The sound effects are great, but the music isn't very inspiring. Each level looks gorgeous, and the enemy characters and animations are nice to look at, as are the backgrounds and explosions. Pangea knows how to squeeze good graphics out the iPhone. Turning off Wi-Fi can help, but always having to reboot your device before playing to clear memory is just annoying. It's also frustrating to almost complete a level and have the game suddenly crash. Frustration is compounded by not having any sort of auto-save except at the end of stages, so if you have to get back to real life in the middle of a level, you're up a creek. The eggs are very small, so pay close attention. Without any icons to indicate where the eggs are (there can be up to 28), you could be flying around for an hour trying to find some of them. The onboard map is useless for spotting eggs, too. If you miss or drop an egg, you have to circle around and try to grab it again while playing bumper cars with the scenery. There is a neutral button to stabilize yourself, but with trees, branches and cannons everywhere, it's just too easy to repeatedly bump into things. I didn't like almost always being in motion. Even with the extra speed, though, flying seems a bit sluggish. Thrust increases your flight speed, which is good for getting out of tight spots in a hurry. Replenish it by seeking out shield icons. Flying into objects kills you instantly, but you do have a temporary shield to protect against incoming fire. You have just three lives per level, but extra live icons are hidden in each stage. Sometimes my fire button would get stuck and when I picked up an icon, it would fire all of the shots automatically. A default sonic scream is available if you run out of other weapons. Frag grenades, bombs, and heat-seeking missiles compliment your arsenal. You start with only twenty shots of your blaster weapon, but you can pick up other weapons by flying into icons scattered throughout the level. You have numerous weapons at your disposal. So, once you have an egg, you better fly to the nearest wormhole so the egg is banked. It does drop them if you're hit by laser fire or other dinos, or if you scrape along the ground. Just fly over the eggs and your Nanosaur automatically picks them up. Enemy dinosaurs such as raptors and brontosauruses try to stop you from collecting the egg. You blast your way through three levels: Forest, Desert and Swamp. Set in the future, you play a lone Nanosaur sent on a mission to retrieve stolen Nanosaur eggs and guarantee the survival of your species. And it's Nanosaur 2, an cool idea that just isn't executed very well, comes up empty. But nobody hits the jackpot every on pull. Pangea Software has enjoyed a string of iPhone hits lately with Bugdom 2, Billy Frontier and Cro-Mag Rally.

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