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ANDROID
Jetpack Joyride
This popular iOS running game is now on Android, with mission-driven
progression and character customisation providing hours of gameplay
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VERDICT
With heaps of
gadgets, utilities and
new outfits to buy,
Jetpack Joyride is
the game you’ll think
you’ve completed but
keep on playing
OVERALL SCORE
REQUIREMENTS
Android 2.2 or later;
30MB storage
Halfbrick Studios’ popular iOS running game Jetpack Joyride has finally made
its way to Google Play. Mission-driven progression and a range of crazy
gadgets, jetpacks, vehicles, achievements and character customisation add replay
value to the simple controls and repetitive nature of this endless journey.
Unlike other games of its type, in which you must run, and run, and run, until
eventually you die, Barry Steakfries is able to use a jetpack to fly over zappers
and bullets, and to help him collect coins scattered throughout the game.
Vehicles are accessible at certain points within the game, including our
personal favourite, the fire-breathing dragon affectionately known as Mr Cuddles.
Spin tokens are collected where available, which can be used in a fruit machine
at the end of the game to win such things as an extra life, coins, free spins and a
range of small- to large blasts that add to that all-important distance figure.
You simply tap the screen to jump, or tap and hold to fly; gravity sorts you out
when it’s time to head back down to earth. The need to use just a single finger
or thumb makes Jetpack Joyride simple to play wherever you are, even with only
one hand. Given that a game this simple could quickly become boring, Halfbrick
Studios has a number of tricks up its sleeve to help keep things fresh.
First up are challenges. Three missions are offered at a time, which you take as
long to complete as you need. This is handy: although some, such as high-fiving 15
scientists, involve no more than brushing past them, others are more tricky, and
have you diving into death’s path to score near-misses with missiles and zappers.
We enjoyed completing the challenges, but very quickly completed the game.
However, once you’ve completed Jetpack Joyride you can start over, and in doing
so win the ‘A man, my son’ achievement. There are plenty of other achievements to
unlock, including ‘Crackling’, in which you must blow up a flying pig with a missile.
Hang on a minute, a flying pig? This is one of the many, many gadgets on which
you can spend the coins you collect.
Jetpack Joyride REVIEWS
“Jetpack
Joyride is
simple to
play wherever
you are, even
with only a
single hand”
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