Game review: Bumpy road (iPhone, iPad)

Rating: ★★★★☆

Bumpy Road is a beautiful, story driven “driving” game where you don’t get to control the car. The idea is simple – the car slowly rolls towards the right side, and you can influence the movement by making “bumps” in the road itself – i.e. moving the terrain with your finger. It even has a story, which for casual games is a novelty, and it’s so sweet and heartwarming that it actually encourages you to play more and more. It’s a love story wrapped in a driving game with no driving, in which nothing can actually kill you, you can just have a dive in shallow water and stop. You need to collect various elements for the ride, like screws, plugs, lightbulbs, gears, batteries, radios and more. It’s not that you really need them, but they’re a nice bonus to add up to your highscore and are fun to collect.

That type of games is a rarity – both the graphics are amazingly beautiful, the music is at times addicting, and the gameplay and controls are top notch. It shows that guys from Simogo are not a one hit wonder (they released “Kosmo Spin” before), and they will surprise us even more in the future, with their enigmatic “game 3″ that they’re working on. I definitely recommend to try it. It’s not for fast-paced arcade shooter gamers, but if you crave something “different” then it’s definitely going to be the thing for you. That type of quality at ?2 is quite rare in the app store.

Download it at: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bumpy-road/id423855879?mt=8

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