Raging Thunder (iTunes Link) from Polarbit is a racing game, which was developed by the same team that made Crash Bandicoot for the iPhone/iPod Touch. You can find an instruction manual here.

First my ratings (based on Game Version 1.0):
Game Type: Racing
Graphics: 4/5
Sound: 2/5
Can listen to your own music: No
Gameplay: 4/5
Learning curve: Medium
Price: US$ 7.99

Features:

• Multiplayer over Wi-Fi (not via Internet), with up to four players. RIght now I have nobody around to test this with so lets stick with the single player mode.
• 4 fictious cars
• 2 stearing modes, either by accellometer or by touch-screen.
• Different game modi, e.g. Arcade, Career

Gameplay

The controls for this game work quite well: It's an arcade racer, so no need to brake. Accelleration is also automatic, so you just need to concentrate on steering and from time to time you need to boost.

While driving you can pickup some extras:

• Lightnings which allow you to boost
• Skulls will reduce your boost
  
• Money (career mode only) will allow you to buy some extras or new cars
  

I found the computer opponents quite challenging, when you make some driving mistakes you will for sure end up in last place. Once you get used to the controls it get's better but winning is still not guaranteed.

Framerate is fluent and graphics are quite nice and colorful, but pop-ups (buildinge appear out of no-where) are very frequent. This doesn't harm the gameplay, but pop-ups have mostly disappeared from racing games on consoles like Xbox360, so you need to get used to that.

The race tracks are quite OK, so I found they lack some variety in color or location, but overall a quite decent game for a fair price.

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