Review
Cheeping out
by RevStu (October 30th, 2010 at 6:00 am)
Yeah, okay, so mice don’t ordinarily cheep. But the little squeaky noises they make in Chu Chu Rocket are pretty close, and more to the point they’re pretty appropriate for what Sega have done with this £2.99/€3,99/$4.99 iThing release of their decade-old cat-and-mouse classic.
Originally a 1999 freebie given away to Dreamcast owners in an ill-fated attempt to make them use the console’s weedy dial-up modem for online battles (which met with a distinctly limp response), CCR really came into its own in the guise of handheld game, when it morphed into a fantastic puzzler on the Gameboy Advance a year later. If anything Chu Chu Rocket is a game that’s even more perfectly suited to the iOS machines than it was to Nintendo’s mini-monster, so the mystery is why this new version is so much worse than the GBA one.
