You can configure various settings, such as: points needed to win the game (05/07/09/11/), goal sizes, volume, table air volume, replay and lights.

Gameplay is fairly realistic – both players throw the puck around wildly without much aiming – just as in real life. A small glitch is that the puck often gets stuck in a corner and bounces around wildly. It’s a good idea to stay near your goal and play defensively, as this minimizes the chance of accidental goals scored at you.

The graphics are – like the rest of the game – simple, sharp and attractive. That’s the beauty of 2d – you can get quality, crisp graphics without any blurring.

All three playing modes work great. There is almost no lag on the WiFi multiplayer mode, but both players have to be in the same WiFi network for it to work.

There is also a $1.99 version of the game with no ads but everything else is the same.

Touch Hockey by FlipSide5 is a must-have app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Get it now.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

Cube is an excellent demonstration of iPhone’s potential as a gaming device.

But there are a lot of issues – most of which can be fixed:

First of all – the controls. They’re way too sensitive. You’ll easily find yourself running around the levels with no control over where you’re going. When you start the game, make sure you’re holding your iPhone/iPod touch flat and parallel to the ground, or it will calibrate incorrectly.

A great tip to reduce lag on iPhone:

Before starting up a high performance game, restart your iPhone/iPod touch to clear its active memory. Hold down the power button for 5 seconds and slide to turn your device off. Do the same to turn it on again. Voila! Your game should run much better now.

The game also supports multiplayer over both LAN and Internet but I’ve never really had the chance to play with someone, so I can’t comment on that. Not that you would get bored in single player mode… There are almost 50 maps to choose from, all packed with various monsters to kill.

The single player games are fast-paced, bloody and action packed. You run around very fast, shooting the heads off imps with a shotgun, launching rockets at demons and mowing through corridors with a machinegun – which is a lot of fun. And what’s best – it’s all free! Cube is an open-source game.

All-in-all, Cube would make an App Store hit if only Fernlighting would bother to make it feel at home on the iPhone.

Micro has DigiDrummer’s great layout, almost zero latency, the ability to record one track and play along to to your iPod music.

It features 8 full drum sets:

• Classic
• TD88
• Tight
• Bongo King
• Fatbeat
• 1985
• Brushed Jazz
• DD-808

The 8-pad drumset layout is way better for playing than the image of a drumset – seen in most other drum apps – because each drum has much more screen space, greatly reducing mistakes. Of course, the visual drumset is better for showing off, and the full DigiDrummer has kept that in mind.

The DigiDrummer family stands out from the other drumming apps with it’s incredibly low latency. The drum sounds are also very realistic and in quality 16-bit stereo. With a little amplification, DigiDrummer would probably fool most people. Another freat feature is the ability to slide from one drum to another. Play awesome drum rolls.

You can play along to your iPod music, but this is where DigiDrummer’s one fault stands out – it’s awfully quiet compared to most of your songs. While playing along, you can only hear your crash cymbals in most cases. A volume slider would be great, with the drums’ present volume set somewhere in the middle.

Hope to review the full version soon.

Waterslide Extreme is a fun game from Dare Digital Ltd.

You control a character (Male/Female) through a series of waterslides amidst a city center background. The aim is to collect as many diamonds and speed boosts as you can, while making sure you don’t fall of the slide.

In your way are also various obstacles -  such as crabs and ducks -  which slow you down when you hit them. In higher levels, you might also lose a life for going too slow, so watch out!

The controls might take a while to figure out, but when you get used to them you’ll enjoy it. Also, it’s a good idea to change the view to 3rd person from the options. The default, 1st person view makes it hard to see where you’re going in steep turns.

The full version game is free, and as it turns out -  an ad for Barclaycard! The menu has a very unobtrusive logo, which I failed to notice until playing the game for over 10 times. It’s surprising they didn’t litter the cityscape with endless banners like most corporate businesses would do. Thanks, barcleycard!

The graphics are great and gameplay doesn’t fall far behind. Well worth a download.

Once activated, Fake Caller will make your iPhone (or iPod touch) look like it’s locked and neutral. When the timer period runs out, it will wake up, play your ringtone and display a really authentic-looking caller screen – you can answer or decline a call. Once answered it switches to a fully functional call screen. You can put the call on hold or mute, you can add fictional calls, browse through your (real) contacts, etc. Once you end the call, the app automatically closes itself and you’ll be left with your iPhone’s home screen. Slick.

Everything can be configured:

• The timer (both by delay or time)
• Wallpaper
• Contact’s image
• Caller name / number
• Ringtone

Fake Caller is another free, ad-supported full app – so get it. You might find it useful someday.

TapDefense is a classsic tower defense game for the iPhone.

You are in charge of defending Heaven’s gates from the hordes of monsters escaping from hell. The enemies travel on a winding road across the screen and you have to build various towers beside the road to stop the monsters from getting into heaven.

All tower types (Arrows, Bombs, Water, Ice, Magic, Storm and Earthquake) have different ranges and damage rates, which can be improved by upgrades. The arrow, bomb and water towers are the basic towers. You can unlock the others using halos, one of which is earned every 10 levels or so. The halos can also be used to updgrade interest rates of your gold. You get gold for killing monsters and after every level you get interest from 14% to 25%. You can spend the money on new towers and upgrades.

There are various types of enemies -  each with their own strong and weak sides, which are often displayed before the start of a level. For example: firecats are very fast, but easily cooled down with water towers. Some monsters are resistant to a specific tower type. What’s great is that you can also build new towers while the enemies are moving, so if someone gets too far, you can build a tower in the right place to stop them.

TapDefese is part of a growing trend of  free, ad-supported games (has small banner ad between levels) like Lemonade Tycoon, which I will be reviewing next week.

The problem is that everyone’s handwriting is different and WritePad has a very hard time getting even one sentence right. At least it has a spare, “normal” keyboard for correcting errors. Just touch the button at the top-right corner of the screen. You can also save your WritePad notes, but you can’t open them in iPhone’s Notes or the other way round.

I made a little test to see if I could write a sentence  faster in Notes, using the normal (vertical) keyboard, or by drawing out the letters with WritePad. It took me 19 seconds to write “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”  in Notes and a poor 37 seconds to draw out something like “The Quick bro in fox jumps over the Lazt dog..” in WritePad. Judge for yourself.

And as I already had my stopwatch ready, I had a go in Notes with the new horizontal keyboard. 17 seconds. Almost 15% faster! Precision saves a lot of time.

Even though it makes a lot of mistakes, Write Pad is a fun way to write shorter notes and show off.

You are in control of a set of four F/A-18 Hornets. In the beginning of the game, you position your fighters in formation in a green box at the top of the screen.  Enemies appear at the bottom and you maneuver your fighters, trying to get them behind the enemy planes.

In each turn, you have 20 seconds to give orders to your planes. You can move a fighter in up to 9 directions, depending on its location. You mark the place where you want the plane to go. Once you have finished giving orders or when the time runs out, the orders are executed and the fighters move to their new locations.

Once you manage to get behind one of the enemy fighters, your plane will automatically lock onto it. A yellow box around the plane indicates a half missile lock, a red box shows full lock. You need to keep the enemy in the red area in front of your fighter for at least two turns to get full lock but once you do, the enemy plane has no chance of escape. Your fighter will automatically fire a missile. If you manage to get an enemy plane into the narrow, yellow area in front of your fighter, it will automatically open fire. It takes many turns of cannon fire to bring a plane down.

The game only has one level whith no options for changing difficulty or number of planes and as it’s relatively easy. You’ll start winning every time after playing for a few times. At least there is also a multiplayer mode which allows you to play against another iPhone or iPod touch over wifi.

The game has very nice, clean 2d graphics and some good special effects.

A really simple but fun app from Microlemon.

All you have to do is to hit a white dot on your sceen. After every hit, a new dot appears in a random location. The trick is that if you don’t hit the dot fast enough, it moves to a random location itself. You won’t notice it in the easy level, but in hard mode, it makes the game very difficult.

There are 3 difficulty levels: Easy (20 dots), Medium (25 dots) and Hard(30 dots). In the easy level, the dot moves after 1 second, in medium – twice a second-  and in hard – 3 times a second.

It’s a very fun test of reaction speed, finger coordination and patience. A great app to play a few times but keep to test your friends.