iPhone Games To Look Forward To In 2010

We're hurtling headlong towards the end of the year and it's time to start getting excited about what 2010 holds in store for iPhone gamers. There are way too many fantastic games coming out to list here, but we have picked ten of the most interesting and amazing looking titles to get you counting down the days till the ticker clicks into double figures. So long 2009, it's been fun, bring on 2010! Also, check out Top 10 iPhone Racing Games for 2009

GTA: Chinatown wars
The announcement of GTA: Chinatown Wars for the iPhone was proof, if ever there were any needed, that the time for debating whether or not the iPhone was a bonafidee handheld console was officially over. Irksomely, the original Q4 2009 release window is perilously close to slipping and with no comment forthcoming from Rockstar, it seems very likely that the title will fall back into 2010. Still, gives us something to look forward to in the new year - here’s hoping Rockstar manages to harness the best of the iPhone’s interface options to make it nice and simple to play. Here's the trailer of the DS version to whet your appetite



Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter
The trailer for this epic looking dino-themed effort doesn’t give much away, but Ukranian developer, Tatem, has revealed that you will be able to sneak up on the cold blooded prehistoric giants, before offing them with one of six different weapons. Presumably those weapons are going to be devastatingly powerful and based on what looks like an open world environment, Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter may well offer something that other developers haven’t dared try yet. Definitely one for meat eaters.



SSX iPhone
After being buried by an avalanche of mediocre imitators, EA’s larger than life snowboarding franchise is well overdue for a comeback. And what better platform than the iPhone to use as a test bed. Not much is known about what sort of form the game will take, but with Shaun White Snow Boarding getting the jump with a release last month, the pace has now been set. The SSX series has always thrived on multiplayer so fingers crossed there will be some decent online modes.

Low Grav Racer 2
An early App Store darling is now set to reappear courtesy of talented Scottish developer, Cobra Mobile. With no release date announced as yet, a 2010 release is pretty much assured. The game has never made any secrets about its love of the excellent Sony Liverpool series, Wipeout, so it will be interesting to see how Cobra Mobile attempts to go head to head with the world’s premier anti-grav racing franchise. We’re expecting more tracks, tarted up visuals, an online mode and maybe even a souped up 3GS version. If you’re reading Cobra Mobile, please, make it so.

Need for Speed: Shift
After the fantastic Need for Speed: Undercover, it’s hard to imagine that the sequel will be anything less than fantastic. Adopting an innovative cockpit view and sporting an updated car roster and HUD, Need for Speed: Shift could well dominate the racing genre on the App Store from early in the new year. Though still thoroughly of the pick up and play variety, Shift is positioning itself as more of a sim type driving experience than its predecessor, so petrol heads can get elbow deep in tuning options between races. There are head to head online races mooted too - the only thing we don’t like is that it isn’t out now.