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On your mark... get set... go! You can now play as Usain Bolt in Imangi's Bronze Award-winning Temple Run 2

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On your mark... get set... go! You can now play as Usain Bolt in Imangi's Bronze Award-winning Temple Run 2
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In addition to being a six-time Olympic champion and a good friend of Richard Branson, Usain Bolt is an adventurous treasure hunter.

Bet you didn't know that, eh?!

Yup, that's right: legendary Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is now a playable character in Imangi's Bronze Award-winning endless-runner Temple Run 2.

Lightning Bolt

So, yeah, you can 'buy' the current 100m and 200m world record holder for 69p / 99c and take him on a run through Imangi's crumbling corridors and mine cart-filled tunnels.

Speaking to our business-focused sister site PocketGamer.biz, Bolt revealed that his appearance in Temple Run 2 is unlikely to be his last in the mobile gaming world.

According to the Caribbean sprint sensation, he'll release his own endless-runner at some point "in the future".

Unless the game is only playable in 10- or 20-second-bursts, however, the game's dev isn't really going to capture the essence of being the man himself.

You can grab Temple Run 2 from the App Store for free [download] and from the Google Play Store for the same price [download].

Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.