MMX Hill Dash — OffRoad Racing in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ The makings of a good game riddled with tons of frustration

I'm not sure which aspect is more frustrating, the inconsistent "physics" or the utterly ridiculous amount of ads. As far as the physics go, I can run the same map four times, exactly the same way, pedal to the metal and when I encounter the first obstacle sometimes I'll bounce up onto the rear wheels, sometimes I'll land on the front wheels, and occasionally I'll land upside down. Don't get me started on bouncing off of some drawbridges after 1000m of an 1100m course, nearly to the end of your 56th attempt to beat it and flipping over uncontrollably to explode when you've simply bounced backwards the other 55 times. Then come the ads. Yes, I get that this is a free game funded by ads. Yes, you can opt in to ads to get free upgrades or gold. But when after every 3-4 attempts at a track you throw in a 30 second ad that can't be skipped? It wouldn't be so bad if it were every 5 minutes or so, but the fact is when you're exploding every 32 seconds due to the aforementioned inconsistent "physics" this game ends up being an exercise in futility and has nearly resulted in a flying iPhone on multiple occasions. If the physics were more consistent and the ads slightly less frequent, this had the makings to be a great game. Until then, my iPhone is at risk of being thrown at least once a day.

★★★★★ Sad

Just wanted to drop by and say, I’ve been playing hill dash since iPad #1. Every time apples 3 year product life expectancy came up, my then current iPad would unexplainably croak and I would go out like a moron robot brainwashed by big corporate programming and buy another one. One of the first things I would do is reinstall hill dash, it’s like home cooking or something. I’ve finished all the levels countless times. Then I would just go back and start again. Well, Rent in the apple app palace must have gone up hella because I can only get three maybe four attempts at a level before a 30 second commercial pops up. It wasn’t like that in the olden days! Im either building up a resistance to my apple flavored Thorazine or I’m just plain crazy but, I can’t stand commercials! I can’t do it any more. All those seconds add up to minutes and then whatever comes next that I could be funneling into real meaningful and even MINDful gameplay (I’m not sure what that means but every one is saying it so it must be good) Anyway, I gave you 2 stars for old times sake. Maybe someday in the distant future when my mind is uploaded to another moron robot we can look back and laugh about all this. But from the way things are going I don’t think so. We’re all doomed.....

★★★★★ Pretty good game

So far I’m enjoying this game. Controls are easy, the graphics are great, and I’m enjoying the challenge with the leaderboards. I haven’t had any problems with this game aside of it crashing on me once. - EDIT - this was one of my favorite games, I played for a couple hours every day. In my opinion, the creators should definitely cut back the ads. Literally every 4-5 tries on a track and I get a 30 second (not skippable) ad. It becomes very annoying. I could deal with ads, BUT, what I can’t deal with, is that there is one track. One track that is unbeatable. I have numerous friends that play this game, and tons more who play on Facebook, and not ONE person has beaten this certain track. I must have attempted at least 100 tries (seriously) with every single vehicle I have. You can’t progress until this track complete, and the price to buy a new map or vehicle is outrageous. It’s 20k coins, when the only way you can get coins is by beating other peoples scores (100 points) Or buy getting 400 free coins every 4 hours or so. This game has potential, but I wish the creators would of fully tested the game before releasing it. Until then, my review will go down to 2 stars.

★★★★★ Initially fun, full of ads, inevitable pay wall

I love side scrolling driving physics games. Tried this one out and enjoyed the first hour or so enough to pay the $1.99. (Price of going to the arcade for 5 minutes) then came the inevitable grind of either spending hours running a course that gave minimal point rewards and placed them in areas that require you to forget about completing the level in a timely manner and are sometimes impossible to gather, or "watching" 20 minutes of ads to bank the amount of coins needed to upgrade your vehicle. After you submit to that grind you will eventually get the the mayhem levels which should actually be called Insanity "doing the same level tens or hundreds of times expecting a different result" seems that you either must get very lucky with the random physics that are imparted upon your vehicle, or submit to the paywall to buy the vehicle necessary to complete that level which is not unlockable due to the design of the vehicle unlocks. You need vehicle a to complete course b to allow for the unlock of vehicle c to complete course d, but a is only unlocked after completion of course d..........

★★★★★ Addictive very addictive

I have been playing this game for over three or four years now and I took a very long break from it idk why but it’s very addictive and fun almost resulted in a thrown iPhone because of lag spikes and crashes but I think it’s my phone from how many times I dropped and thrown my phone from every game I play but still very fun when I got the beast I freaked out same with the tank the tank took me ages of hard concentration to get but it’s one of my best trucks now and I still haven’t gotten the gt version. The first is still better than the second in my opinion but overall probably my favorite game I have. Thank you for making this game.

★★★★★ Too frustrating to enjoy

Great graphics and effects, the grind is really fair (for purchasing cars etc) but the control is soooo frustrating I had to delete the game. When I'm attempting to beat a time or complete a course to advance and I have to fight the front wheels flying upwards and then my vehicle mysteriously exploding because my roof touches the ground I want to go outside and punch a squirrel, then find his nest and punch his entire family of baby squirrels. Then there are levels with beach balls that for some reason make you explode if they lightly touch your roof. Then there's those frikkin campers that just drop on you randomly when your making good time and you explode. What's on my roof? Is there nitro glycerin in the paint? Why am I constantly exploding? Why does the game insist on ruining the fun of the game with crappy physics and random kicks to the nards when you're doing well? I tried. I tried for longer than I should have because like a bad movie with a good idea; I wanted to enjoy it.

★★★★★ Frustrated!

Starts out great. Cool graphics and sound. But as you advance it turns to crap. Snow, Mayhem marathon 1 can't get past 600 meters with any car available. There's no controlling what happens to the car. You hit a pipe the car flys into the air and knocks it around like a pinball with no control until it explodes. Maxing out the car levels only makes it worse. After hundreds of attempts I give up. Loved this game at first, now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Sorry, maybe if you made it just slightly more user friendly I'd keep trying. I understand difficult but this is ridiculous. Edit... ok, so I'm still frustrated with the Snow, Mayhem marathon 1 after 5 days of trying, still not finish able. So I went back and took a look at what it would take to open other tracks and vehicles. Having fun with it now. We'll see how it goes, I may still up the star rating again.