可能有人没想到，App Store榜单的新晋冠军居然又是鸟类，但这次是不会飞的鸟——南极企鹅。这款名为《Air Penguin》的游戏，打败了《糖果小怪物》、《翼飞冲天》、所有版本的《愤怒的小鸟》，并一举登上了榜首。

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它是一款倾斜控制游戏，但与《涂鸦跳跃》有所不同，它有两个玩法轴线，玩家的任务就是通过前后左右四个方向倾斜控制手机，引导小企鹅在各个冰块之间完成弹跳、翻筋斗、滑动、短暂起飞行等动作。但如果一招不慎，小企鹅跌入水中，游戏就会结束。在这个过程中，玩家会遇到多种难度不断增加的挑战，例如面积太小、难以着陆的小冰块，或者已经濒于破裂而无法着陆的冰块，不时从水中蹿出的箭鱼，以及恐怖的鲨鱼等。

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当然，小企鹅并不会被这些困难吓倒，玩家可以借助骑海龟、收集鱼类等活动闯过难关。玩家搜集的鱼类（也可以通过购买获得）可以兑换成特殊的升级功能，有些鱼可支持玩家将小企鹅从溺水中解救出来，有些鱼则可用于瞬间“冻结”鲨鱼，以免它们加害于小企鹅。

总而言之，这款游戏趣味十足，令人爱不释手，而且售价也是容易让人产生消费冲动的99美分。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Don’t be alarmed, but birds are taking over. Tiny birds, angry birds, and now flightless Antarctic birds. If only Alfred Hitchcock were alive to see this.

The latest fowl to fly to the top of the App Store charts? Penguins–specifically, Air Penguin, which currently holds the No. 1 spot. It’s ahead of Cut the Rope, ahead of Tiny Wings, and even ahead of all three Angry Birds games (including the recently updated-for-Easter Angry Birds Seasons).

Why all the fuss? At first I wasn’t quite sure. Air Penguin is a pretty straightforward tilt-control game–not unlike Doodle Jump, but putting two axes into play instead of just one. It’s your job to guide your bouncing, somersaulting, sliding, occasionally flying penguin from one ice floe to the next, tilting your iDevice left, right, forward, and backward to steer him. One bad landing and you plop into the water; game over.

Along the way you’ll encounter increasingly difficult obstacles: smaller ice floes that are harder to land on, floes that are already cracked (and therefore can’t be landed on), jumping swordfish, and, of course, sharks (which leap out of the water in a suitably fearsome fashion).

Fortunately, there’s help along the way as well: turtles to ride, fish to collect, whale blow-holes to land on (for a quick jump-boost), and so on.

The fish you collect (or purchase in-game) can be exchanged for special power-ups. One of them gives you a one-time rescue from the water; another temporarily “disables” the sharks.

Air Penguin is fun, no doubt about it. Addictive, too, pushing all the right “just one more time” buttons. I can’t say it’s captured my attention the way, say, Tiny Wings did (or even Cover Orange), but it’s definitely a nice diversion–and an easy impulse buy at 99 cents.（source:cnet）