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Draw Race (iPhone)
Aug 3rd
Finished getting gold trophies for all the levels at the weekend. This unlocks them for multiplayer and allows me to play against my own best time, rather than against a preset opponent.
In the grand tradition of Peggle, I should feel like this is where the game really starts, not where it ends. I have, in fact, been back a few times to try and beat myself and move up the online rankings. It’s just that now everything’s unlocked and I’ve got those trophies next to every track I don’t have forward momentum pushing me on and it all feels a bit empty to me. I’d love a few dozen more levels to play, maybe even just all the tracks again in reverse, or something.
I think the problem I have with just playing old tracks and trying to beat my own times is that the game doesn’t have the precision it needs. I can’t draw exactly where I want, nor at exactly the speed I want, so it all feels a bit random. I’m sure the game’s code is precise enough, don’t get me wrong, but my big, fat finger just doesn’t offer the necessary level of control.
Still, I don’t hesitate to recommend it for 59p. It’s interesting, more than anything else, and I’ve got a couple of hours of play out of it so far. I also wouldn’t be surprised to see it pulling me back again and again, despite how I feel right now. We’ll see.
Draw Race (iPhone)
Jul 30th
It’s a top-down racing game… but with a twist. (Exclamation mark.) You, as the name implies, draw a path for your car with your finger, trying to get the speed right and take the best racing line. When you’ve drawn the required number of laps your car does its best to follow the line you’ve drawn. If you beat the blue car, hooray. If you don’t, try again.
My big, fat fingers aren’t really precise enough for the job, but I’m having great fun with it. Mainly because when you finish a race it compares your time to everyone else’s and tells you what percentage of people you’re better than. On one track I’m better than 56% of people, which is nice. I have, a couple of times, scraped a win and been better than 0% of people. When that happens I try again.
My only concern right now is that I’m unlocking all the tracks very, very quickly and I’m not sure that I’ll want to carry on playing once it’s just a question of racing the same old tracks over and over. I guess I’ll find out soon enough.
Regardless, for 59p you really should download this, just because it’s new, different and great fun, even if it might only be so for an hour or two.
