The only other button used is X, which is dedicated to power-ups that you collect as you drive. The driving is all controlled using the D-pad and is generally satisfying, even though the car's slippery and drifty handling takes a bit of getting used to, in a 1970s Starsky and Hutch kind of way. As with a lot of smartphone games, you'll need a certain number of stars to unlock later levels. The aim is to slalom between traffic and jump the occasional gorge, all the while collecting coins and leaving a destructive wake of wrecks and totalled police cars.Įach stunt or coin pick-up earns you a set number of points, all of which add up your final score – measured as a one to four star rating. The main mode of the game puts you in control of a getaway driver being pursued by police along motorways, country roads, coastal drives, and icy, mountainous backroads. It’s all about the chase – less Need for Speed: Shift and more a cartoony Burnout meets an over-the-top Driver.īut enough comparisons. ![]() The first thing to note about Reckless Getaway is that it isn’t a racer as such. Thank the Gods that Reckless Getaway does away with such nonsense as ‘physics’ and ‘realism’ and replaces them with a welcome dose of madness and destruction. The laws of physics, eh? What have they ever done for the hard-working, honest bank-robber? Nothing. ![]() Don’t you hate it when you’ve just robbed a bank and you pile into your getaway vehicle to perform a spectacular leap to freedom across a canyon only to have pesky gravity stop you from making it?
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