Guinness World Records: The Video Game is a collection of 36 mini-games that challenge players to beat the Guinness World Record holder. Players can attempt to beat their state world record holder or the regional record holder, which makes attaining the records a bit more manageable.  Players can also try and beat their own records because the top three scores on any event are saved.

Guinness World Records: The Video Game puts players in a 3D world and has them run around the globe to each event. Each event center has three competitions to choose from. The first competition is always the free competition and the next two competitions cost money to play. Players attain money by competing in the free record challenges. Players will win money just for playing, so you do not have to beat the record to attain money. The more records you attempt to break the more money you can make.

The games are all different and the controls can be different. One of the challenges is to beat the video game world record. Players have to play a game similar to Astroids. Players are in a ship and shoot other ships by taping on the enemy ship. Double tapping the screen will cause your ship to move around the screen and away from enemies. The touch controls make the game a bit more challenging if you are a person that likes to “button mash”. If you “button mash” on the touch screen, you end up flying all over the place and usually into the enemy. The enemies are moving towards you and if you are randomly clicking the screen chances are you will miss the enemy and double click on open space causing your ship to move.

Another challenge requires you to throw a refrigerator as far as you can. This game requires a few different touching techniques to control. Players have to rub there fingers back and forth to get the character to run. Players need to stop running before the throw line and tap the screen to bring up the angle meter. Once the angle meter is on the screen, players tap the angle meter when it reaches the desired angle. This doesn’t seem too difficult, but all this is happening in a mater of seconds.

All of the mini-games are very different. Players will not get bored of playing the same type of event over and over with different graphics. Some of the challenges took a little time to load on the iPod Touch and one of the games was too difficult to play on the iPod Touch because it was not keeping up. There weren’t many games that had this issue, though.

Over all the game is fun to play and adds the addictive nature of trying to beat records. Some of the records seemed impossible to attain, but they are not. It just takes a little effort and practice and players will be able to attain the state or even regional record. If you are driven by competition or like mini-games, check out Guinness World Records: The Video Game for the iPhone or iPod Touch.

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