Ultimate Hangman HD

CUSTOMER REVIEW



In this one-or-two player twist on the classic, you try to guess the word before losing the game as expected. What makes this different are the different themes such as paper, Chillin' Chalkboard, Christmas Snowman, and Flower Power. There are dozens of word lists in several languages, making this even more enjoyable for multilingual and non-English players; the word-list dictionaries in the app are huge, and should challenge any player. The scoring is odd, and I'd like to see a score based on the number of words modified by a difficulty rating, but that's asking too much in an app that offers a lot of replayability for 99-cents.



PROS:

+ 1 or 2 Player

+ Custom Word Lists

+ Replayability

+ Multiple Languages

+ Thousands of words

+ Challenging

+ Music

+ Graphics

+ Fun Themes



CONS:

- Scoring is not well implemented

- Needs ability to look up any word

- Forces Landscape (not that big of a deal)



There are four themes, including a Christmas theme. My favorite is the default 'paper' theme, followed by the Flower Power theme. The animation is different for each theme, as well as each game inside each theme. Interestingly, the object gradually loses pieces instead of pieces being added as in the traditional hangman in the Flower Power and the Christmas Snowman themes. The regular 'paper' hangman offers humorous sketches; the dev clearly wants you to be entertained while playing.



The music is sometimes very good, and other times just good. There are so many different songs, though, that there is little repetition and almost no annoyance. In fact, I've let it continue playing as I write this so I could enjoy the music!



Regarding the Internet Access permission, beside the (unfortunately) ubiquitous Facebook and Twitter buttons, this app actually has a valuable use for the internet access permission: it allows you to look up the words you failed to guess on the internet using one or more of 5 different dictionary sources. Hopefully, the developer will add that ability to every word instead of just the one you miss. Without other permissions, this can't sent much info home, so I'm not going to worry about it - especially since I can simply block the access without impacting the core of the game; I just can't look up the words online nor can I use the Facebook or Twitter (I don't use them anyway) but the game will function normally otherwise.



Hope this helps,

Robert~



[EDIT: Not sure why, but this review doesn't show I purchased the game, but in fact I got it as the Free App of the Day. Must be a server or database issue.]