How would you like to help two miniature alien motorcyclists and an ATV rider that have crash landed on Earth to rebuild their space ship so that they can go home? This is the story behind the Space Bikers game app sent in to us for a review by Chillingo, already available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Space Bikers is played based on a 3D platform, you ride long side with the miniature aliens to help them navigate over obstacles and these range from books, bookshelves to boxes of cereals. The aim is to collect a variety of stuff, as much as possible. The game consists of three gameplay modes, play, quick race and mini-games. Of course, you will need to complete the play mode before the other modes will unlock. In the game, the player will spend their time trying to navigate the 3 different bikers to find food and pieces to rebuild their unfortunately broken ship 
. The player uses the buttons to drive and tilt the character’s bike and attempt to run over the different pieces found across the various levels.
Space Bikers is said to use an advanced physics engine to maneuver your bike through the detailed levels you encounter along the way. Fans of the game app Jellycar will find this game interesting, because Chillingo has incorporated this advanced physics aspect of game into Space Bikers. although I must say I would have liked it to be a tiny bit more responsive. The riders bounce around, slide and fold up like rag dolls when they fall and their vehicles are the same. You can control your speed to vary the vehicle’s trajectory over jumps and the angle at which it lands. If you land with the nose down, then you will do a face plant. In contrast, land with the nose up and your vehicle will fall back on top of you.
As I have mentioned already, Space Bikers has buttons to control the vehicle’s direction, speed, braking and pitch as you navigate up and over obstacles. You also have the option of using the accelerometer to control the vehicle’s pitch instead of buttons, but I am the kind of person who never manages to use the accelerometer well enough for gameplay so I stuck with buttons. One very innovative idea from Space Bikers is that you can move the buttons around to different parts of the screen so that they can be placed wherever you want which is always good if you have fat fingers like me and want them to be more customised to your own needs.
At introductory price Space Bikers is $0.99, regular price – $2.99. It will be an excellent addition to your iPhone / iPod Touch games collection for kids however adults may find it less interesting and to the least of your expectations.
The following is a sum up of its features:
- Storyline is about space bikers adventures
- Based on a 3D platform
- Mini-games built-in
- Advanced physics maneuvering style like the popular game app: Jelly Car
- English, Russian, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish languages come built-in
Click here to check out Space Bikers on iTunes…
