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CubicMan
Tested version: 1.0.1
Latest version: 1.0.1
Requires Android: from 1.5
Summary
The AndroidPIT team has been on a bit of a cube trip lately—we’ve been testing several apps that reference the hexadron (reviews will be coming up soon), and today’s app is no exception. The cuboid is the star of the show in CubicMan.
This is an app that will really give your brain cells a good workout. Whether that’s a good thing or not will be revealed in today’s test.
Test video
Features & Use
CubicMan is a logics game in which the goal is to navigate a cuboid through the playing field until you reach the target. In order to do so you can move the cuboid in any direction you please: you can role it lengthwise or sit it upright and knock it down again. However, if you’re clumsy about the way in which you maneuver the cuboid and let it slip outside of the playing field, you’ll have to start the same level all over again.
In some levels you’ll have to construct bridges in order to reach the goal. To do this you have to place the cuboid on the green or blue switches. These will then pull together the bridges visible in the playing field, thus enabling you to attain the finish.
There are also teleports, which look like two pink dots and which help you reach the goal. If you settle the cuboid atop of one of these dots it will be teleported to the second dot.
And finally, there are also traps, and if you place the cuboid onto one of these at an angle it will fall through them.
When you get to the goal the cuboid has to be upright in order for you to be able to complete the level.
You will need to apply logical thinking in the first few levels, although you can also master them just by trying things out. If you’re into logics games you should definitely check CubicMan out.
There’s a lite version which lets you get acquainted with the game.
Screen & Controls
The starting screen gives you the following options:
Arcade
Free Play
Options
Help
About
You have to play through the levels consecutively in the Arcade mode, whereas under Free Play you can choose which level you want to play, provided that you’ve gotten past it previously.
You can switch the sound on or off under Options, as well as clear your playing history.
You’ll find a few screens explaining the game’s main features under Help.
If you’ve started playing or selected a level manually, you can check the perimeters before really starting to play, in order to suss out where the goal is and how you can best navigate the cuboid there. And this is where my beef with CubicMan is, even though I don’t have any complaints about the game itself…
The first levels are quite small and so can be shown in their entirety on the screen. However, in order to view all the other levels you have to zoom around or use the Panning Mode so that you can scroll along the screen with your finger.
If your device has a trackball, you can comfortably zoom in and out of the playing field—but if you your phone doesn’t have a trackball you can’t use this option. Or at least, I couldn’t find a way of making the zoom function work on the Milestone. That being said, you can activate the Panning Mode by pressing the small green button on the bottom right. This will allow you to view the entire level by sliding through it with your finger, but it isn’t very precise.
Maneuvering the cuboid is child’s play, though.
Bottom line:
Despite my critique of how tricky it can by to get an overview of every level, I have to say that I enjoyed playing CubicMan quite a lot, and I predict that I’m not through playing just yet. Still, I’m only awarding three stars because of the above mentioned issue.
Speed & Stability
CubicMan ran very smoothly during the test, aside from the Panning Mode issue.
Price/Performance Ratio
You can download CubicMan from the Android Market for $2,99.
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mark jones
Outstanding, Excellent , iam still falling for it. Don't want to quit but i must for now. I give it 5 star's hand's down.