- FLY MY PRETTY!!!
Canabalt, a one-button-wonder ingeniously created by Semi Secret Software has just been recently released for the iPhone.
Canabalt has a very simple objective; the world is over-run by aliens (oh come on, aliens? they look more like Franken-lobster thingies to me) and you have to run for your life, on top of buildings as frickin’ fast as you can (to where? well I don’t really know, ha ha), or else, you get to be the rotten egg, well, maybe fried, or scrambled, well one way or another the aliens are gonna cook you, isn’t THAT what they do?
Canabalt is a side scroller game with ONE, that’s right, ONE frickin’ button. That’s all you need to push, not 3, not 2, but ONE frickin’ button for all you monkeys out there who like to poke things with one finger, now put that lame muscle to use and get some high score. That one button will make your character jump, holding that button longer makes him jump higher. Canabalt measures the distance you’ve covered right before you FATALLY TRIPPED on a cardboard box, jump too soon and fell before landing on the next building (yeah, how’s that for thrilling), or slamming straight into an alien who was apparently sleeping (in the middle of a world-wide chaotic extraterrestrial invasion) and just woke up on one of the buildings you were running on (now that’s a wow). Canabalt is your genuine beat-that-high-score-game everyone seems to have brought back into the gaming industry since the old days where “SAVE” wasn’t invented yet.
Canabalt is wonderful, thrilling, sytlish, nostalgic, and worth it. With one button to use, what have you got to lose?
Oh yeah, just needed to clarify one thing, that “sleeping alien” I was talking about, ws apparently a missile, ha ha, I’m seeing things, especially when running for my life.
Canabalt gets 5 (nothing special I can think of folks) out of five.
Play the game online here!
