Touchgrind BMX

Touchgrind BMX is the perfect storm of gameplay, visuals and features that make those without an iDevice green with envy; whether you play it for casual fun or try to conquer its hardcore challenges, you're guaranteed to spend a lot of time with this game.

Has enough in that expertly-pitched control system to keep you replaying the same courses over and over, relaxing into a groove before smashing through the score barrier on one perfect run. It's an iPhone game you'll come back to for the controls alone – and that's not something you can't say every day.

The spiritual successor to Touchgrind (the skateboarding game), BMX utilizes simple finger gestures and ramp-laden courses to provide ample opportunity to show off some insane tricks and rack up megascores.

A nifty little time-waster with some very impressive graphics (and the game runs beautifully on a 3G, for a change!).

Touchgrind BMX is both frustrating for its unforgiving mechanics and rewarding when you finally get the tricks done right: in any case, it's definitely not the pick-up-and-play game you'd expect to find on an iPhone.

Touchgrind BMX does improve on the series for the most part, but in other areas, such as the lack of free roam, it seems to be taking a big step back. As it stands now it will delight and frustrate gamers in equal measure.

Sadly, however, Touchgrind BMX is a game that, though clearly designed for touchscreen controls, is simply too big for iPhone's boots. It's hard to escape the feeling that play is made up of a series of compromises, and for a game with such big ambitions, that's a trick no-one was looking to see pulled off.