Pitfall!
by Activision Publishing Ltd

Comparisons to Temple Run are obvious being that Pitfall! is an endless runner game that’s set in a Mayan-Adventure style world. But I have to say I find this game way more addictive and way more enjoyable to play.

For starters I love the bright colourful Nintendosque graphics of the game – it feels, I don’t know… happy. Combined with the games great use of multiple camera angles as you run through a beautifully created world of rainforest, jungle villages and abandoned mines, Pitfall! is a veritable visual treat for the eyes.

The gameplay is moderately simple- left, right, swipe up to jump etc. but it’s the extra additions that make this game so much fun. Get far enough into the mine for example, and you take control of a runaway cart zipping along rickety rail lines and avoiding unfinished-plummet-to-your-death deadend tracks a la Temple of Doom- very cool indeed. Jump in the right place whilst running and you find yourself on the back of some kind of big cat as he gallops hell for leather round the jungle path knocking stuff down as he goes. And of course for us old school gamers there’s plenty of nods to Pitfall’s humble origins as you battle scorpions & snakes and ropeswing over ravines – no crocodiles though!

All in all Pitfall! is a cracker of a game. It looks good, it plays well and frankly it’s Harry’s best outing since The Lost Caverns way back in 1984!

4/5