Snowball Runner – Review
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By: Snowball Runner
Version #: 1.0
Date Released: 2008-12-13
Developer: Eric Chung
Price: 0.99
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The first time I opened Snowball Runner, it greeted me with a friendly warning. It told me that my phone is running low on memory and that I should reboot "for the best possible gaming experience." OK, I thought. So I pressed and held down the Sleep and Home button and spent a full minute staring at a silver, partly-bitten apple and a dead pixel to its left while my phone is restarting. Then I opened the app again, successfully this time.
So I played the game, tilting my phone to control where my snowball is going as it rolls down a never-ending slope. Nice landscape and background music, by the way. My snowball gets bigger as it takes in more snow, no surprise there, but I intend to make it even bigger by absorbing the animals who happen to be passing by. Aside from the cute penguins, puppies and polar bears, I can also run over snowmen and Santa Clauses. And you can’t have Santa without his presents lying around, can you? The green ones super-size my ball and the gold ones make it invincible. Wait, invincible from what?
From rocks, trees, cabins and flags bearing the developer’s logo. My snowball gets smaller when it hits these things, until it’s so small that one more hit will reduce it to nothing and the game ends. But if there’s one thing I should steer my ball away from, it’s the lakes. Not even the gold present, which is clearly inspired by Mario’s invincibility star, can save my white sphere, however large, from the lethal power of wetness. (Yes, I just wrote wetness.)
Apparently, I only have to tilt my device to play. But I find it necessary to give the screen a tap every minute. My device thinks there’s no activity going on so it dims the screen and, unless I touch it, goes to sleep. Apart from that little flaw, I think the app delivers on its promise of "the best possible gaming experience," which can be an avalanche of excitement especially past level 8, and worth the bother of performing a reboot.
Quick Take
Value: High
Would I Buy Again: Yes.
Learning Curve: Very, Very Low
Who is it for: Anyone who enjoys tilt-to-play games.
What I Like: Refreshing visuals and good accelerometer sensitivity.
What I Don’t: Having to do a reboot, and tapping the screen every so often just to tell the device that you’re actually in the middle of playing.
Final Statement: Snowball Runner took the snowball effect as its basis and looked no further than, well, a snowball for its lead. The effect? A cool, fun game.
Snowball Runner is an addicting, action-packed experience with mind-blowing visuals and sound. The game is an array of stunning imageries with herds of moving animals and sophisticated flag courses. It pushes performance boundaries, with the animation of up to 100 independent objects simultaneously in real-time. The game complements the scenic landscape with electronic music from the talented SCI Recordings.
Snowball Runner features:- A fast-paced and exciting racing game with a variety of unique scenarios including: animal kingdom, flag courses, trees and lakes of death, cliff jumping, and ramp jumping- Infinite levels! Each level is unique each time you play so it never gets boring- Local and online high scores
Future updates to come with more items and scenarios!
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