the body.
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TowerBloxx
Digital Chocolate
US$4.99This is one of our all-time favourite Java games ported in all its glory to Android. Tower Bloxx consists of two puzzles, a city builder where you have to choose the location of construction for maximum population density, and the actual construction of the buildings themselves. This is one of the more addictive games available.
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Everlands
Hexage.net
£1.50Under its fuzzy-wuzzy, rainbow-coloured exterior, Everlands is essentially a turn-based battle simulator. Each mission has you deploying forest creatures one at a time and utilising the special powers of each.
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Big Range Hunting 2
Gameloft
US$2.99Unleash you inner monster and prey on the various innocent beasts of the wild.
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Jewellust
Smartpix Games
US$2.95If you've played Bejewelled then you've basically played Jewellust. Match three or more jewels from the puzzle board to eliminate them and continue until you reach the target score. Simple concept, hard to put down.
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Papa Stacker
Camel Games
US$1.99Like Shoot U, Papa Stacker uses great game physics to make this puzzler interesting. One part Tetris and one part Jenga, the object of Papa Stacker is to make the tower as high as possible using the pieces you are given in the order they are offered.
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Doodle Jump
GameHouse
US$2.49We have a suspicion this game needs no introduction. You play a weird, green thing that leaps from one thing to another thing, dodging dangerous things as you attempt to go higher than before.
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Drop7
Area/Code Games
US$2.99This might look like a boring game of Connect 4, but this puzzle is much more complex and more entertaining than that. The game's objective is to destroy the tiles before they fill one of the columns to the top. The numbered tiles explode when the number shown correlates with the total tiles in a given column or row, and these explosions can destroy the blank grey coins. This is a game for lovers of strategy.
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WordUp!
Anthrological
FreeWhat would a list of mobile phone games be without at least one word finder. WordUp! is our pick of the bunch, though there are several great games in this genre available.
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