The New iPad Retina Display Game Thread!

[Zatius]

Edge and edge extended
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edge/id300896018?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edge-extended/id455112100?mt=8

[Chocolate]

Just got a new iPad the other day. Screen is not able to go as bright as my iPad 2, and it's more yellowish, where my iPad 2 was more blue. But the colors are brilliant, and the smoothness of the resolution is amazing. So overall, I'm pretty stoked.

So... here's my question. Which of these retina-ready games best show off the new ipad screen? I mean games where you can really see a noticeable difference, which maybe even improves gameplay a little (i.e. better visibility of approaching objects, or discernment of objects etc.)?

[fury]

The reason for the change in apparent brightness is that it takes a lot more power to light four smaller pixels to the same effective brightness than it took to light up one. There isn't much they can do to make it brighter without draining battery life even more.

The change in color temperature to a warmer ("yellower") white is something iOS users have been encountering for a long time. My first iPhone in 2007 was bluish, as was my 3GS. I heard people who got the 3G were the first to come across this warmer color temperature. Then my iPhone 4 had that warmer, yellower tone. I stopped noticing after I stopped looking at my old phone. The same thing happened from iPad 2 to 3. My guess is that when they decided to crank up the res, they wanted a more natural color temperature that is ideal for viewing photos, one of the most likely uses of the insane res display. Some study somewhere [citation needed] said it may be easier on the eyes or something. It just may take some getting used to.

Real Racing 2 HD is one of my favorites to show off the retina display. Mainly because it also has 4xAA and thus jaggies are nearly imperceptible.

Even on games that are full retina resolution, if they don't use AA, you can very clearly see jaggies (e.g. CSR racing, Asphalt 6, Sky Gamblers Air Supremacy, Modern Combat 3, or Galaxy On Fire 2 HD). Not that it's ever terrible, mind you. The fact that any of these games run at this kind of resolution, on what is essentially a giant battery with smartphone guts attached to it, is amazing as it is. But I always marvel just a bit more at the games that can get away with AA at that resolution. When you lose the jaggies, you kinda lose yourself in the game experience, kind of like how text fades away into high quality print when you're reading web and email.

[Bouncy1973]

WTF!?

Half of the games mentioned here look awful on the new iPad! Terrible jaggy edges.

Just a few to mention: TowerMadness, Icarus-X, Muffin Knight and all of the Pangea titles, look as bad as they always were. I regret buying every single one of their games.

It's a joke what some people try to pass on as 'retina ready'!

[Bouncy1973]

Originally Posted by killercow

towers n trolls hd just got the retina treatment:
http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/towers-n-trolls-hd/id500387023?mt=8

The characters and towers in game are retina, the rest IS NOT! - That's a lot that isn't!

[Bouncy1973]

Originally Posted by swarmster

LostWinds is now retina!

Sorry, but that's how it should look on an original iPad or iPad 2 - Very poor.

[Bouncy1973]

Originally Posted by mavere

Gesundheit! HD
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gesundheit!-hd/id449509647?mt=8

Now, this is a truly retina ready game. Fantastic!

Well done to the developer.

[Bouncy1973]

Originally Posted by syntheticvoid

GENE EFFECT

just got an update that made the game Universal and included Retina Display support for the new iPad. =oD

The actual game is retina ready, ALL of the rest isn't. Not any splash screen, title, screen buttons... Hell, even the icon isn't retina!

[Bouncy1973]

Originally Posted by killercow

Lock'n'load by chillingo.

A lot on this game is not retina-ready.

Sorry for the numerous posts, but dishonesty makes my blood boil

[zennswill]

This one is great thread here we can search the all Games of ipad.