Percepto - Breaking the Z axis

Percepto is a new, interesting gem in the app store. It's featured by Apple this week, and carries with it a new iteration of an often-seen concept in iOS games (Shift, Gravity Guy) - game field manipulation.

The game is a 2D puzzle that involves sliding a character across a room into a door. The interesting part comes in when you tap the room into 3D mode, allowing you to flip it and re-tap it into 2D to move around obstacles.

While it's certainly an interesting concept, I wish I could call the game wildly entertaining, but... it just isn't. New mechanics are few and far between, keeping the gameplay largely repetitive throughout the game. While the shine of the 3D/2D switch will keep most people enthralled for the first few minutes, after that, it becomes a struggle to stay positive.

The game does have a certain OCD factor, as it records time spent and moves spent, but that's the only real incentive to play the game. In my opinion, a game doesn't warrant being a paid app if the only thing it has going for it is its gimmick.

Get it if you're bored and a puzzle maniac - otherwise, avoid this app.