Joe Danger Infinity is an excellent sequel to an excellent game, and joins the already decent lineup of iOS side-scrolling bike games with MFi controller support.
This is a significantly more impressive game than most of the others of the genre, though. The graphics, controls, sound, music, level design – everything is top notch, making for a polished and fun package.
Joe Danger Infinity would be a great game even without controller support, but the integration of physical controls put it over the top. Both the standard and extended layouts work great, and both feel superior to the (already good) touch controls.
In a sea of side-scrolling stunt racing games, Joe Danger Infinity stands out as a classic.
Clash of Puppets launched a few weeks ago with support for standard and extended MFi controllers, and itâs one of the better examples of a game that is improved through the use of hardware controls.
Touch screen platformers arenât easy – you either wind up with true platformers that are very difficult to control or you wind up with touch first platformers that have been stripped of much of the fun and depth.
Clash of Puppets isnât a great game. Although it has excellent graphics, gameplay, and production values, those strengths are squandered on somewhat boring levels. The thing is, playing this game with hardware controls feels better than playing many âbetterâ games that rely on touch controls. That isnât a minor strength – thatâs important. Playability makes up for a lot, and Clash of Puppets plays great with an iOS game controller.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is one of the biggest and best selling games of all time, and itâs available on the App Store with full controller support.
This particular game is probably one of the most important releases the App Store has ever had, and it launched with controller support.
GTA is playable with both the Logitech and the MOGA, and takes full advantage of both. Using the standard layout of the Logitech, movement is controlled with the directional pad, actions with the face buttons, driving with the shoulder buttons, and various supplemental controls with onscreen buttons. The extended layout of the MOGA includes all of those functions, changes movement from the directional pad to the joystick, allows camera control with the right joystick, and maps many supplemental buttons to the directional pad and extra shoulder buttons.
Standard and extended controllers are both significantly better than touch control (which is actually quite playable), but GTA really is a game that takes advantage of every button you throw at it. In this instance, playing San Andreas with the extended controller is the best way to play.
In fact, there is a good chance that playing San Andreas with an iPhone in the extended controller is the best portable GTA experience there has ever been.
Terraria is a side scrolling sandbox game in the same vein as Minecraft and Junk Jack, though with a little bit of additional inspiration from traditional RPG games – there are NPCs, boss fights, and light plot elements.
Terraria integrated controller support early, but the controls didnât work correctly on the Logitech, and werenât particularly great on the Moga. This latest update polishes the controls a bit and fixes the game to work with the Logitech – a particularly important fix, considering that Logitech has been using a picture of the non-functional Terraria on the box of their controller.
Tomb Raider. The original. The classic. This is one of the first truly Killer Apps for the iOS7 game controller platform. This game is close to unplayable with the touch screen, but is one of the best adventure games in the store when played with a controller.
At 99 cents US, this is a no brainer for anyone with a controller. Trying to play this game without the controller attached is one of the quickest ways I can think of to make you feel better about spending too much money on a controllerâ¦