Pocket Road Trip is a fast-flipping F2P racing game, out on iOS and Android on October 7th
Currently in soft-launch
Pocket Road Trip is a game for anyone who likes: hot rods, social competition, backflips,
Roofdog Games has soft-launched Pocket Road Trip (the "faster, cooler" successor to Extreme Road Trip) on the New Zealand and Australian App Stores.
It'll be coming out to the rest of the world on Android and iOS on October 7th. I'm going to tell you about it.
You start with a single car on a bumpy track. It accelerates automatically but, with all the hills it has to climb, it will soon come to a stop. And explode.
To keep it going further so you can collect more gold bars and cash, you need to do flips to earn yourself boost. You do this by touching the screen when the car is in the air.
You can also slam the car down from the air to get overdrive providing it hits a downhill slope. So, in a way, it's a bit like Tiny Wings with cars.
And, my, what a lot of cars it has. You unlock new cars regularly, and it's a good job, too - your cars blow up when they land on their roof or come to a stop.
What you unlock at the end of each race is determined by a Pachinko mini-game. If enough balls fall into one of the slots then you earn whatever prize is inside.
You can fix cars with cash, or you can just let the wait timer countdown. Most of the time, though, you can just spend one unit of fuel to have another go in your next best car.
Luckily, Pocket Road Trip is quite generous when it comes to giving out fuel, so you shouldn't need to spend out on IAPs just to keep playing it.
There are also missions to complete (like doing two backflips in one jump) that give you plenty of cash. Plus, you can sell cars to get more cash as well.
Pocket Road Trip is fast-paced, skill-based but very accessible, and actually quite a bit of fun. I haven't found the free to play design particularly intrusive yet, either.
You'll be able to try it out for yourself on October 7th on iOS and Android.
Unless, that is, you're in New Zealand or Australia, in which case you can download it for free on the App Store [download] and Google Play [download] right now.
