Overview
Hangman RSS is a brand new game from Finger Arts who brought us Guess the News. Hangman RSS has a similar premise where you guess real time news headlines, but this time with Hangman style. We gave you a sneak peek, and now it’s time for the in-depth review.
Hangman RSS gets top news headlines every time you enter the app, and then you try to guess the missing words. Each word gives you the entire alphabet to guess from rather than each missing word in the headline filling in with the letter you guess. After you guess the news, you can then read it inside the app.
Features
Hangman RSS has four difficulties with each one increasing the number of words to guess in the headlines, and less of the story excerpt. You need to guess a certain number of headlines in a row to unlock the next difficulty. Every letter guess is just a tap away, and you have seven wrong guesses until you’re hung.
After finishing any article in the game, you can then read it in the in-game page viewer, or in safari. One hint per missing word is included which gives you the next missing letter. OpenFeint 2.4 is included with high scores for the runs for each of the difficulties as well as high scores. Over 40 achievements are included as well.
The Good
Hangman RSS is a great word game just like Guess the News, but it’s even better. It’s just such a different experience to not just read the news, but to play it. You can figure out the headlines if you know the news, and you can find out the headlines if you know the words.
The hangman style is truly exceptional as the game changes every time rather than guessing old words and phrases like every other hangman game out there. Every word in the headline gives you a whole new alphabet to guess from, so you need to be careful with only seven mistakes.
As you guess the missing letters the entire headline comes into focus, and you can decipher it. Every story has a little excerpt from the story which can give you some hints. On others you just guess the popular letters like e, t, r, s, and a to slowly reveal the headline. Every game is just easier to relate to with actual current news to guess.
The interface is extremely smooth and streamlined, and has high production values just like Guess the News. It’s great to see the letters fly up into the words, and point values, and words popping out. The game has sound effects for each letter guessed, as well as finished words, and completed headlines.
Hangman RSS will always give you a different game since the news always changes. Headlines will never repeat giving nearly infinite replayability. On top of that OpenFeint is included with five high score tables, and over 40 achievements. The game also saves your run progress, so if you leave in the middle of an article on your run of four you come back with a new article continuing the run of four.
The Bad
The only problem is that it has a similar premise to Guess the News. That really isn’t a problem since that’s a great premise to share, and it’s different enough to stand on its own.
The Verdict
Hangman RSS is the best hangman game in the App Store, one of the best word games, and one of the best news apps, all for the intro price of $0.99. It’s great to guess the news headlines, and then read the accompanying story as well. The production values are top notch, and there is nearly infinite replayability with always changing headlines, and added OpenFeint.
Hangman RSS is perfect for the iPhone, and everyone should own it. Even when the price increases to $1.99 it’s still a must buy.
***To win a copy of Hangman RSS just leave a comment or retweet this post. Deadline is tonight 1/16 at 11:59 PM PST. Please include a valid e-mail address in comments, and follow us on twitter so we can send you the code. US itunes only. Good Luck.
Our Rating
Hangman RSS
- Developer: Finger Arts
- Category: Games
- Released: January 23rd, 2010
(currently 1.0.0)
(currently 0.99)
Thanks very the very good review! Im a news junkie and I love word games what more could I ask for.
an iTunes link would be immensely helpful. shouldn’t they be a part of every article, herr?
thanks for the chance to win!
I cant wait to try this game it looks really cool!
Thanks for the good review it REALLY want to try this game~
Thanks to the DEV and AppAdvice for such a great site! I would love a chance to try this game.
$0.99? Really? I might try it for free, but probably not.
I really like hangman, and with RSS it makes it even more interesting! Good that it comes with OpenFeint.
hangman with real news?
looks like a lot of fun
An awesome idea. Would be funny to have this game pull words/phrases from text messages, too!
Ooh that looks like it could be a cool app!
This looks like a lot of fun. The fact that you can read the articles is a nice bonus.
Cool game! Good luck to everybody and thanks to dev. for the promo code!
I would love to have this app! I’ve tried several other hangman games, but this looks better than all of them.
I read news all the time, this would make my day x10 more interesting!
I hope you mean the deadline is 1/26 not 1/16. This game seems fun.
Hey, the concept of the game looks great! It will have maximum re playability since news never gets old. Do let me in on this contest!
Hi Trevor,
We are honored and thrilled to hear that you enjoy Hangman RSS! A big thumb up means a lot to us! We know your fans trust your reviews
Many Thanks,
Isabella & The Finger Arts Team
Congratulations to our winner
Shawn D
Have Fun!
-Trevor