Crash Zone – New York racing app for iPhone and iPad

Reckon you can drive? Well enough to cut it on the streets of Noo York, Noo York, buddy? Face it, negotiating your way around the Big Apple is a one-way trip into madness and mayhem thats exempt from the normal rules of road conduct. As the sirens blare, the chopper blades whirl overhead and the lights change, the cabbies leaning on their horns seem to be saying, Cmon, buddy, the lights aint gettin any greener.

Now, from SunCat Software, the trusted brand that took iPUBQUIZ into the top ten on Apples iTunes Games/Trivia category, comes Crash Zone, a driving game set on the mean streets of the Big Apple that perfectly captures the frenetic pace of New York street life, where simply going about your business is an exercise in self-preservation.

Set on a lights-free intersection in downtown – or is it uptown or midtown? – New York, Crash Zone is a high-paced, one-player game of skill complete with cop cars, ambulances and distracting helicopters. Its your job to get each vehicle safely across the intersection.

You can tap a car, ambulance or cop car to make it stop or start, or swipe it to make it burn some rubber. Youll score points for each vehicle you safely shepherd across the intersection – hundred for a car, 200 for services vehicles and 300 for taxis.

Crash Zone comes complete with sound effects that include screeching tyres, emergency-services sirens and, of course, the sickening sound of metal on metal that tells you its game over. No matter. Crash Zone automatically uploads your score to the global high-score leaderboard. Once youve checked that out, you can load up with gasoline, fire up your engines, and get back out on to those mean streets.

Playing Crash Zone is simple and intuitive and the graphics are amazing. Its perfect for whiling away time on the train or during a lunch break. So load up your iPhone and transport yourself to New York for ten minutes. And if the authentic street sounds are just a little too authentic, you can always play in silent mode.

So, thats a phone-full of New York-style fun that you can play on your own, yet compete against thousands of others on the online leaderboard. You even get to crash a yellow cab without bending any metal. Whats not to love?

You bout that, then? As they say around here.