Rocking Adeel KHamisani: Subway Surfers Game

Sunday, 6 October 2013

Subway Surfers Game

Subway Surfers is an "endless running" mobile game co-developed by Kiloo, a private company based in Denmark and SYBO Games. Launched in 2012, "World Tour" is the theme of the game, wherein capital/most populous cities in each country like New York, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Rome, Tokyo, Miami, Paris, Beijing and Moscow have been featured till now.^[1] Available on the iOS and Android platforms, the game features three default characters; Jake, Tricky and Fresh as they dash and dodge trains to escape from the grumpy inspector and his dog.

The objective of the game is to run as far as possible in an endless game world by avoiding randomly generated obstacles that require the player to either jump (slide finger forward), duck (slide finger backwards) and/or dodge the oncoming trains (slide finger laterally) in a precise manner, with the help of occasional power-ups. The overall 3-D gameplay has the player character collecting lots of bonus coins on its way, occasionally surfing, and running "into the screenCrash Bandicoot style", very similarly to the 1999 Pepsiman (non-endless) running videogame on PlayStation, in contrast with the 2-Dside-scrolling of genre founder Canabalt. Special missions will reward the player with bonuses for accomplishing precise gameplay tasks.

As with many free tablet/mobile games, Subway Surfers is in fact "optionally free by default". It uses two types of virtual currency for in-game purchases: abundant golden coins, and very rare blue keys for specific special items. Extra amounts of both may be acquired via online payment of real money.

Typically, every month the game's update features a new city as setting and title, with essentially graphic differences while keeping the same gameplay, and weekly city-themed "treasure hunts" that earn the player special bonuses. The updates also introduce a new character, available for in-game "purchase" only for a limited time, and a similarly time-limited assorted board ; both of which become permanent if purchased in time. For instance, the Paris version included a tongue-in-cheek stereotyped mime character, a French flag board, and the weekly hunts consisted of collecting a given number of souvenir miniature Eiffel towers.