Rabid Gophers is an entertaining collection of three reaction based mini-games complete with two modes. The main campaign mode involves all three challenges simply one after each other; you get three rounds of progressively increasing difficulty in which you have to survive for a minute in each round trying to beat the gophers at their own game, whereas the survival mode lets you choose a game that you like and keeps increasing the difficulty until you eventually get beaten; saving your best time as a high score in your OpenFeint profile.

There’s a simple whack-a-mole variant, a taxing “Simon Says” style memory test and a more complicated sniping mini-game that uses one finger for reticle control and the other to fire a shot at the pests as they pop up from the holes in the earth. And unless you’ve never picked up a gaming device you’ll have probably played these type of games at least once; they are perfectly fine but shallow both in gameplay depth and replay value.

With that said, the value in Rabid Gophers is in its execution which stands head and shoulders above the inevitable cruft on the App Store. Not only do you get a really good looking (and sounding) game but the campaign even has a beautifully executed series of cut scenes that make the experience a much more compelling one. We’d say that this release is in all a good one to get if you like these types of mini-games—it even includes a trial version of the developer’s other game, Starball—but it won’t last you long once you pass the brief campaign mode.

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