http://podgamer.com game reviews and features for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, except not rubbish Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:07:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://podgamer.com/4539/rat-on-a-skateboard-gnawly-dude/ http://podgamer.com/4539/rat-on-a-skateboard-gnawly-dude/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:56:40 +0000 Craig Grannell http://podgamer.com/?p=4539

The Rat is back. After being On The Run (innovative, demanding one-thumb platforming jump-o-game with several modes) and On A Scooter (cute one-thumb jump-o-game with several modes), he’s now trying to be all cool, On A Skateboard (you guessed it: one-thumb jump-o-game with several modes). So: gameplay. The imaginatively named Ratty has been glued to a skateboard and shoved into scary and demanding courses. The only way to help him escape from the skateboard is to ‘collide’ with helpful obstacles, whereupon he’s liberated from his shackles, flying out of the screen to his freedom/doom (depending on what he lands on). It’s a tough life being a rat. If you want to play the game properly, though, you’ll have to ensure Ratty survives until the end of each of the 30 challenge courses, or, in the case of Power Stunts and Banana Harbour, forever, since they’re randomly generated and infinitely long. (Continued...)]]> http://podgamer.com/4539/rat-on-a-skateboard-gnawly-dude/feed/ 0