

The more stars you collect in a particular level, the more bonus points you earn toward other features, such as super powers you can use to assist you with your strategy. With each piece of candy you feed the monsters, you collect stars, the equivalent to points. As players progress, they encounter more and more obstacles, such as bombs and bubbles that will send candy flying and floating away, or chains that you must slice with a blade. Swipe to the left or right to cut the rope and watch as candy falls into their wide-open mouths. At each stage, pieces of candy hang from ropes while Om Nom and one of his ravenous relatives wait, hungry for their tantalizing treat. This is a puzzle game and one that gets progressively more difficult as users complete each level.

In this newer version, players not only have to find candy to feed Om Nom, they also have to do so for his relatives. At least, that's what ZeptoLab, the makers of the popular game "Cut the Rope" are saying with a new game they launched earlier this month, "Cut The Rope: Time Travel." The newest incarnation of this game takes the well-loved premise of "Cut the Rope," originally released in 2010, and adds new characters and levels based on eras in history, such as the Middle Ages or Ancient Egypt. He also has deep curiosity about his family roots.

App Name: Cut the Rope: Time Travel Price: $.99 (iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android), $2.99 (iPad) Available Platforms: iOS, Android, and Nook What does this app do?: Om Nom is a hungry monster with an insatiable sweet tooth.
