On September 10, 2009, under the Magnate Interactive Company, seller Matt Braun released "Liberty Boom" a good balanced game for iPod touch and iPhone running the third operating system for the iPhone platform. "Liberty Boom" can be found in Games category on App Store with a price list of $1.99 for the version 1.0.2. Magnate Interactive is a developer and seller of software applications.
This company represents the collaboration of several web professionals with expertise in engineering, design, illustration, animation, photography, and video production. Matthew Braun, Ryan Lanciaux, Joel Derkin, Nick Lanciaux, Roger Tipping, and Benjamin Derkin are the people behind the scenery. Because of them all the application under Magnate Interactive will deliver great user experience. Magnate Interactive develop not only iPod and iPhone games, but also dynamic websites, desktop applications, and applications for other mobile platforms.
Magnate Interactive headquarters is in Ohio. Liberty Boom provides a good, fun timing based gaming. This game provides a good balance between reflexes, patriotism and explosions. The game was developed in partnership with Mourlam Studios. The game play is quite good. Because this game is a casual game you are not getting a story line. Therefore, the game sets you in a nighttime tour of beautiful US city skylines. Your "mission" is to put on a spectacular show. You have to blow up fireworks rockets before reaching a specific line and make the crowd cheer you on. However, the sky is not all that clear. You have to be careful not to hit a plane, blimp, or helicopter before you reach the specific line. If you hit something, you will upset the crowd, and not scoring any points.
Even so, you have to hit the UFOs that will appear on the screen. These USOs are bonuses (the crowd will cheer you even if you hit them). On top of the screen you will get a tab that displays the crowd cheers, current level, total number of points and the number of the rockets you launched. At the bottom of the screen you will get for tap zones so that you can better control the launches (and navigation) of your rockets to the specific boarder. You can control the air crafts speed. But keep in mind, slow in one direction means fast from the other.
"Liberty Boom" is all about timing and reflexes. Beside the fun that it provides, you also get beautiful artwork and six original music tracks. Therefore you get great night skylines of New York (obviously), Miami, Dallas, Detroit, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Boston, Baltimore, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. However, this game like others has its drawbacks. Not everything is as great as it should be for a casual game. It is somehow weird when a casual game doesn't deliver the fun that was supposed to deliver. The game play experience is not that special.
The huge colorful artifact which covers half of the screen of your iPod touch and iPhone, every time you will blow up an UFO or just the rocket (for the cheer of the crowd) will obscure your view. The game doesn't really save your progress. It says it does but it doesn't. The controls are hard to manage. You probably will just tap numerous times before the game will actually receive information. Don't get alarmed it's not your touch screen, it is just the game. On the bright side, you are going to get bored, but on the down side, you are not going to have fun either. Because of the nice views of various cities this game keeps a reality control in check. However sometimes you may experience boos of your crowd even when you blow up the UFOs. However, "Liberty Boom" is a flash prototype game, with a good premise and future upgrades, this game could actually provide what it is suppose to, casual fun.
