This Week’s Must-Have iOS Games: Mad Skills Motocross, Road Blaster, Run Like Hell & More!

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This week’s must-have iOS games features a motocross game that turns a fan-favorite genre on its head and delivers a side-scrolling racer that claims to be like no other game you’ll find in the App Store. Discover what players of the desktop version of Mad Skills Motocross have enjoyed for years.

Sheeple Chase is a loveable little racing game in which your aim is to guide a cute little sheep to victory against his farmyard friends. Enjoy a multi-colored visual feast as you race through the various worlds in a bid to obtain all of the winners cups, while picking up as many juicy apples as you can on the way.

Fans of run-as-far-as-you-can games will love Run Like Hell, the frantically-paced platform game that will have you running, jumping, sliding, climbing and crawling your way to safety as you try to outrun the spear-throwing tribesman.

Find out more about the applications above and check out the rest of this week’s must-have iOS games, including Road Blaster and The Blocks Cometh after the break!

Mad Skills Motocross($1.99) Universal – Games

You’ll need to master wheelies, stoppies, nitro, rocket boosts, backflips, front flips, and more to in this unparalleled side-scrolling motocross racer. Mad Skills Motocross finally brings the desktop version of this 2D motocross classic to iOS, featuring a whopping 52 tracks with various difficult levels, and career and time attack game modes. Send “ghosts” of your best races to your friends for them to race against, and race against their “ghosts” via the OpenFeint network, or just share your victories on Facebook & Twitter for your friends to beat.

Sheeple Chase($0.99) iPhone – Games

Take control of a loveable little sheep and guide him to victory in a frantic race against his farmyard friends. Race through a stack of crazy course that are jam-packed with jumps, speed-ups, and a wealth of farmyard obstacles to get in your way. Avoid cows, tractors, rivers, hay-bales, barns, and chickens. Enjoy a multi-colored cartoon feast as you race through the various worlds in a bid to earn the winners cups. When you’ve mastered all of the tracks that are included, you can use the track editor to create your own and share them with your friends. Featuring Game Centre and the Crystal game network that let you compete for the highest score worldwide.

Run Like Hell!(Free) iPhone – Games

Stuck on a godforsaken island it seems as though things can’t get any worse, until the native tribesman decide to eat you for their lunch. Run Like Hell from the from the crazy cannibals in this frantic and fast-paced platformer. Dash through ruins, along night time jungle trails, and along sun-kissed beaches, running, jumping, sliding, climbing and crawling to avoid the variety of obstacles that will get in your way. You’ll need quick and nimble fingers to avoid being spit roasted by the tribesman. Featuring a story mode with dozens of levels, mini games, comic cut scenes, and more.

Road Blaster($0.99) iPhone – Games

They killed your wife and trashed your town, now it’s time to make them pay. Road Blaster puts you behind the wheel in a Mad Max-style demolition driving game, controlling the actions of a lone vigilante out for revenge. This Japanese anime cult classic arcade game of yesteryear is back as you’ve never seen it before on iOS, featuring a brand new tilt control system. This adrenaline fuelled racer is like no other racing game you’ll find in the App Store, and promises to deliver an “edge of your seat roller-coaster ride of a game unlike anything else.”

The Blocks Cometh($0.99) iPhone – Games

Help a ninja survive an avalanche of falling blocks and continually climb ever higher to escape the dreadful Monster of the Deep. Jump, climb, smash, and escape the mountain building up beneath you before you’re crushed to pieces. This fast-paced retro action game features supercool 8-bit pixel art, eye-popping cartoon graphics and beautiful multi-layered backdrops. See how high you can climb for your best highscore, then share it with your friends over Facebook and Twitter, or compete in the online leaderboards via OpenFeint and Game Centre.

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