Posted by Conor Duffy on Feb 11th, 2009
As I’ve written before, I’m a big fan of “tilty” games – 2D titles that have you drive a vehicle across a bumpy terrain as quickly as possible, doing your best to keep your balance throughout. It’s a simple concept, and maybe that’s why I enjoy them so much; in order to screw up a tilty game, you need to be really dense.
Enter Buggy Run 2: Operation Blizzard. This is an “exclusive” to Flash247.com, and it’s not hard to see why. God knows I’d be embarrassed to put this on my site (unless, of course, it was only to say how crap it was, which I am, so that’s all right.)
Apparently the creator of Buggy Run 2 thought the game needed more of a plot than “Drive over there” so we’re granted a story of espionage, intrigue and dropping small thermonuclear devices out of your car before driving away very quickly. All right, so it’s not Final Fantasy, but then what is? And besides, isn’t a story sort of superfluous to a game like this? People don’t play tilty games for the exciting cut scenes; they play them because they’re cheap and cheerful time wasters.
But then, Buggy Run 2 might be compensating for something, as it’s neither cheap nor cheerful, and while most games of this type allow you to drive, this one feels you’d have a lot more fun if your vehicle spent most of its time lying on its roof with its wheels spinning in the air like some metal tortoise. I can’t tell if the controls are too sensitive or not enough, as I never really got a chance to check, usually flipping head over arse if I bumped into anything more than three inches high. Of course, you have the ability to jump and right yourself, which comes in handy, but not if you use it at the wrong place or at the wrong time. I actually managed to flip 360 degrees three times in a row before my buggy finally exploded.
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