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fanwar3's Extreme Road Trip 2 (iPd)
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I played this new game on the app store today and it was called Extreme Road Trip 2. It is the second iteration of the original Extreme Road Trip. It is a side-scrolling and an endless runner game. Moreover, I found this game addicting once I started playing it. In other words, I cannot put my iPhone down while I play this game. To be honest, this game often looks very elementary for those who have not played it before. On the contrary, once you play it, you will discover that this game consists of complex game play that will need all your wits to survive.
With the gas pedal stuck, you have one option of jumping, rolling, and doing stunts to continue rolling on in the game. As you travel farther distances, your level bar increases, making you get to another level. When you get to another level, you get to break those two crates, which hold a limited amount of power-ups. Once you lose these power ups, you have to spend 100-400 coins to use one of these power-ups. When you start the game, what you have to know is that you are running on a limited supply of gas and from the beginning, the aim of the game is to make it to the furthest distance possible on your limited supply of gas. But you can get more gas by picking up the red gas barrels along the way. Stunts are not quite complicated to perform but are hard to novice players. Well, stunts help to save on your limited gas supply. How? This is because when you perform stunts, you are given the turbo boosts for extreme road trip and as a result, you will not use your gas supply for sometimes. The stunts that can be performed in the game are long jumps, hangs, flips, and so on. According to Game Center Acheivements, I have done handfree landing, double flip, triple flip, quadruple flip, quintuple flip, infinite loop(I did six flips in a jump to get this), and I once did 12 stunts in a jump. This game is fast-paced, so if you do a stunt that lands your car upside down, your car explodes and the game is over. You have to be able to land as perfectly as you can to progress through the game. Even if your car is a little titled off the wheels perpendicular to where you are trying to land, the game will end. Sometimes, you will hit mines and that is a good thing. It is a good thing because you will have the oppourtunity to perform as many stunts and complicated as you can make it. If you hit one of the balloons in the sky, you get more coins. The coins will allow you to buy cars and use power-ups each time you play the game. There is pretty good inventory in the game. As for the missions, many of them are straightforward, and some of them are tricky to accomplish. The pretty tricky missions ask you to do a perfect slam landing, slam while upside down, and other tricky stunts that I can’t really do. Starightforward missions will ask me to crash at 300-400m, do 10 flips in a jump, do a perfect landing, and the like. As for the music, it is reminiscent of most 8-bit games. The music is so addicting too.
As for balance, the game seems okay except for some things. Sometimes, I can land upside down for some time and not die. After I hit a mine, the car jumps at high altitudes and my car will sometimes spin out of control to the point I can’t make it land perfectly as quickly as possible. I run out of gas quickly so, there needs to be gas barrels in the air or something like that since most of the time, I am in the air. There should be a way to sell cars in the game in order to get more coins, since the car I got was not as fast as I thought it would be. There are too many hills and cliffs and they are disadvantages because when my car is traveling fast in the air, it is hard to predict where the car will land and if I land a car a certain way on a certain hill or cliff, I can die. Otherwise, this was one of the games I found interesting.
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fanwar3's Extreme Road Trip 2 (iPd)
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GameLog started on: Saturday 3 November, 2012
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I played this new game on the app store today and it was called Extreme Road Trip 2. It is the second iteration of the original Extreme Road Trip. It is a side-scrolling and an endless runner game. Moreover, I found this game addicting once I started playing it. In other words, I cannot put my iPhone down while I play this game. To be honest, this game often looks very elementary for those who have not played it before. On the contrary, once you play it, you will discover that this game consists of complex game play that will need all your wits to survive.
With the gas pedal stuck, you have one option of jumping, rolling, and doing stunts to continue rolling on in the game. As you travel farther distances, your level bar increases, making you get to another level. When you get to another level, you get to break those two crates, which hold a limited amount of power-ups. Once you lose these power ups, you have to spend 100-400 coins to use one of these power-ups. When you start the game, what you have to know is that you are running on a limited supply of gas and from the beginning, the aim of the game is to make it to the furthest distance possible on your limited supply of gas. But you can get more gas by picking up the red gas barrels along the way. Stunts are not quite complicated to perform but are hard to novice players. Well, stunts help to save on your limited gas supply. How? This is because when you perform stunts, you are given the turbo boosts for extreme road trip and as a result, you will not use your gas supply for sometimes. The stunts that can be performed in the game are long jumps, hangs, flips, and so on. According to Game Center Acheivements, I have done handfree landing, double flip, triple flip, quadruple flip, quintuple flip, infinite loop(I did six flips in a jump to get this), and I once did 12 stunts in a jump. This game is fast-paced, so if you do a stunt that lands your car upside down, your car explodes and the game is over. You have to be able to land as perfectly as you can to progress through the game. Even if your car is a little titled off the wheels perpendicular to where you are trying to land, the game will end. Sometimes, you will hit mines and that is a good thing. It is a good thing because you will have the oppourtunity to perform as many stunts and complicated as you can make it. If you hit one of the balloons in the sky, you get more coins. The coins will allow you to buy cars and use power-ups each time you play the game. There is pretty good inventory in the game. As for the missions, many of them are straightforward, and some of them are tricky to accomplish. The pretty tricky missions ask you to do a perfect slam landing, slam while upside down, and other tricky stunts that I can’t really do. Starightforward missions will ask me to crash at 300-400m, do 10 flips in a jump, do a perfect landing, and the like. As for the music, it is reminiscent of most 8-bit games. The music is so addicting too.
As for balance, the game seems okay except for some things. Sometimes, I can land upside down for some time and not die. After I hit a mine, the car jumps at high altitudes and my car will sometimes spin out of control to the point I can’t make it land perfectly as quickly as possible. I run out of gas quickly so, there needs to be gas barrels in the air or something like that since most of the time, I am in the air. There should be a way to sell cars in the game in order to get more coins, since the car I got was not as fast as I thought it would be. There are too many hills and cliffs and they are disadvantages because when my car is traveling fast in the air, it is hard to predict where the car will land and if I land a car a certain way on a certain hill or cliff, I can die. Otherwise, this was one of the games I found interesting.
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