[FREE GAME] [iOS] Fish Out of Water by HalfBrick [REVIEW]

Today FREE GAME is the Apple AppStore App of The Week for the 3rd week of June 2014, named Fish Out of Water. A game by Halfbrick Studios.

This review is full of images, so if you are on limited bandwidth and just want to download the game, please find below the link or find another post with the same title but without [REVIEW] tag to it.

The Apple AppStore download link:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fish-out-of-water!/id578467798?mt=8

 

This game can be installed on iOS device with iOS 5 and up, so iPad 1 and iPhone 3GS is technically compatible.

This is the icon looks like on the home screen.

This game is made by Halfbrick, the creator of Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja.








First time playing, you won't see any title screen or main menu, but directly go into the game.
Oscar, the crab, will greet you and give you explanations and later help you with anything from linking to a social media account and join a league.



As the title of this game says, this game is about making the fish out of the water by throwing them.
Don't worry they won't die or injured.
The gameplay is simple. Throw them out of the water and make them to be thrown as far as they can go and as many as they can make skips (jump) so that all the crabs who are judges by the way, can be impressed.
You have to have good combinations of the distance and the skips.


My first score from the judges.


Each judges has different kind of scoring method:
Orange: "Long distance" judge. He will give good score if you can make a long distance throw.
Purple: "Level" judge, which taking account skips, distance and weather.
Blue: "Skips" judge. Gives good score only if you can make many skips/jumps.
Green: "Positive minded" judge. He always give you good score, even when others give you bad/low scores.
Red: "Critical" judge. Critical not only about everything but also critical about other judges. So if other judges give you low score, the red must be giving you even lower.

This game is also have goals to be completed.


Click on the flag button on the bottom right side of the game screen to access the goal.


This game also has stores where you can buy costumes for your fish to help them upgrade their skills.

 

The first costume is free. You can select a combination of red and blue.

For me, I select both red.

Turned out that the red charm costume can add another 75 meters to the distances.
And well, now my score is mostly 8, except for the blue judge, because I didn't really make so many skips.



This game also have another feature: a fish photo album.
Each photos will be unlocked when your surpass the the criteria.
For example, the second photo will only be unlocked, when you reach level 2.


Click on the crab to open the menu.
You can go to the store, see your achievements, join leagues, set the options and get connected with friends.  


This game also has the feature to save the progress across multiple devices so whenever you change your device for whatever reasons, you can still continue your game from where you have left off.
You need to either sign in using facebook or google+ account.

Choose a nickname for your Halfbrick account. Don't worry, you can change it later if turns out you don't like the name.



The league menu.







Well here is the pros and cons:

Pros:
1. fun game especially you can have competitions with your friends.

Cons:
1. The gameplay is too simple for me. Throwing fish just to get highest score. Not really my type of game.

Enjoy!