Presidents Run
SCORE: 73
I was all ready to declare Presidents Run the next big thing. It became a craze here at Family Friendly Gaming when we published that press release about it. But that craze fizzled out extremely fast. What was the cause of the fizzle? We will get there my friends, we will get there.
The concept behind Presidents Run is interesting and exciting. Pick your candidate and run with them in a Jetpack Joyride kind of way. There is no jetpack in Presidents Run - some double jump boots though. The candidate runs for miles and collects votes. React Games logs the run and tabulates the votes on their website. We can go and check our scores for our candidates.
This is where we ran into problems and where Presidents Run fizzled out. Many of us play our iPods, and iPads offline. We then play them on a router so our scores are uploaded. Except we found scores were not being uploaded for Rick Santorum. Hours of game play by multiple people was not being counted.
We contacted the developer and was told there was a bug and it was fixed. So we tested it the very next morning. This time playing a few feet from a router. Checked and four hours later the votes were not appearing for Rick Santorum. We tried using iPhones and the votes were not making it. Then someone here noticed something. We ran over fifty thousand miles for Rick Santorum and Obama jumped up over fifty thousand miles. Was it connected? Don’t know but it seems suspicious.
This is what killed Presidents Run for all of us here at Family Friendly Gaming. The tracking is not accurate. It should be a simple thing. Log in the device and compare its current score to its last score. Add those to the candidate flagged and its all good. But Presidents Run has to log into their servers when the game is being played. We get no error message to find out all those miles are not being tracked.
As of writing this review over half a million miles have been lost for Rick Santorum. And most of us have removed the app from our devices because we have no faith in the tracking.
Presidents Run
contains mild violence as we run into protestors, bells, whistles,
goats, and more. The candidate slides on their face until they come to a
stop. A revive item is available for purchase. Presidents Run is a free
app.
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Paul
Graphics: 78%
Sound: 81%
Replay/Extras: 78%
Gameplay: 60%
Family Friendly Factor: 69%
System: iPhone/iPod Touch
Publisher: React Games
Rating: ‘4+’ for 4+
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