Direct Link : Girders
Publisher : Smart Mobile Games

Price : $14.95

Rating : 9 out of 10

If you want a game that sounds as interesting as watching paint dry, then Girders is your game. However all is not as it seems. Yes building bridges and towers, doesn’t sound too enticing at first, but from the opening level it just sucks you in.

Now I’m no architect, but I know that one of the strongest shapes is a triangle, especially in building, so off I go throwing in as many triangles into my bridge, as I can, but that only gets you so far.

The first level gives you 7 girders to span 30 metres. Pretty easy stuff, and quite possible with 2 girders. However each completed level gives you a breakdown of how well your bridge performs, maximum stress; minimum stress; average stress and fatalities. You can go back to all levels later to increase the performance of your bridge and improve your bridges score.

As the difficulty level progresses, the length of the required bridge increases (as does the amount of girders offered) and the terrain on which you get to build your bridge gets rougher. Should your bridge succumb to your inadequacies then you get to watch your poor passengers become shark food in the river below.

In addition to building bridges, there is also another mode of play where you get to build towers of predefined height. This provides similar gameplay, but with a number of different hazards including wind and earthquakes (in later levels). Now let me tell you building towers is a lot more difficult than building bridges.

As your bridges and towers are tested, you can see the weak areas as these flash red, to let your know the areas that need attention. You can keep tweaking your bridge or tower as much as you like, but you can only proceed to the next once the level has been completed.

Conclusion : Yes this isn’t your normal run of the mill game, but wow, what a doozie. The graphics are adequate for the purpose, the physics engine spot on. As well as 20 levels of bridge building, there are 10 levels of tower building, so there’s a ton of variety . This is one of those games, that you must try, especially if you like a game that challenges your mind. Isambard Kingdom Brunel eat your heart out.