Top 5 Halloween games on bada

Are you planning to spend this Halloween pilfering sweets from your terrified elderly neighbours? Or throwing bogroll over the local apple tree? Or carefully removing razor blades from an apple?

Or perhaps you won't be doing anything at all, because you don't think Halloween is a proper holiday.

Whatever the case, there are some cracking Halloween-themed games out there in the bada-verse.

And we don't just mean Plants vs. Zombies.

The team that gave us Turbo Grannies seems to specialise in making motocross racers out of the least likely protagonists.

What with their decreased brain activity and lack of hand-eye co-ordination, you'd think zombies would find it harder to ride down a bumpier version of Route 66 than Zombie Rider makes it seem.

The simplicity of the controls (touch the screen to accelerate, release to stop) belie the tactical nature of this physics-inspired racer. Shuffling up the scoreboards is more a case of terrain traversal than reaching ripping high speeds.

Whilst we're all for original content, sometimes it's good to shake off the shackles of innovation and simply settle down with a classic.

Haunted Breakout is essentially an exact replica of almost every other Breakout game out there, which, if you happen to enjoy smashing blocks with a paddle and ball, is no bad thing.

It's hardly going to keep you up at night, but it's a kooky, spooky take on a tried-and-tested formula.

In the absence of a certain game involving an eternal battle between horticulture and the undead, Frootrees Halloween will hopefully provide as much plant life-based time-management gaming as you could want.

Plucking pumpkins off the spooky Halloween tree is a cinch. The problems hit home when multiple vegetables appear at once as you struggle to keep up.

Fling a ripe 'un into the box at the bottom of the screen and you'll pick up a solid three points, but act too early or too late and the putrid/unready pumpkin will only get you a single point.

Let one fall off the tree and hit the ground, though, and it's lights out for good.

The word 'apocalypse' is bandied about a lot in the entertainment industry, with most stories and games set after the end of the world seemingly implying that it will signal an age of brigandry, beards, and potentially cannibalism.

Thankfully, slapping the word 'zombie' on the front means there's plenty to distract you from the mundane activities associated with the destruction of all life on earth.

You'll be far too busy vapourising the undead to spend time worrying about survival. Especially when upgradable weapons and both Campaign and Survival modes come into play.

Remember the Living Dead movies by George A. Romero? Of course you do. They were the first zombie movies to put viewers in the bloodstained shoes of those poor unfortunates caught in the middle of a zombie siege.

It's a formula that Zombie Slaughter hopes will give it the edge over its innumerable zombie brethren. Controlling your spritely avatar from an isometric viewpoint, you'll have to prevent the undead from getting into your country home.

With, you guessed it, upgradable weaponry.