I love physics based games.  I guess the love for building things or figuring out how things work can be traced back to all the time spent with Tinker Toys as a child (building a hammer to beat my brother over the head with) and even stealing my own kid’s Legos to build things.  When physics based games first came to the PC I can remember spending hours and hours playing The Incredible Machine.  Now, with the processor speed and graphics capabilities (and accelerometer) of the iPhone, I can keep games like these in my pocket and play them whenever I want.

The latest of this genre that I have installed and spent time with is FunkyBall Worlds.  Unlike games like Ragdoll Blaster, Enigmo, or Crazy Machines, three entirely different kinds of physics based games in that same genre, FunkyBall Worlds utilizes the accelerometer as well as touch controls of the iPhone to control a ball and try to get it from one end of the level to the other. Along the way you “jump” the ball from one floating platform to another, all of them at different levels, angles, and sometimes even moving.  If that weren’t difficult enough, the levels get more and more difficult by adding things such as mortars, mines, lasers, and even worse.  You are not only playing against the clock but try to collect additional points by collecting stars along the way.  The final scores are not only available within the game but, like many other Astraware games, can be posted online and compared to your friends scores utilizing Open Feint.

The graphics in the game are just what you would expect from anything Astraware releases and that is absolutely beautiful.  The things that impressed me the most about the game is the ease in which you control the game as well as the fact that, after playing just a few levels, you begin to get addicted to it to the point that I can’t even put it down while trying to watch the NASCAR race in Atlanta.

FunkyBall Worlds comes with three different worlds with 24 levels per world. If you want to take it for a test drive, there is a Lite version which gives you a good taste by providing the same three worlds with but only 3-4 levels in each.  FunkyBall Worlds is available in iTunes for $2.99.  If you want to check out a YouTube video of the game, you can watch it here.