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The tilt invasion has begun! A new flood of intriguing puzzlers has started to appear on the iTunes App Store all which use the apple portable’s tilt functions in interesting ways. Hands down the most charming of these puzzlers is Dizzy Bee by Igloo Games.

As Dizzy the bee, you have use the tilt functionality of the the iPhone/iPod Touch to save your fruit friends and collect all of the flowers all while avoiding the various baddies in each level. The levels progress from simplistic wooden maze styled levels without enemies to start all the way to diabolical mazes involving multiple keys and dangers.

Get all the flowers and your fruit to the goal, and you'll get a great score

Your end of level score is based upon the speedy collection of all of the flowers in the level, the keeping all of your fruit friends alive, and finally getting everyone to the level’s exit at the same time. Based on how you do, you’ll be awarded a bronze, silver, gold medal. If you complete the level perfectly you’ll be given a “Gold Crown” award which will promote the replay of levels you didn’t quite get perfect. The more golds you win through the game’s 40 regular levels, the more of the game’s 5 bonus levels you’ll unlock.

Every object in the game responds to your tilts with an impressive physics system. Different enemies will have more or less mass meaning that they will travel faster or slower then you will, and each type of fruit will behave that way as well. Add locks, keys and floating flowers to the mix and you’ll be tearing your hair out when you make one wrong tilt resulting in your fruit buddies getting squashed. It can get maddening, but the payoff is great when you finally get a perfect gold crown after replaying a level multiple ways to finally beat it.

That big baddie will travel faster then you due to it's HUGE size

The game has a bit of a dead zone when your iPhone/iPod Touch is nearly flat which will bring a pop-up informing you of that fact. Sometimes this dead zone caused me to overtilt causing death. This would be the only glaring issue with the otherwise perfect control. Hopefully this is not in fact a limitation of the device, and that Igloo could look into this dead spot for future versions of the application.

At $2.99 Dizzy Bee is definitely one of the better values on the App Store. The game utilizes the technology in the iPhone/iPod Touch so well and looks so good that it’s quite hard to believe the low price point! Do yourself a favour and pick this title up, you’ll be glad that you did

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Also, a free five level demo is available on the app store for those curious but not enough to spend the $2.99 on the full application.

Note: My phone crashed while working on this review, taking all my saved games with me. As I unlock them again I’ll be updating the image gallery with some of the more insane levels.