Posted by Ryan Johnson on Feb 25, 2010

BloodyRush

Categories: Games, | 0 comments | |

If you walked the streets of a major city at night wearing a full body bright red spandex suit with a matching cape and helmet you’d probably have to run for your life to stay alive. Well in BloodyRush, that’s exactly what you have to do. In this bloody and fast paced 2D arcade game you’re dressed as a light footed speed demon super hero who’s sole purpose in life is to run across the top of buildings in Dark City for as long and as far as he can without getting killed. Along the way toxic goo filled barrels, floating spiked balls, vertically challenged lolly pop wielding runts and mindless sasquatchesk brutes stand in your path. To maintain your health and keep up your frenetic pace you’ve got to jump, slide, kick, and uppercut your way through the night.

BloodyRush is a fast paced non-stop race to the death. The farther you go the faster and more challenging the game becomes. You wrack up points the longer you stay alive so it’s critical that you can effectively dodge and squash your enemies. There are five different threats that’ll cross your path over and over as you play – gaps between buildings and drums of toxic waste that you have to jump over, floating morning stars that you have to slide under, and big and small monsters that you have to uppercut and kick respectively.

All of the game’s controls are touch based. To jump you swipe your finger up, to slide you swipe your finger down, to uppercut you tap the top half of the screen, and to kick you tap the bottom half of the screen. It’s critical that you’ve got these maneuvers down cold if you’re going to go far in the game. It sounds simple enough, which for a period of time it is, but as the game pics up pace you’ll start questioning yourself. Your ability to concentrate and time your taps and swipes to perfection determines your success.

Overall BloodyRush is a fairly entertaining game. In a way it brings back some childhood memories playing Mortal Combat. It has old school looks and sounds, and provides generous amounts of blood spatter. However, although there’s blood and action heroes involved, BloodyRush is much more of a timing game than it is an action and adventure or fighting game. I did enjoy seeing how far I could go in the game, and comparing my score on the global leaderboard, but personally I’d like the game even more if it offered multiple levels, with more characters and a wider variety of challenges.

Pros: