Tap Zoo

Tap Zoo is a very popular iOS freemium title, often observed in the ‘Top Grossing’ section of the App store. In the game, you place different animal types around you island zoo and wait to accumulate an income from these animals. The ease of the game, cute graphics and big bold buttons would make this a great game for kids. But if you give this game to children be sure to turn off in-app purchases!

Zombie Farm

Zombie Farm is a freemium farming game; grow everything from carrots to radishes. The surprise is you can also grow zombies! Grow zombies alongside your carrots and build an army capable of taking down neighbouring farmers in an attempt to earn a reward of brains! Zombie Farm is a good paced, well thought out freemium title and it boasts a number of interesting gameplay ideas. For example, growing zombies next to plants to induce mutated zombies such as the feared carrot zombie! The graphics, are cute despite the theme, making this another title suitable for all.

Istunt2 HD – insane hills

Istunt is a fun fast moving games, the music is awesome and the scenery is beautiful. All you have to do is to control the balance of the snowboarder by tilting your iPad, then as you progress to new levels there are new challenges and options all explained to you with clear on-screen instructions. Built for iPad and released on 12 April, this game is already a big success with raving reviews on the app store.

Pocket Legends

The fact that Pocket Legends is free is a minor miracle amongst gaming fans, considering how damn good the game play is. In Pocket Legends you choose your avatar – either a warrior, an enchantress or an archer – then head out on an adventure. Pick from a list of active online sessions and join in. You can chat with other players on the ‘net in real-time, and fight together against creatures and demons on each level as you try to win the treasure. Upgrade your armor, fighting skills, and buy additional gear and potions. Imaginative landscapes – from forests to castles – deliver a lot of fun detail.

Angry Birds Rio HD Free

They have done it again! Following their unprecedented success with their iPhone game, developers Rovio have reached number 1 with their iPad version! It definitely deserves to be on this list, as the iPad’s larger screen allows the gameplay to be enhanced to a degree that simply can’t be reached on the iPhone’s smaller display.

Smurfs’ Village

Smurfs’ Village is probably the best known iOS freemium game. In Smurfs’ Village you strive to build a thriving habitat for your little blue creatures, building mushroom houses, growing crops, and performing other communal duties.The goal? To create a safe haven from the evil wizard Gargamel. The app is heavily dependent on the in-app purchasing of ‘Smurfberries’, a currency which both eases the gameplay for the player and unlocks special, beneficial items. It is very easy to quickly use all your available Smurfberries and the temptation to buy more is definitely the highest out of all the listed games here.

Your Opinions

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• Full HD 1080p TV-out and dual screen gaming support on iPad 2. Experience Real Racing 2 HD like never before in stunning, true 1080p while real-time racing telemetry is displayed on iPad 2
• Enhanced visuals for Alkeisha Island and San Arcana tracks on iPad 2
• Memory optimizations to minimize crashes
• Various minor improvements and fixes

When playing in dual screen mode, the iPad acts as a steering wheel for driving your car in addition to showing other information pertaining to the race, like the course map.  I have a feeling this will be a pretty big selling point and a popular feature among gamers that will convince other developers to support 1080p video output in their titles.

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Best iPad Games for Kids  – Fish School HD

—-From Duck Duck Moose, best for age 2 to 5

There is an iPad exclusive game app for kids. It offers preschoolers eight fish-themed activities. In each, schools of fish swim into formations that teach letters, numbers, shapes, colors and more. This iPad game app for kids is can reinforce the word announcing, bringing a magical experience for kids. The simple interface rewards every touch of a kid’s finger.

Best iPad Games for Kids  -  The Lorax and Lorax Garden

—-From Oceanhouse Media, best for age 4 and up

The Lorax can improve the ability of kids to touch anything in the illustrations and have it connected to the written word. Kids love this. The Lorax Garden offers a child a way to personally fix the desolated world by growing the missing Truffula trees and a wide variety of Seussian flowers. This iPad app game for kids is a meaningful and charming one.

Best iPad Games for Kids – Sneezies HD

—-By Chillingo Ltd, best for age 4 and up

It’s an interesting iPad app for kids, where furry little pompoms called Sneezies float across bucolic backgrounds. They’re trapped in bubbles. Kids can play it to free them by sprinkling sneezing powder, enjoy the fantastic HD graphics. Very favorite iPad app for kids.

Best iPad Games for Kids – Miss Spider’s Tea Party

—-From Callaway Arts & Entertainment, best for age 3 to 8

This app shines on iPad for kids. When watching it as an animated movie with words highlighted as it is read aloud. It is amazing, because you are watching CGI graphics that look like a Pixar movie, but it sounds like a read-aloud book. This iPad exclusive app also offers easy jigsaw puzzles, a fabulous coloring program with pages from the book and a concentration matching game.

Tap Tap Radiation
If bashing mindlessly at your iPad with your finger to a rhythm is your kind of thing then Tap Tap Radiation is the iPad game for you.

Here the idea is to touch the circle as a flying orb lands within it in time with the music. The more times you do that the more points you get and the more you’ll feel proud about yourself as if you’ve actually achieved something with your 20 minutes of spare time.

Labyrinth 2 HD
Designed for the bigger iPad screen, Labyrinth 2 HD is a game based on the Victorian marble in a maze game and for those who’ve played the first outing brings a host of new elements to the game like cannons, bumpers multiple balls and magnets to work your way around.

Rush Hour HD
Puzzle games are always great and that goes for Rush Hour, a puzzle game that sees you move cars out of gridlock so you can get the red car out of the box.

It’s a classic game that involves lots of pieces that you’ll eventually loose or not be able to fit in your carry on luggage when you jump on a plane for your holidays.There are two versions of Rush Hour HD in the app store for the iPad – a free version with 35 scenarios and a full version with over 200 that will cost you £1.79 / $2.99.

Air Hockey
Yep, the Air Hockey game that you spent all that time on in the arcade as a kid is now on the iPad ready for you to play against. There are two options here, 1 player and 2 player, allowing you to whittle away an hour or two playing against the iPad or with another mate on the other side of the iPad.

Game Table
Letting you play checkers (draughts), chess and cards is the aim of Game Table. At 59p or 99 cents, it’s a steal and there is a good reason for that. There is no computer involvement.

What that means is that this really is an iPad app that only lets you move pieces around a static board. You have to know how to play, there is no option to play against the computer and card games have to involve you seeing each others’ hands in the open.

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Top iPad Game 1- Flight Control HD
Sells for $4.99 from Firemint. Why? It’s the first game available in 3D! You’ll need the cheap paper glasses found at movie theaters but the gaming experience is unreal

Top iPad Game 2 – Call of Duty: World at War Zombies
Sells for $14.99 from Activision Publishing, Inc. Why? While COD is one of the more expensive games at $14.99, it offers the best “console” experience to date on any portable device. Insane!

Top iPad Game 3 – NOVA
Sells for $9.99 from Gameloft. Why? You can’t get any closer to multiplaying, FPS destroying action on a larger portable device. It’s like a portable Xbox 360.

Top iPad Game 4 -  Minigore HD
Sells for $4.99 from Chillingo. Why? If you are huge fans of Minigore like we are, additional levels, characters and HD gameplay on the iPad will have you sold as well.

Top iPad Game 5 – Real Racing HD
Sells for $9.99 from Firemint. Why? Real Racing was a huge success on the iPhone and pushed the boundaries of simulation on the iPhone. You can expect these bars to be pushed further once again, in stunning HD on the iPad.

Top iPad Game 6 – Harbor Master HD
Sells for FREE from Imangi Studios. Why? Harbor Master on the iPhone is an extremely addicting game. Now for the iPad, you can catch additional levels, challenges, multiplaying action, and more. Best of all, the app is FREE!

Top iPad Game 7 – Jelly Car 2
Sells for $2.99 from Walt Disney. Why? The original Jelly Car series on the iPhone is a very fun game for all ages. Now with a larger screen and upgraded jelly-ness, JC2 is sure to provide hours of entertainment for all ages…especially the kids during a long car ride.

Top iPad Game 8 – Labyrinth 2 HD
Sells for $7.99 from Illusion Labs . Why? Puzzle games are fun, especially when you toss physics into the mix. With a level editor to boot, Labyrinth 2 HD is a great sequel title in HD.

Top iPad Game 9 – Asphalt 5
Sells for $6.99 from Gameloft. Why? If you are looking for arcade racing then Asphalt 5 is a good selection. As the 5th title in their series, Gameloft has done it right with gameplay, graphics, and more.

Top iPad Game 10 – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
Sells for $9.99 from Activision Publishing . Why? Re-living your childhood memories from Nintendo 64 couldn’t be any more fun. Now, Activision has made it possible.

The apps found are, for the most part, remakes of popular iPhone games or entirely new games. Here are some of the titles of HD iPad games:
Plants vs. Zombies HD
Worms HD
Ammoin HD
Flight Control HD
Grind HD
Azkend HD
HD Recovery
Labyrinth 2 HD
NBA Hotshot HD
NBA Spin
Numba HD
Sinterra HD
Sparkle HD
Zen Bound 2.

These HD iPad game apps were impossible to install, returning only an error message. Furthermore, they were quickly removed from the iTunes web interface, which further confirms suspicion that these are, indeed, pre-approved iPad apps.

The fact that most of these are (or sound like) games could be a coincidence, but it could also mean that Apple expects gaming to be one of the most important aspects of iPad use, and they plan to come out with a strong offering at launch.

Well, just because an iPhone game is popular doesn’t mean it will look and feel right on the iPad. Here are 10 best free games that would look and play great on the iPad.

Best free iPad games 1 – Space Deadbeef
Despite its obscure title, this is an arcade quality shmup with some outstanding core gameplay mechanics. The iPhone world is waiting excitedly for the developer to expand this into a full, exhilarating shoot-’em-up.

Best free iPad games 2 – Fleet Air Superiority Training
A jet fighter flight sim that rivals anything seen on the PC, and recently went free with the option of in-app purchases for new planes and missions. Intense and complex, but immensely impressive.

Best free iPad games 3 – Skies of Glory
A World War II edition of F.A.S.T., packing in all the intricacies of flying those basic yet highly manoeuvrable aircraft against the German war machine. Also uses in-app purchases, but the core free game has a lot to offer.

Best free iPad games 4 – Eliminate Pro
Since the App Store launched developers have been fighting to deliver the ultimate online multiplayer shooter experience. Although it demands you follow the in-app purchases to get deeply involved, this is a great example of intense online iPhone FPS gaming.

Best free iPad games 5 – SEED
If an old skool, explorative RPG sounds appealing, SEED provides everything you could want from exotic manga artwork to hundreds of characters, missions and skills in a fleshed-out fantasy world.

Best free iPad games 6 – Real Racing GTI
Rather than just give away a Lite version of its astonishingly impressive racing game, Firemint teamed up with Volkswagen to deliver a small, but complete driving game that rivals anything in this App Store genre – including full price games.

Best free iPad games 7 – TouchPets Dogs
The evolution of the cyber pet has never been as complete or entertaining as TouchPets, and is a great way to give someone a pet for Christmas without feeling guilty.

Best free iPad games 8 – Spider: Hornet Smash
Spider is one of the most innovative and popular games on the App Store, and this free arcade spin-off provides all the spills and thrills of the explorative insect games as you spin webs and pounce on hornets.

Best free iPad games 9 – Waterslide Extreme
Although you’d be forgiven for thinking a game branded by a bank would be one big, dreadful advert, this unique racing game proves that a bit of corporate funding can make for some superb freebie gaming.

Best free iPad games 10 – iFarm
Online virtual farming has become a global phenomenon, with millions upon millions of players taking to the digital fields. This free iPhone take on the concept provides plenty of depth and lots of fresh earth for you to be productive in.