Gravity Guy

Gravity Guy – He’s flippin’ marvellous!

Who out there ever fancied having a special ability or super human skill? I think if we were being honest, just about everyone of us would like at least one cool ability. Alas being able to teleport and fly seems a little bit beyond our reach at least we can dream of what it would be like. Gravity Guy is lucky enough not to just settle for dreaming though as he gets to flip between surfaces with simple taps of the screen.

This game is a scrolling platform style format where you have Gravity Guy running from left to right as the ground moves along. What you must do is navigate your way through the course of undulating corridors. This is pretty simple in principle but when you’re having to rush away from your pursuing droid and the courses get increasingly more complex and testing to your reaction speeds, you will be firmly challenged by this little game.

Gravity Guy, as all superhero’s do, has his weaknesses. He’s pretty useless when it comes to blocks (he can’t jump – probably due to his gravity boots sticking so solidly to the surface), and he doesn’t like wide open spaces (as he’ll fall off screen). So my advice to you is as long as you remember to keep your feet on the “ground” (whichever way up that may well be), your chances will be radically improved.

If playing against the computer and the persistent droid you can give your friends a chance at proving their skills with up to four players allowed to play at any one time – needless to say, the competitive level is notched up just a few levels when competing with your friends and laughter and banter are bound to come as a result. The only tricky thing is having so many people holding the iPod/iPhone at any one time without either a) you can’t see what’s happening on screen or b) a fair bit of cheating will probably “accidentally” happen.

Overall this game is simplicity in itself and yet thoroughly challenging and very entertaining. Whether you play it by yourself or with your friends, you’ll be sure to find it nearly impossible to put down.

Positives

Hugely entertaining

Compete single player or multi-player

Very addictive

Negatives

Pretty repetitive

Limitless lives is good on the one hand but doesn’t do much for the really purist game players out there

Frustrating at times

4 stars