There are only two settings – easy and hard - with no other variations on the gameplay. While incredibly simple and rather dull in explanation, in play it's quite something different, and a genuine feeling of vertiginous danger begins to tingle in your fingertips as the gap between you and the ground grows. Miss a platform and fall off the bottom of the screen and it's back to the bottom. The screen scrolls upwards at pretty much its own pace, so if you're ascending at a lick, the difficulty increases as you spend much of your time at the top of the screen and don't get as much warning as to where the jump is taking you. If you can keep running and make two or three consecutive jumps, your wee climber will fairly catapult himself through the air, and hoofing it up the towers suddenly becomes an incredibly fast-paced exercise. Running sideways and jumping is a different matter. A single jump is just about enough to make it to the next ledge, so your initial strategy will likely be to hold down the jump button and scale the tower one platform at a time.Įssentially this works, but does you no favours in terms of points or thrills. The horizontal limits of the play area are the sides of the screen, so most of the action here is vertical in nature.
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The only way to the top is a series of platforms that build a winding staircase you're required to ascend in leaps and bounds. There's no inane justification for why you're climbing the endless tower, other than 'it's there'.Ĭhoosing one of three characters (a purely aesthetic choice) you begin at the bottom of a lofty campanile (only without a bell, as far as we can tell). The sole objective is to climb, and keep climbing, without falling off the ledges that lead to the, well, top I suppose. After a few minutes, however, Icy Tower suddenly comes to life, and what was perplexingly ridiculous suddenly clicks into place. It begins as a sorely limited and downright disappointing affair that requires little more effort than holding the '2' button down. Icy Tower has become something of a cult hit phenomenon on the net, but with squillions of gamers already bounding up the slippery barbican on PC, it remains to be seen how many will be inclined to go through it all again on their mobiles.īut that's for Hands On to worry about – we'll stick to deliberating on the odd gameplay. This won't come as quite the same epiphany to the 10 million people who've apparently downloaded the original web version, of course.
It's not particularly special - the graphics are more functional than impressive, the gameplay is limited and there's little in the way of options or much longevity.
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