Stick to the view finder of the shotgun, throw up clay pigeons and shoot them down. You have 12 live cartridges in your shotgun. Can you take down 12 clay pigeons? You need to have steady hands to hold your iPhone/iPod touch, fast tapping and sliding fingers to fire or adjust. This is the world of iShotgun Skeet Shooting, you cannot be weak or slow. 

iShotgun is a skeet shooting game for the iPhone and iPod touch. You have to flung clay pigeons and shoot them down before they go out of sight. There is a neat view finder with which you have to capture your flying target and tap on the Fire button to shoot. Your eyes gotta be fast and your fingers have to co-ordinate with your shooting instincts. The clay pigeons are in no way slow. 

You have to find your target using the iPhone accelerometer. Here, you need to master the art of tilting the device if you want to be the iShotgun champion. 

You have two options to launch the clay pigeons, the first one is just to yell “pull” into your device’s microphone and the second one, which is more manual is to tap on the Pull button provided at the right bottom of your device. Either of the options can be set in the game’s Settings page. 

The sound effect is as near and perfect as real time shooting. There is some sense of accomplishment if you are able to take down twelve clay pigeons with the 12 default cartridges you have in a single load. But, this is not very possible in a stretch, I should say. You basically have to restrain from shooting if you know that the target is way too far or is too late to shoot. Of course, you can reload the shotgun anytime by simply jerking your iPhone up and down. You’ve reloaded another 12 rounds to move ahead. Oh, this can go on forever. 

There are three levels of difficulty, Easy, Medium and Difficult. Start with the Easy one to get the hang of the tilting and tapping position and frequency. 

Pros and cons:

I find the game very engaging mainly because of the innovative sound detection mechanism used for launching the clay pigeons. However, one disappointment is that the barrel of the gun and the image are fixed. It would be more fun if the barrel also moves to wherever the view finder is when I tilt my iPhone to take down the targets.

• App Name: iShotgun- Skeet Shooting
• Price: Free
• App Category: Games
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• Developer: Yossi Malki