Zombie Games and Weather Apps, two crowded fields in the Windows Phone Store

Three categories of Windows Phone titles come to mind as having the strongest presence in the Windows Telephone Store; Zombie games, Weather apps, and Photography apps.  These groups seem to multiply faster than bunnies or flashlight apps.  Fortunately, while some may run across these categories as over saturated, it'south crowded with quality titles.  Which is never a bad matter.

In this week's Windows Phone Central Roundup, we focus on two of these categories, Zombies and Weather titles (we'll pick on the photography apps on downward the road).  The Zombie titles in the roundup are some of our favorite titles that have been covered through the years.  The weather apps aren't heavyweight apps like the Weather Channel or Accuweather but they exercise a good task of keeping u.s.a. up to appointment with what Mother Nature has in store.

Atmospheric condition Apps

Weather View (free): Weather View is one of those weather apps you lot beloved or you hate.  Don't get me wrong, Weather View is a sharp looking conditions app but it's bare boned approach may not be everyone's cup of tea.

Atmospheric condition View's Ten day, Three day and I Day forecast pages

The master pages for Conditions View embrace:

• A ten day forecast folio with each day split up into morning, afternoon and evening forecasts.  The forecast information is very brief with a weather icon illustrating the conditions and the expected temperature.
• A settings page where y'all tin can view your favorite locations, view forecasts for all your locations at once, view the About folio and admission the app'southward settings.
• The Group View presents the x day forecast for each location, swiping left/right betwixt the locations.
• A three day forecast page that, over again, breaks things down into morning, afternoon and evening forecasts.  Forecast information is a little more than detailed covering the forecasted temperature, wind speed/direction, precipitation levels, air pressure and general experience.
• A ane day forecast that breaks things down every three hours detailing the forecasted temperature, rain fall and current of air speed.

Atmospheric condition View's Settings

Settings for Weather View are where you tin can add locations to your favorite places' listing and sort the order of the locations.  The get-go location is where Weather condition View will open up upwards to and you can switch locations from the settings page off the main view.  Boosted settings include:

General: Hither is where you ready your language, temperature units, and units of measurement.  You tin also gear up your start-up view and choose which forecast pages y'all would like to view.  Therefore, if you exercise non need the ten 24-hour interval forecast, you can uncheck the Long Forecast box and it will be removed from view.

Alive Tile: Atmospheric condition View has Alive Tile support and here is where you can turn that feature on or off and choose a few brandish options such as displaying the forecast city'south proper noun on the Live Tile and turn off the backside of the tile.

Background: Weather View has ten background images you tin can choose from or if you prefer, get with your bones black background.

I volition admit that I like how you can eliminate some of the repetition by removing some of the main forecast pages.  Weather condition View does lack any radar maps or weather alerts merely does a decent chore at being a basic atmospheric condition forecast app.

Weather View is a free app that is available for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.ten devices.  You find your copy of Weather View hither in the Windows Phone Store.

Bing Conditions (gratuitous): I'll admit information technology.  Bing Weather is one of my favorite Windows Phone weather condition apps.  It presents you with a good for you level of weather information in a very bonny package.

The main pages covers the current conditions and forecast for the twenty-four hours, a ten day forecast, an hourly forecast, a map page filled with weather maps and radar images, and your locations folio.  You can pull upward a detailed forecast from the ten day forecast page that will intermission the forecast downward into day and evening portions.  I as well found that some locations will have a Ski forecast page.

Bing Weather condition'southward Master Pages

Settings are accessible from upwards nether the three-dot menu and cover the basics.  You can choose your units of measurements, which location y'all want Bing Conditions to become to upon launch, plough on/off your Windows Telephone location services, Live Tiles and minimize data usage by but updating the forecast information when you are on Wi-Fi.

Bing Weather does have Live Tile and lockscreen support.  Live Tile back up offers all 3 sizes of tiles and may very well have the best wide tile background images around.  Bing Weather also offers weather alerts off the Live Tile and main page of the app.

Bing Weather's Ski Forecast and App Settings

The merely downside to Bing Conditions is the inability to use your ain images equally the lockscreen wallpaper.  If Microsoft ever gives Bing Weather condition this characteristic, it may very well replace Amazing Weather HD as my get to weather app.

Bing Weather is a gratis weather condition app and is bachelor for Windows Phone 8.  You lot can observe your re-create of Bing Weather condition hither in the Windows Phone Store.

Weather Menstruum (trial/$1.99):  Weather condition Flow has been around our Windows Phones for some time now and is one of the prettiest weather apps out at that place.  Information technology presents everything in a bit of a minimalistic mode with merely two page views but flourishes with a wide assortment of Live Tile and lockscreen options.

Weather condition Menstruation'southward Rich and Metro Themes

The principal page for Weather Flow tin be toggled between two themes, a Metro Styled view or an blithe view.  While you lot tin set the theme in Weather condition Flow's settings yous can besides switch the views by swiping up or down on the main folio.

The Metro Mode theme has your current weather at the summit half of the screen, an hourly breakdown just below that and a five twenty-four hours forecast running along the bottom of the screen.

The animated or Rich theme has an animated atmospheric condition scene moving along in the background.  Your current conditions are displayed at the top of the screen with the daily and hourly forecasts lining the bottom of the screen. To switch between your forecast locations, regardless of the theme, just swipe left or correct.  Your wood urban center's name volition be displayed at the far tiptop of the screen.

Weather Catamenia'south Settings

Up under the three-dot card you will find controls to pin a location to your Offset Screen, refresh the conditions data, and access the app's settings.  Setting for Weather condition Flow includes:

• Locations: Here is where you add or remove your forecast locations.  Yous do have the selection to have your current location listed every bit a forecast city or manually enter the location by proper noun.
• Display: This settings folio covers your theme upon launch, choosing between a light or night Metro style, turning on/off location services, choosing a time format, and your atmospheric condition data refresh rate.
• Live Tiles: Weather Menses supports all three sizes of Live Tiles with options to get with a Metro or Rich groundwork and five different display options.​
• Lockscreen: Besides as Alive Tile support, Weather condition Flow also offers you lockscreen support.  You take the pick to use a weather image, Bing wallpaper, a custom epitome from your Pictures Hub or shuffle images from your Pictures Hub every bit the background.  Additionally there are 3 lockscreen layout options so y'all tin cull how much or how petty atmospheric condition content is displayed.

While Weather Catamenia may not have radar images or weather alerts, it does offer an attractive way to apace glance at the weather condition forecast from the app, the Live Tile or the lockscreen.

Weather Flow does have a trial version and is available for both Windows Phone viii and 7.x devices.  You can find Atmospheric condition Catamenia here in the Windows Phone Store.

Weather To Go (trial/$.99): This is the beginning opportunity to tinker with Weather To Go.  It comes across as a fairly bones weather app, much forth the lines of Weather View.  I tin meet Weather condition To Go appealing to some merely coming beyond equally too basic for others.

Weather To Get's Forecast, Map and Weather Warning Pages

The main page for Weather To Become displays a five day forecast with your current weather condition.  If yous have more than than one forecast location added to Weather To Go, each city will have a forecast folio.  Just swipe left or right to move among the forecast cities.

The forecast information is fairly basic offering the expected temperature, current of air, and precipitation levels along with an icon illustrating the atmospheric condition.  If you view the principal pages in horizontal view, the forecast expands to include humidity levels, sunrise/sunset times and moon phase.

If you demand more detail on a item day, just tap the date while in portrait view to pull upwards an hourly forecast for that date.  Yous can as well view a meteogram that will chart the weather condition forecast for that engagement.

Forth the bottom of the page are four control buttons that allow you to add together cities to your forecast locations, remove the currently viewed location, open upwardly a map view, and access the app'south settings.

The map view has options to go to your current location and brandish weather flags for the major cities on the map.  The conditions flags will toggle betwixt forecasted temperatures and wind/rain forecasts.  You also have the option to toggle between four map styles.

Weather To Go's Settings

Pulling up the three-dot menu reveals options to refresh the weather data, show the actual temperature, view any weather warnings, toggle the forecast location name (Habitation, Work or bodily location name) and view the about screen.

Settings for Weather condition To Get covers:

• Live Tile Settings:  The Live Tile volition display either the current conditions or forecast for today along with options for icon fashion, number of forecast days to display and the details included on the Live Tile.​
• Lockscreen: Options are like to the Live Tile settings and embrace what information you desire to display for the electric current date, how many forecast days to display and the details included on the lockscreen overlay.
• Schedule: Here is where you set your refresh rate and turn on/off the Sleep Mode.  The Sleep Mode will pause updated during a set fourth dimension period.  Set the Sleep Mode for when yous're asleep to save a piffling information usage.
• Background: Weather To Go has xx-seven images you lot can choose from as your app background.  Additionally, you tin can pull up Bing Wallpapers, cull your own image from your Pictures Hub, a conditions image that matches current weather or randomize your background prototype.

While Weather To Get has a little meat on the bone, it lacks atmospheric condition radar.  You practice have atmospheric condition alerts but lacks notifications that there is an alarm present.  Atmospheric condition To Go isn't a bad option to consider if yous are looking for a basic weather app but information technology may exist too basic for some.

Weather condition To Go has a trial version and is bachelor for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.10 devices.  The total version is currently running $.99 and y'all can find Weather To Go here in the Windows Phone Shop.

Zombie Games

Dredd vs. Zombies (free): Dredd vs. Zombies is a Windows Phone eight game that puts you in the shoes of the comic book hero Approximate Dredd.  You are tasked with protecting Mega-City Ane from a zombie invasion.  Dredd vs. Zombies has fantastic graphic quality and is a fun arcade game to pass the fourth dimension with.

Dredd vs. Zombies Gaming Modes

The game has iii gaming modes; Story, Arenas, and PSI.  The Story fashion has you traveling through the urban center, level by level, wiping out any Zombies you stumble upon.  Thirty levels, spread out across three episodes are included in the Story mode and are progressively unlocked.  The Arenas mode is where you take on endless hordes of Zombies to run into how long you lot can survive.  Then you have the PSI manner where you visit the future to prevent crimes from happening.

Game play is fairly consistent regardless of the fashion you choice in that you get to smash Zombies into the netherworld.  While your main weapon is the Lawgiver pistol y'all also become to choose from a small collection of arms and armor to aid you survive the Zombie onslaught.

Dredd vs. Zombies

The game screen for Dredd vs. Zombies has your vital statistics in the upper left corner of the screen with your score just below.  Whatsoever bonus items you may take will be displayed in the summit centre of the screen.  Move controls rest in the bottom left corner and burn controls in the bottom right corner.  Just above the burn down control button y'all'll see your ammunition count and a reload push button.  While aiming is fairly automatic with Gauge Dredd, reloading is not.  If you get defenseless with your weapon dry, the Zombies will seize the opportunity and start munching on the Judge's brains.

As you lot defeat the Zombies and progress through the game, you earn credits that can exist used to upgrade weapons, armor and purchase special equipment/bonus items.  If you demand a jump on upgrades, y'all can buy coins through in-app purchase or if you tin't wait to unlock all the levels in the Story way, an in-app purchase is as well bachelor to unlock all levels.

Dredd vs. Zombies for Windows 8

The movement joystick takes a fiddling time to get used to but overall, Dredd vs. Zombies is an excellent shoot 'em up, action game.  Graphics are peak notch, every bit is the animations and game play challenging enough to keep things interesting.

Dredd vs. Zombies is a costless game for Windows Phone 8 and yous can pick your re-create up here in the Windows Phone Store.  If you are looking for a picayune more elbowroom for your Zombie anything, Dredd vs. Zombies is too bachelor for Windows 8 devices.  You lot tin find your free copy of Dredd vs. Zombies for Windows 8 here in the Windows Store.

Zombies Tin can't Jump (trial/$ane.99):  Zombies Can't Spring is more of a casual game for Windows Phone 8 than what you observe with Dredd vs. Zombies.  The defensive game takes reward of a little known weakness with Zombies.  They can't jump.

You play the role of a father and daughter who run out of gas in a Zombie infested neck of the woods.  To survive, the game's characters volition build crates to stand upon, out of the deadly reach of the Zombies.  Every bit the Zombies advance on your location, your characters will open burn on the Zombies in hopes of keeping them at bay.  Should the Zombies reach your location, they'll begin to destroy your crated bringing the players closer to having their brains eaten.

Zombies Can't Jump Game Screen

Zombies Tin't Jump has 2 gaming modes; Story and Survival.  The Story way has xx levels of play that progressively get more difficult.  The Survival style has two survival challenges where yous must outlast endless waves of Zombies.  The game has a pocket-sized choice of weapons to arm yourself with and a few defensive items to slow the Zombies down a little.  The farther you progress in the game, the more items become available.

Zombies Can't Bound Tutorial

Then there's the Survival Rage mode that appears periodically (aroused face icon) that volition speed up your crate building skills and converts your weapons into Uzi sub-machine guns that mow downwardly the Zombies rather nicely.  The Survival Rage mode volition only last a few seconds but gives your characters a fighting adventure of survival.

Zombies Can't Jump is a fairly challenging game with quality, drawing graphics.  Its main weak bespeak is the short supply of levels in the Story mode.  The levels are re-playable and the developer has added achievements which helps the game'southward staying power.   All things considered, Zombies Can't Jump is a fun game worth trying.

There is a trial mode available for Zombies Can't Leap with the full version running $1.99.  It is available for Windows Phone 8 and y'all can find Zombies Tin't Spring here in the Windows Phone Store.

Care to do battle with the Zombies on the big screen?  Zombies Tin't Jump is also available for Windows 8 that is running $1.99 (trial version available).  Yous can find Zombies Can't Leap hither in the Windows Store.

BBB: App-ocalypse (gratuitous):  BBB: App-ocalypse is a classic Windows Phone game that is the sequel to another popular Zombie game, ByeByeBrain.  The ByeByeBrain serial of Windows Phone games are tower defense games on steroids where you must defend your city against moving ridge after wave of zombie hordes.

BBB: App-ocalypse Game Setup Screen

BBB: App-ocalypse has 3 areas of your urban center to defend, iii difficulty levels, and ii game modes (story and endless).  The endless mode is simply that, an countless supply of Zombies you lot have to defeat.  The story mode has you defending against fix waves of Zombies.  Regardless of the mode, if twenty Zombies get in past your defenses and past the gates to your fortress, the game is over.

Game play is simple.  Position your defenders to take out the wave of undead and forestall them from crossing the screen and advancing on your stronghold.Your defenders include a Frat Male child (the Spanker) armed with a paddle, a Fast Food Clerk (the Colonel) armed with a bucket of fried craven, a Police Officer (the Fuzz) with gun, a chain-smoking lady (the Cleaner) armed with a cigarette and aerosol can, and a scientist (the Nerd) who has an electricity infatuation.  Each character tin can exist upgraded and has their own unique skill set.

BBB: App-ocalypse Game Screen

The Spanker uses touch weapons (paddles, axes, etc.), the Colonel tosses out craven legs to deadening down the Zombies (they manifestly tin't resist fried chicken), the Fuzz uses firearms, the Cleaner torches the Zombies and the Nerd electrocutes them.  On summit of all that, you tin rotate your Windows Phone 180 degrees and join in on the action.

BBB: App-ocalypse Rooftop Vantage Point

You are positioned on the rooftop higher up what would be the gate to your fortress.  While your defenders are busy bashing the Zombies you tin take them out with everything from a handgun to a Gatling gun.

As you take out the Zombies, y'all will earn cash that tin can be used to buy additional defenders, upgrade existing defenders or visit the Game Store to upgrade your weapon.

BBB: App-ocalypse Shop

The game has fantastic graphics that let you zoom in or out of the activity and tilting your Windows Phone changes your vantage indicate.  You can lay the Windows Phone apartment for an overhead view or hold it upright for more of a 3D perspective.

BBB: App-ocalypse is a one of the more enjoyable Zombie games available for our Windows Phones.  The slower pace of a belfry defense game may not entreatment to anybody but if you go bored flip your Windows Telephone effectually and join in on the activity.

BBB: App-ocalypse is available for Windows Phone eight and vii.ten devices.  It is a free game and you can notice BBB: App-ocalypse hither in the Windows Phone Store.

Zombies!!! (trial/$3.99): Zombies!!! beginning hit the Windows Phone Store dorsum in the days of Windows Telephone 7 and the Zune Marketplace.  It originally striking the shelves as an Xbox Windows Phone title and would de-listed from the Store only to render as an independent title.  Oddly, the Windows 8 version of Zombies!!! is still available as an Xbox title.  Regardless, independent title or Xbox, Zombies!!! is a fun game to pass the fourth dimension with.

Zombies!!! is based on the lath game that shares the aforementioned proper name.  Game play follows board game play very closely.  The object of the game is to safely work your way through the city to a heliport where you tin escape the Zombie invasion.

Zombies!!! Game Setup

Zombies!!! supports upwards to 5 players (y'all and four man or computer players) and characters can exist customized.  You have 4 game styles to cull from that includes:

• Standard Game that follows the board game rules.
• Quick Play that follows the official rules but the helipad is closer.
• Generated Town is a style where the city is in full view.  In the Standard Game, the city is generated as you progress through it.
• Survival Horror is a style described equally "Merely yous versus a boondocks full of Zombies.  Can y'all survive?"

Once you jump into the game, a curl of the dice determines movement and the outcome of whatever battles you enter against Zombies.   At the end of each plow, if you survive, you will earn an Issue Menu that can be turned in for bonus moves/attributes.  Tutorials pop-up windows will appear equally you lot first begin game play and at that place is an extensive help section available from the Zombies!!! main menu.

Zombies!!! Game Screen

While Zombies!!! game play follows the board game very closely, and so does the game footstep, which might entreatment to everyone.  Zombies!!! is a prissy choice if you're looking for a strategy game that y'all can laissez passer longer $.25 of time with.  If yous only accept fourth dimension for a few minutes of Zombie slaying activity, your game progress can be saved.  As far as a multi-role player, pass-and-play game is concerned, the Windows eight version played from a tablet might be the meliorate choice.

Zombies!!! is available for both Windows Phone 8 and seven.x devices.  In that location is a trial version available with the full version running $three.99.  You tin pick upwards Zombies!!! here in the Windows Phone Store.  The Windows 8, Xbox version of Zombies!!! also has a trial version with the full version running $4.99 and you lot tin can find it here at the Windows Store.

Overall Impressions

With regards to weather condition apps for our Windows Phones at that place are plenty to choose from.  They range from the comprehensive offerings such as Accuweather to the minimal choices such every bit Just Atmospheric condition. Of the four conditions apps in our roundup, I lean towards Bing Weather for its clean layout, balanced information and appealing looks (it just needs custom lockscreen images).  However, that does not hateful the other three apps are chop liver.  Atmospheric condition Period is an bonny, reliable app to get a glimpse at what the weather is like.  Conditions View and Weather To Get accept their off-white share of appeal too.

The Zombie genre of games seems to fall in line with its subject matter.  They never seem to die.  Luckily we keep seeing quality, entertaining games from this genre announced in the Windows Telephone Store.Each of the four games in this week'due south roundup approaches taking out the undead from dissimilar angles, each with its own style of entertainment.  Judge Dredd has outstanding graphics and is a fiddling more action packed, while Zombies Can't Jump is a fine choice for shorter gaming sessions.

Zombies!!! is an highly-seasoned board game that is well suited for longer gaming sessions or pass-and-play games amongst friends.  BBB: App-ocalypse is a fun tower defense game with RPG elements and fifty-fifty an opportunity for y'all to spring into the action.  Truth be told, in that location may non exist a bad choice in the bunch.

And that tin be said of both the Zombie genre games and conditions apps in the Windows Phone Store.  Sure, there are going to be duds ingather upward from time to time only with plenty of choices available, in that location are plenty of quality apps and games to consider.  Some may fence there are too many but tin yous have too many?  The large choice gives u.s.a. choices.  We all dance to a different drummer at times and having choices helps make our Windows Phones our own.

Let us know in the comments beneath which weather app or Zombie game is your favorite.

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