Hook Champ LITE
By Rocketcat Games
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Description
Try Hook Champ, completely free!
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5 out of 5 score on Appvee.com!
4 out of 4 score on Slidetoplay.com!
Featured in the Best of 2009 for Toucharcade.com!
Featured under "Best Swinging Game" by Apple!
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Hook Champ is a physics platformer about using a grappling hook to swing through haunted ruins at high speeds. Designed for immense replay value, Hook Champ features a retro style and the most hat fashion customization of any game on the market.
Check out our youtube trailer and more at http://www.rocketcat-games.com/hook/
Features:
- Easy to learn, with a seamless tutorial: Swing, walk, and leap to victory!
- Local, Global, and OpenFeint High Score boards for every single level! Beat developer scores for surprises!
- Total OpenFeint Support: Achievements! Ghost Race Challenges! Leaderboards, including Most Coins Board!
- Character Upgrades and Collectibles: Spend your loot on character upgrades and fancy hats!
- Pick up and Play: After closing the app for any reason, resume your game exactly where you left off.
- Supports playing your own music! Play music from your own library, or use ours.
- Varied Levels: Each level has its own special gameplay challenges.
- Unlocks: Get new Challenge Levels, new characters, and more for progressing in the game!
- Fast load times: Detailed "Pixel graphics" technology allows the average load time to be about a second!
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What's New in Version 1.40
-New levelset featuring John Gore of Minigore! Shoot through swarms of enemies with an unlimited ammo machinegun!
-New control revamp makes the game even easier to jump in and play. Hook Champ veterans can still use the "Classic" control scheme via the UI Display option in the settings menu.
-OpenFeint support added to Hook Champ Lite! Challenge your friends, compete on leaderboards, earn achievements, and more!
-Numerous bugfixes and improvements
Customer Reviews
Download at your own risk...(please read)
...because I guarantee you will be hooked! You will love this game so much that you'll have no choice but to buy the full version. This game is chock full of retro goodness packed up in a package that is not only fun to play, but addictive too! The individual elements of this game combine to form a solid gameplay experience.
There's your classic action/adventure aspect as you're swinging through the caves with a horrible monster chasing you, there's humorous dialog between characters at the beginning of each level, there's powerups that help make your journey easier, there's an equipment store that let's you upgrade your powerups with money obtained from playing the levels, and there's online leaderboards for bragging rights as to who's the swinging champ. Let's not forget the old school graphics that bring back a wave of nostalgia and puts a smile on your lips as you remember the days that got you hooked on video games to begin with.
Long story short, this is a must have for your iDevice!
Retro gaming, modern fun
Ever play Cave Story? Spelunky? Pagantizu? Bionic Commando? Then you don't need to read this review.
The rest of you, listen up! This is old-school puzzle-action gameplay, adorable (and super-fast!) pixel art, and more hats than Bartholemew Cubbins ever dreamed of. Swinging madly through a cave, armed with your trusty grapple, you are trying to stay one step ahead of the manifest curse of...whichever idol you happen to have just stolen from its eternal resting place, and believe me, there are a lot of idols sitting around. It's maddening fun, and hands down the best and most entertaining platformer I've seen on this platform yet.
Liked Canabalt but thought it was too repetetive? No such problems here. You're escaping-to-the-right, yes, but you go up, down, sideways, over lava and through crumbling walls - and you have your trusty rocket boots, shotgun, and...bat musk? Yes, bat musk, because the bats explode when you touch them, propelling you a bit higher and faster, and bat musk attracts them closer to you faster.
In short: Don't download this if you're looking for 3-d graphics, a first-person perspective, voiceovers, a serious plot beyond the typical Raiders of the Lost Macguffin fare, or a really boring, repetetive, badly-put-together game with no fun factor and no depth.
If you're still reading, what are you waiting for? Download Hook Champ RIGHT NOW and get swingin'!
...no, I'm not one of the developers, and no, I'm not getting a kickback. I paid three bucks for this and with another four levels I'd have gladly paid ten.
Super Special!
Definetly getting the full version now.
Best game application! :D
- Free
- Category: Games
- Updated: Feb 13, 2010
- Current Version: 1.40
- 7.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Jeremy Orlando
- © Rocketcat Games
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
