Review: Eco Punk - Eco-Friendly Skateboarding Bunny Punk Who Shoots Cars Too!
by Staff Writer
February 10, 2010
Overview
Eco Punk is a brand new game that is unique in almost every way starting with the main idea. You play as a punk skateboarding bunny, who's trying to clean up the streets of garbage, and even destroy the polluting cars. The game is played in one intersection with cars constantly streaming through, and piles of garbage all through the streets.
You tap and drag to move the skateboarder, and try to collect the garbage. Power-ups pop up occasionally which let you blast through cars or shoot at them. It's hectic fast paced action trying to make the biggest combo of collecting garbage, and blasting polluting cars. Help the punk bunny clean up the world.
Features
Three gameplay modes are included with classic, blitz, and time bender. Classic mode is just an endless survival game with one touch death. Blitz is just like classic mode, but with a 60 second time limit. Finally time bender mode has the cars move at the speed you move the skateboarder. OpenFeint is included with online high scores for each gameplay mode, plus 15 achievements.
The Good
The very idea of the game is outstanding combining skateboard punk, bunny, eco friendly theme, and shooting at cars. It's epically insanity that is a joy to play. It's amazingly fun and simple to drag your finger around the screen, directing the bunny, and collecting garbage chains as long as you can. The gameplay is just great, it's as simple as that. You can get lost in the game finding yourself playing over, and over with such an amazingly easy and fun gameplay. The three gameplay modes each offer something completely different, and each are addictive enough in their own right.
Eco Punk is hectic fast paced fun, swerving in and out of cars collecting as much garbage as you can. Then it's amped up be needing to make chains of garbage collection to get huge combos in the fifties to really rack up the points, and clean the environment. Then as you're progressing power orbs appear which let you dispose of polluting cars.
There is just such high stakes with one mistake getting hit by a car, and it's game over. Then there is a jarring smash, and explosion of blood as the the skateboarding bunny gets hit, and it's game over.
Eco Punk is beautifully designed with everything rendered in 3D, and such fine details in every building in the intersection. Then there is the punk bunny which is one of the best characters on the iPhone to date. It's great to see him skateboard around, and then pull out guns, and start blasting away cars, or just plain skate right through them leaving cars torched.
As you're skating around, the bunny occasionally does different little skateboard tricks that are nice animations in the background of the main action. A great punk rock mixed with techno theme song is included as well that fits perfectly. On top of that there are a few quotes by the punk bunny which are absolutely hilarious, especially with its voice.
