Jetpack Joyride Review

I played Jetpack Joyride way more than I desired to for review. Halfbrick's newest never-ending runner kept me coming back round after round thanks to its hard, receptive controls, and an tremendously well-thought-out metagame.

If you're anything like me you spent many entirely good hours of your youth playing The Helicopter Game on a variety of flash game portals. Jetpack Joyride is fundamentally The Helicopter Game on uber-steroids. In its place of a helicopter, gamers participate as Halfbrick mascot Barry Steakfries, exercising a stolen mechanism gun jetpack.

You employ said jetpack to stay close over and under lasers, thrilled zappers and fast-moving missiles, all in an effort to flee the home of a sin scientist. Like all never-ending runners, escape is not possible. The merely goal is to grow as far as probable, to scale the Game Center leaderboards.

Maneuvering the jetpack is simple: beating or holding the touch screen fires the guns, exciting Barry into the air; letting go the screen makes him fall. It's easy, but unavoidably so once you get into account Barry's physics. The more you participate Jetpack Joyride,

the more you get a feel for its delicacy. Quill the jetpack, to make sure a nice smooth climb – too much uphill or descending momentum will grasp you off guard, leading to an untimely death.

The center jetpacking action feels exactly right – the controls are very receptive, making sure that accomplished players will place higher scores. But Halfbrick elegantly incorporated the ideal amount of arbitrariness, to stay Joyride piquant.

Players never quite recognize where the subsequently missile will come from, or how the then set of lasers will be configured. It makes slender escapes feel thrilling. Thankfully, Steakfries sporadically commandeers vehicles to aid players on their flee.

Our individual favorites are the Angry Birds send-up "Profit Bird" (it factually leaves a trail of money in its wake up), and the appropriately-named "Passionate Freaking Teleporter."

Joyride's outstanding mission organization is what kept me coming back to for "just one more round." Players always have three present missions to work towards, dragged from a much larger task pool.

They vary from the easy (participate three games) to the difficult (arrive at 500 meters without gathering any coins) to the absolute weird (rub your head on the upper limit for 2000 meters).

As missions are finished players receive original titles for Barry. After reaching the concluding rank, the cycle can be in progress again using a Call of Duty-style prestige system.

Halfbrick has distended Joyride full of extras, keeping the replay worth high. A slot machine after every round doles out bonuses. Inclusive stat tracking lets you dispense over all your performances.

A store enables you to promote Barry with practical (coin magnet!) and not-so-useful (tuxedo!) upgrades. The awareness and heed Halfbrick put in to Joyride is obvious at each turn.

Verdict

Jetpack Joyride is Halfbrick’s most obsessed game yet, exceeding the seminal Fruit Ninja. The semi-random (but still skill-based) jetpack gameplay is refrained to excellence.

Joyride’s bevy of extras offer the jetpacking shenanigans an additional boost of principle, keeping me coming reverse round after round.