AppGear blurring line between toys and mobile apps with Foam Fighters and ZombieBurbz
Available from Tesco, Argos, Toys R Us, and online from today
AppGear and WowWee will be bringing two new toy/app hybrids to iOS and Android from today.
That's a fancy way of saying the games blend real-world toys with virtual-world games - think Skylanders and you're on the right track.
The first of these new app toys is Foam Fighters - a game that sees you dogfighting with up to seven other friends using the combination of app and small foam planes.
Each plane, once the wing is scanned, unlocks new campaigns and missions for you to play in the app, and can be attached to the back of the iPhone for Maximum Immersion while playing (as you can see in the picture below).
The second new game is ZombieBurbz, which, as you can probably tell, features the undead roaming around surburbia.
What's different here, however, is that you're not fighting the living dead, but rather fighting off the mobs of people who want to drive them from their new homes. They just want to lead a simple life, you see.
There are collectible figures to purchase (three in one pack), which can unlock new storylines and can be attached to the screen as a kind of mini-joystick. Clever.
Both titles are available now from Tesco, Argos, Toys R Us, and Smyths.
Commanding
AppGear has also dropped us a line to say that two further toy/app hybrids will be available from June. The first is an FPS called Elite CommandAR (nice pun), which uses toy guns to shoot. The second is Alien Jailbreak, in which you use the smartphone as binoculars to identify prison patrols.
The toy/app hybrid genre is still in its relative infancy, so it should be interesting to see how well these games fare in shops.
You can read more about the titles, and purchase them online for £9.99, by checking out AppGear's webshop.
