First Look: UNO for iPhone

If you've ever played UNO before, then you know how addicting it can be. You can now enjoy that same UNO [iTunes link] experience on your iPhone anywhere, which makes it much more addicting. Gameloft, creators of many other iPhone and iPod games, has really outdone itself on this game for the iPhone.

UNO gives you many different ways to play. When you press Quick Play, you are able to choose your difficulty level, and instantly begin playing against a computer player. Single player allows you to enter either Tournament mode, or Custom mode. In custom mode, you can choose the difficulty, game type, scoring type, penalties, draw type, force play, UNO 7-0, and jump in.

One of my most favorite parts of this game is the multiplayer abilities. There are three options: over Wi-Fi, on one device, or online. With Wi-Fi multiplayer, you can play someone with another iPhone on the same Wi-Fi access point -- you can either create or join an existing room. With one device multiplayer, you can have up to 4 people play on the same iPhone ... this is my least favored way to play UNO because others might catch a glimse of your cards (although cards are not shown until the specified player touches the screen). With online multiplayer, you can create and join a room for others around the world to play along with you.

I wish I could rotate the screen and use online multiplayer over EDGE or 3G. With that being said, UNO is an awesome application for on-the-go playing, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes to play card games. You can purchase UNO for iPhone/iPod touch from the iTunes App Store for $7.99.

First Look: UNO for iPhone

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Qurapcamp

Uno online Internet game is a fake. My brother & I each went online (itouch) to Internet multiplayer and joined the same room. On my screen it showed him as the winner, I told him congratulations and he showed me that his itouch still showed the game in progress. I watched MY username continue playing the game! Not Cool!

January 08 2009 at 10:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

vandil

How about doing more reviews of free apps?

While it is nice to hear about an exceptional paid app, most of the ones posted seem to be fluff like Uno.

December 09 2008 at 3:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Patriks7

Or you can just go to a store, buy a set of cards for much less, find an ACTUAL (read: real) friend, or friends, and play with him/her/them..

December 08 2008 at 3:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kit Cowan

Should it really be more than a physical product?

Uno Playing Cards @ Amazon.com $4.99
Uno Game @ App Store $7.99

Looks good but I'll have to wait for it to go on sale.

December 07 2008 at 9:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Olly

I'm going to jump on the 'addictive' bandwagon. 'Addicting' is not a word.

December 07 2008 at 2:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Frank

Wow, I'm glad I didn't buy UNO when I was tempted to. Not being able to play over 3G is a huge no-no. I hate how some applications limit their use to WiFi only. What's the point of getting data-plans if you can't use the data.

December 07 2008 at 1:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sven

Way too expensive. I have "Uno, Uno Freefall and Skip-Bo" as a Nintendo DS cartridge. Very nice games, totally low-budged price and real fun! If this collection makes it to the iPhone, I will most likely buy it.

December 07 2008 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mark

Sounds like another classic game loft applicaton: buggy as hell and over priced.

December 07 2008 at 12:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JGuest

While reading this (and looking back at this kids other posts) all I could think of was eighth grade portfolio pieces. How did someone with such awful grammar and sentence structure become a writer here? ::Sigh::

December 07 2008 at 11:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tim

The actual card game is $5.00 in stores. Considering multi-play is Wi-Fi only, you might as well just save yourself the $8.00 and play with the card set. Jeez!

December 07 2008 at 11:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply