Zombies vs. Sheep is a mildly amusing game in which you have to shoot down paper cutout zombies, bats and other strange creatures - that are handed to you on a silver platter. Hanging down from the top of your iPhone's screen, your job is to blast them away all the while that you avoid flaming skulls, and collect golden coins to spend in the shop.

The upgrades include faster movement, more life slots, more ammunition slots, and dynamite can also be purchased at a whim. Upgrading movement should be on the priority list, as it helps to obtain more gold - it is of course crippled when you begin the game. So too is the ammunition - all too often you'll see 'shake to reload' flash up onto the screen, and while you can tap the top left corner instead, it feels like a cheap way to instill difficulty into the game. Happily, on occasion you will be granted access to a machine gun that uses a targeting reticle.

At first, you'll blast through the early waves with gleeful abandon, but it's only when the screen becomes fuller with zombie targets that the game's problems will rear their ugly head. Simply put, the controls seem to become inadequate once you've mowed down a good number of zombies - indeed, there's many games out there that have great accelerometer control. This is not one of them.

At first, you'll blast through the early waves with gleeful abandon

The reason that Zombies vs. Sheep doesn't impress us is not it's sluggish controls or slow-to-start headaches (or what's known as a gentle learning curve), it's because of it's generic tap-shooter play. It's not the kind of game we'd come to expect from a studio that, by it's own tagline, is about music. People looking for a game akin to Radio Flare are going to be disappointed, and for the casual gamers, there's many other simple games that have much more flair and sparkle than this one.

The laid back music doesn't really add much to proceedings, although we liked the graphical style of the game. It's a reasonable effort but we can find much better games for the same price on the App Store.

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