SpeedRunner: Sprinting Toward Bombs
There are many games that are based around the use of speed, but few of those games involve individuals and not machines. There have been many games made where you have to drive a car, fly a plane, or control a robot that moves incredibly quickly. Still other games have been made involving animals. Not that many games have been made that involve human superheroes, however, and SpeedRunner steps in nicely to fill the void. In SpeedRunner, you will need to be as fast as you possibly can in order to win, whether that means outrunning the enemy or sprinting toward bombs.
When the game starts out, you are told that there are a number of scientists trapped in a lab with a bomb. They are all going to be killed if the bomb is allowed to go off. There is no one fast enough to save them except for you. Leaving from a great distance away, you need to run across the 2D level and get to the lab before the bomb goes off. A large timer at the top of the screen makes sure that you know exactly how much time you have before the scientists are killed.
It is not all about running across a flat surface, however, as if you are just trying to set a land speed record. You have to go up flights of stairs and jump over gaps in the floor. You have to leap over obstacles that will slow you down - potted plants and wooden crates, to start - and try to pick up the power-ups that will give you even greater speed. The whole speedrunner game is a matter of being quick on your toes and trying to post the best time as you save the trapped scientists.
SpeedRunner is quite fun because it gets more challenging as it goes on. When you save the scientists, they give you a grappling hook that you can use to swing from the rooftops. As you disarm more and more bombs, the villain begins to notice your efforts. He gives you something to run away from as he comes after you in a huge death machine. You need to swing over spikes and hurdle gaps as you struggle to keep ahead of him at all times. This gets to be a complex game as it goes on, but it is easy enough for all.
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