Hardcore Droid: "For a racing game with essentially two buttons, “Pixel Boat Rush” demands an unexpected degree of driving finesse; thankfully, it also delivers a satisfying amount of carnage. "
TTP:" Pixel Boat Rush, the nice racing game developed by XperimentalZ Games now available on the App Store, has recently received a new big update introducing plenty of the new content."
TouchArcade: Pixel Boat Rush [$0.99] is a rad 2D boat racing game from the folks at XperimentalZ Games, who have also done a good job with their previous releases like Platforms Unlimited [$0.99] and Don't Run With a Plasma Sword [$1.99], the latter of which is also a top-notch name for a game. Well, Pixel Boat Rush has just gotten its first sale, dropping down to $0.99 from its $1.99 price.
TouchArcade: I've often felt that the genre that perhaps benefited the most from the jump from 2D to 3D was racing. Really thinking about it, racing is one of the genres that begged the most for polygons, having already spent years working in pseudo-3D with scaling sprites and optical tricks. Hardware that couldn't manage said tricks tended to have racers that skewed the perspective to at least offer some sort of visual depth. Racers that opted for a strict, flat side-view to the action were historically pretty rare outside of obstacle course time-attacks like Motocross Maniacs. There are lots of reasons as to why that was likely the case, but it mostly comes down to the simple idea that it's hard to express the excitement of racing from that point of view. If there is no depth, there's no passing, no hairpin turns, no drafting, and collisions become hard to sort out. You have to find other ways to bring the beautiful tension that makes racing so compelling, and that's just what Pixel Boat Rush [$1.99] sets out to do.
