Preview: Cash Cow for iPhone

If you enjoy counting cash (guess if i had some i would) and you’ve found Bejeweled pretty addictive, you’ll love Cash Cow, the coin-counting, farm-themed iPhone puzzler with lots more depth to it than meets the eye.

Cash Cow is an addictive coin-counting puzzler for the iPhone and iPod touch based on the popular PC original (downloaded over 1.5 million times so far), but enhanced with a wacky new storyline and the physics-based mode which is actually really cool.

In Cash Cow you work against the clock to help Buck the Cow save his farm from a mercenary moneylender Bankin the Pig. Your goal is simple: Earn enough cash in order to repay your loan. If you’ve ever played Bejeweled, you’ll feel right at home in Cash Cow.

In a nutshell, you earn money by dexterously counting and grouping loose change into larger denominations to amass an ever-increasing pot of cash. You can use the money earned to repay Bankin’s loan or to buy items to rebuild your farm.

The latter is a natural fit for customization freaks due to a long list of farm upgrades at your disposal. For example, you can outfit your farm with stuff like windmills, haystacks, chickens, and over 25 other types of equipment.

You can also buy animals, crops, and decorations. Furthermore, the game allows you to choose colors and set a custom placement for most items.

Additional bonus levels are available between stages and you can choose between five game modes that allow you to play the game from minutes to hours.

Cash Cow enhances its PC counterpart with the new physics mode based on the accelerometer sensor. In this mode, you move your device in order to maneuver realistically-weighted coins around obstacles and into a bucket.

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