Nothing succeeds like success – and Artificial life is counting on that to help them with their latest iPhone games releases – Spartacus and Red Bull Racing Challenge. And they have every reason to feel confident, despite the price tags that go with the new games. If you take a look at the effort they have put in over the last 12 months, it is clear that they are serious about getting games out there that we will want to download. According to a press release by Artificial Life this week:
as of December 31st, 2009, it has produced and released 24 games for the iPhone and iPod touch. So far, the top title was downloaded for close to 2.1 million times, the second most for over 1.5 million times and the third, which was launched in early December, 2009, achieved over 1 million downloads in just one month.
Now, obviously, they are out to earn $ along with our appreciation. But consider the recently released Amateur Surgeon Christmas Edition .
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The original version of “Amateur Surgeon” is probably their most successful game (the lite (free) version is probably the game that has reached 2.1 million downloads) and given the game has a price tag of $2.99, they have done well with this game – it has a 4-star rating from over 9,000 reviews!!).
And yet, they gave us the Christmas version for free (there has already been 42,935 people rating this game at 3.5 stars)! They were smart and released a lite version first- which has had a massive 135, 080 people giving it a 3.5 star rating!
Their other big successes (big numbers downloading the game and giving it a 3 star or better rating) are: iSoccer Backstreet Lite (over 4500 people give it a 3.star or better rating), and BMW Sauber F1 Team Racing 09 Lite (over 2,600 people giving it a 3-star rating or better)
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Other free iPhone games they have released that have received a 3-star or better rating are: iDroidsMania Lite; Pandorum Lite; and iSink u lite.
If you have not tried out any of Artificial Life’s games then we suggest you start with the free games listed here.
The two just-released games have price tags. Sparticus has a split response so far. Those that have given it a rating clearly either love it or hate it (predominance of ‘5’ or ‘1’ star ratings). But its official release is not till Friday 22nd Jan – so its not been widely downloaded as yet. If that gets you interested, then check out the official video demo of the game:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrpXBRbdC4U[/youtube]