Playman Power Games is a simple collection of four Olympic-style sporting events. The game is colorful and moves well. Controlling the events is a timing-based endeavor, but the timing is supereasy to grasp, so most players will be done with these four events in an hour or less.
Cycling is a bike race against the clock. You watch a meter and press the 4 and 6 keys at different points on the meter. If your timing is on point, the bike speeds up. If you miss a press, the bike slows down. The shot put event uses a similar circular meter to govern the distance you throw a shot put. You'll press the 4 key twice on a meter, then throw by pressing the 6 key when the meter lines up properly. The weightlifting event challenges you to hold up a set of weights for as long as possible. You'll do this by balancing a line on a meter. Wall climbing is probably the least interesting of the events. You'll just have to line up an arrow with the next grab point on a wall in order to ascend more quickly than you would by just doing nothing.
The four events of Power Games can be played over and over again in a practice mode, taken one at a time in a single event mode, or taken as a whole in the tournament mode. You can play with up to 10 players by passing the phone around, and the game keeps high-score tables for each event as well as the tournament. Unfortunately, there isn't any sort of global leaderboard to let you compare your times and scores against other players, though the developer, Mr. Goodliving, is planning to roll out a new version of the game with high score support in the future. But currently, the game has a pretty limited appeal, and the lack of external competition limits it even further.
Graphically, Playman Power Games is bright and colorful. The characters are well animated, and the game moves at a quick and smooth speed. However, you're never going to notice any of that while you're playing, because you'll be too busy focusing on the meters. There is a music track that plays between events and a few limited sound effects that play during an event. It's not much, but it works fairly well.
Overall, Playman Power Games' four events are fun, but they're a little too easy to master. Additional events would have broken up the monotony a bit, and an online scoreboard would give players something to strive for. Without those additions, though, the four events of Power Games aren't deep enough to maintain your interest for longer than an hour. Your download dollars can be better spent elsewhere.
