Temple Run 2 review!

Temple Run has to be one of the most played games on the mobile phone! It is simple, yet addictive and I was no alien to it! I have played over a thousand games, with a multiplier of 43x, have achieved majority of the objectives. (only those who have played it will understand)

One fine day, I read it in an English daily that Temple Run 2 had been launched, and I quickly installed it and am playing the newer version almost every day!! This is a mini-review of Temple Run 2….

First of all, the game has taken considerable leaps in terms of graphics. The terrain has completely changed with the newer one looks more like a fort built on a mountain rather than a traditional temple. However the best part of the terrain is the addition of interesting features/obstacles such as the waterfalls, rivers, zip-lines, cut-trees, arch-bridges, stairs and even tunnels (where one travels in a cart). Along with that, the road is zig-zag and not straight unlike the one in the game’s predecessor. One thing it does share is that the game is instantly addictive. 

To look at the short-falls, the game is battery consuming, a bit too dandy and unnecessarily complex. Getting gold and reaching objectives has been made difficult. Since you have only 3 objectives per level, many of those are not sequentially ordered, which at times in frustrating. (eg. Collecting a lifetime of 100,000 gold coins lies before the objective of running 2500m! )   However, this has made the game more difficult to play and exhaust.

To conclude, Temple Run 2 has been like a Diwali Rocket- high-flying, attractive and has made the right noises with most players. But I am not sure if all of them will love it as much they loved the previous version. Time will only answer if it can scale the heights Temple Run “1” had achieved!