Bust-n-Rush Demo

Sometimes, simple arcade games that pose a challenge can occupy large portions of your day, just because you can’t seem to stop playing until you manage to beat one more level. Hence, regardless of whether you have to eat all the fruit in Pac-Man or defeat the evil pigs one more time in Angry Birds, things always get out of hand.

Bust-n-Rush is part of this genre and, although it might seem rather simple and unimpressive at first, the mechanics have the ability to keep you glued to the screen for a very long time. In essence, all you have to do is jump over obstacles, smash rocks, and collect a variety of power-ups to increase your score, but the way you are doing it is just so much fun.

In the game, your name is Kovo and you happen to be some kind of giant rock hero, who’s able to smash boulders with his should and apparently run forever. There’s not much emphasis put on the plot, as you can probably guess, but you won’t have time to complain about character arches anyway. Instead, jumping and cursing should be your two main activities, at least until you get too frustrated to continue.

Since the game’s premise is that you can run forever as long as you do not make mistakes, it should be obvious that the levels themselves are procedurally generated. Thus, they are never quite the same and you can certainly not learn them by heart. However, you can do this with the ones from the Challenge mode, because they are a bit more predictable and not as random.

From a technical point of view, the game is decent, but don’t expect anything too great when it comes to graphics. The animations are nice and the environments look interesting, but nothing is particularly beautiful, while the special effects lack the required elements to dazzle you. Thankfully, the music is quite alert and fun, although it too gets boring and repetitive after a while.

In the end, Bust-n-Rush may have its fair share of flaws and problems, but the experience should be fun enough to make up for them, at least for a while. Thus, if you are on the lookout for something challenging, this should definitely be on your list.