Drag and drop game review 1: Terrorats

 

 

This game is an app for the iPhone and android.

It is a very colourful game with a bright cartoon style to it.

Gameplay:

This game plays like a sorting game that’s sometimes featured as a mini game ir many versions of the standard one. Basically you sort out rats into different police cars. You drag the red rats into the red police car and the blue rats into the blue police car. However you have to be fast, otherwise the rat will blow itself up if left for too long, which is indicated when they have an exclamation mark above their heads.

The rats will start out on the screen as grey. As the rats turn blue or red you have to quickly drag them to the police car that’s the same colour as them.



screenshot of Terrorats 2

 

As you put rats in a police car it will quickly become full. You can empty it at any time. The fatter rats will take up more room than the smaller ones so you have to choose yourself when the best time to empty it is. The police car is emptied by dragging it off the side of the screen. The more rats inside the police car, the more points will be earned. Additional combo bonus points can be earned by dragging multiple rats to the same police car.

 

Power ups

It is possible to obtain and use power ups as they appear on the screen. There are multiple power ups with their own effect that help benefit the gameplay.

Ø  Slow Motion: makes the rats move slower to make it easier to catch them.

Ø  Extra Seats: extends the amount of room available in the police car to 8 rats per car

Ø  Disarm: converts any terrorat on the screen into a friendly grey rat.

Ø  Starvation: forces the terrorats to decrease in size through starving them so that you can fit more of them into a police car.

However this game features power downs. This are dished out every so often if you have a high score to pace the game out to not make it too easy.

Power Downs:

Ø  Steroids: rats on steroids, move faster and have a quicker destination timer.

Ø  Infiltration: any power up at the time will be taken away, no matter how many of them you have.

Ø  Riot: rats will arm themselves and unite against you.

Ø  Cheese: rats will eat this in order to become larger. Doing so will mean you can’t fit as many into the police cars.

Ø  Confusion: makes it harder to put the rats I the police car of their colour.

 

Summary

I feel that this games focus on power ups make it allot more fun than if the game didn’t have the power ups in it. You also have to keep an eye on the rat’s randomly changing colour to protect against potential explosions. I also like the way the game trains your eye coordination and finger reflexes, which are used to discard power downs from the screen, which adds intensity to it.