Your car, when you drive like me, gets damaged! The more damage you get, the lower your top speed is and the idea is to complete all the stages of the rally without completely killing your car. You can turn off the ‘damage’ but then any fastest times and records etc are not saved however this would make it more child-friendly as a game.

The graphics are very slick, the retina screen of the iPhone 4 makes a huge difference when developers go to the effort of adding support for it. On first play you can have pop up hints explaining how to do things which can be useful but on the first course there are 3 or 4 points where the game is interrupted to tell you how to change the view for the car, or to explain that the red/green bars mean! It took a few races to get used to the game and the best techniques for steering but thankfully after the course is complete you can either ‘accept’ your time or race that course again. If you choose to ‘race again’ and you actually get a slower time then your faster one is lost – it’s a risk you have to take…

During the race the bars on the left show each part of the course and at each checkpoint these then become colour coded red or green depending on how your time compares to the other competitors. You also have your damage shown at the top left of the screen.  After every 2 races you get the chance to repair your car. You can either let the app do it automatically or you can play a mini-game to stand a chance of getting a better, faster repair. The mini-games are quite fun and a nice break from driving; the first is a skill game to hit a button at the right time, the second is a mini puzzle to join up 2 lines and I’m yet to see the third!

The difficulty seems spot on; it’s not too easy that you can win every race and complete the game straight away but also, it’s not so hard that you simply don’t want to play it. I came 2nd in my first rally, which I’m pretty happy with and it also gave me a new car.

As well as the normal rally mode the game has 2 extra modes: Adrenaline and Time Trial. Time Trial is self-explanatory really (try get the fastest time on a course). Adrenaline has you trying to finish the course within a set time limit and with as little damage as possible to your car. On both these modes you can control the weather conditions.

At the moment this is an iPhone/iPod only app and priced at $4.99/€3,49/£2.99 however it will soon be updated to be a Universal app (for both iPad and iPhone/iPod) when the price will rise to $6.99/€5,49/£3.99 – so if you want it for your iPad then grab it now and wait for the free update!

Rally Master Pro is a good game, it has some good features such as the mini-games and some very varied tracks. It’s difficulty level is just about right and leaves you wanting to keep playing to beat your last time.

Well all credit to Firemint then for Fast & Furious. Despite the film tie-in this is actually a very good game.

I admit I would normally have avoided this, the title alone would have put me off but having already sampled another of Firemint’s games, FlightControl which proved superb I thought it worth a play.

And so the adage, ‘never judge a book by its cover’ is as valid here as it ever was. Released by I-Play but authored by Firemint, Fast&Furious is a superbly implemented and eminently playable game. Making excellent use of the iPhone motion sensors for steering allows you to control the cars as you would if you had a full analogue steering wheel.

The game offers you quick racing action in any of the numerous types of racing including road, drift, drag and GPS and there is also a story mode which presumably follows the film? (I haven’t seen it).

But possibly best of all is the WiFi and Online Multiplayer action. Play against your mates via a local wiFi link or play Online against other Fast&Furious players across the globe.

Firemint have utilised the Cloudcell technology first seen in FlightControl to track your scores and allow you to play Online and this works well.

Although some of the story mode games can be frustrating, overall the racing is superb and possibly the best implemented driving game I have played to date.  With the multiplayer options adding another level of gameplay I would urge all fans of driving games to turn the ignition key on this game to ON.