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Boulder Jack – Action Game Review
Boulder Jack is a Action/Adventure game from PlaySide Studios PTY LTD, first launched in 3rd December 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 41+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Boulder Jack Stand Out
The creators of ‘Catch The Ark’ proudly bring you the App Store’s first REVERSE RUNNER!
HELP Jack the pirate escape the massive boulder on his tail!
FEATURES
- Reverse Running
- Swipe to Move
- Different Environments and Weather Effects
- Beautiful HD Graphics
- Amazing Visual Effects
- Challenge Your Game Centre and Facebook Friends
- Ride Wilbur your Feathered Friend!
- Start your adventure today!
- This app is Universal with Retina HD Graphics.
PLEASE NOTE
Boulder Jack is completely free to play. However, some items can be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your devices settings.
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Boulder Jack is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th March 2015
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes.
Facebook update.
Download & Availability
Boulder Jack is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Please update the app to ios 11.
We love it. It's like a port of boulders and boulder dash from crash 1. But it's way to hard but overall it's AMAZING.
Goood job crash bandicoot wooow.
This is an awesome recreation of the Crash Bandicoot running from the boulder levels and the only problem we are having is the mute button keeps getting messed up. Like, we'll press mute and it's still going and then we press volume up and it's muted. Kind of confusing, that needs to be fixed a bit and some other glitches too.
A very well made, reverse runner, fun game that has a lot of suspense. Great job devs.
We LOVE THIS GAME! It's super addictive, but we have minor complaints. First there needs to be more characters. Secondly, we just want some sensitivity options to make it easier to move. That's all.
Yes! We can't believe we just came across this game. We're so excited that it's similar to Crash.
We like it. We think more characters would be cool. Like the girl from bandicoot on here. Hudamagada mask …ect.
We thought the game was great. Only when we died, the screen starting shaking behind the menu (didn't affect the gameplay) but 5/5.
Similar to that Twinsanity level on crash bandicoot.
-The graphics look nice. -Love the different view(hate always looking at the back of your character like a lot of the other runners like it) -Can get pretty challenging Cons -needs different characters or outfits for the character. As of now there's not much to save up for but power ups. -needs more different power ups to spice the game up. All the power ups currently available are pretty standard ones found on every endless runner. -wish it had more different levels. Overall we like it. Needs a lot for stuff to buy and look forward to for it to have a long longevity like subway surfer or minion dash(we think that's what it's called. The one from despicable us).
Reminds us a lot of Crash Bandicoot in the levels where you have to run backwards to avoid the giant snowball or boulder. The character, sounds & enviorment has a very familiar feel & plays very smooth. Fun game, we understand its a endless runner game but they actually made one that runs backward which is different making it harder to see where to go.
Reminds us so much of Crash Bandicoot! It would be cool if you added (The Boulder Jack versions of) CoCo, Crunch and Uka-Uka… Or Aku-Aku :D and if you could add costumes too, that would be awesome.
Not to offend the makers of the game, but the character design looks strangely like Crash Bandicoot if you know what games those are.
L, O, FREAKIN', L!!!!! We're GLAD someone FINALLY released a game that's based on the Crash Bandicoot favorite level, Boulder Dash! It's funny, because this game's name is very similar to the level's name! Only difference? This one's endless, with more than one chance (and a BIRD!). You're probably wondering: "Why didn't Naughty Dog ever come up with a side minigame in one of their Crash games?" Well, now they can't, since bonehead ACTIVISION is now the only one allowed to mess with him, but if you WANTED that in the first place, this is your 18-year dream come true. In fact, we'd say Jack looks very close to Crash (LOL, they should Co-op). Even the jungle vibe is so close to that of Crash's that you'd wonder if you're in tribal heaven. There are stuff that needs to be improved, though. In our opinion, the only thing that needs fixings are the "ducking" arcs and the skull boosts. Anyone can also JUMP also those arcs, and all the skull really does is make Jack smoke his body off with blue stuff. Plus, the boost pads should help to get Jack farther from the boulder, as well as Wilbur the bird thingy. Heck, there should be a system in which we collect special stuff so we can use Wilbur in-game. Also, there should be some more areas to run through, like a snowy mountain area. Anyway, this is the best deal you're gonna get from a studio not working with Activision (and thank GOD that's the case; we can never forgive them for what they did to Spyro).
Like it cause well crash isn't on here but, not a lot more than just another runner for no reason.levels, bosses etc would help out..why not just complete the copy turn it around? A lot more would play.
We want a female. Character to play. Girls play video games too. This game apparently is also a knockoff of a level of a game that we never heard of. Just add a female runner to make this game more feminist. See you next update. Much appriciation Samerisia of The Pink Crusaders Battle Camp.Ps The "Boulder" really does still carry the character 2000mi plus. That still can not be right.
Could be nice to play it wise with different controlls, but well.
At first we really enjoyed playing until we died and used our "free life", we used it and died that second time the game kept going. We finally paused and quit the game when the bulldozer kept going for 2000 meters plus and realized that is not correct and there are some bugs that need to be fixed! Also wish when you have to slide or jump over that the colors would be brighter. We hope you fix them because we could see ourselves playing this game again.
Yes this is a Crash Bandicoot clone, yet different. It'd have been nice if you are able to move freely like its "inspiration," but it is just a plain old 3 lanes boring knockoff.
It's a great game but its so slow on the iPod touch 4 can they plz fix that.
Would be cooler if it were coming from the actual creators.
Its another generic endless runner game. But what makes this one stand out is the Crash Bandicoot rip-off! We smell a lawsuit.
We can't jump, slide, or switch lanes. We swipe and swipe but we can only do it like 2 or 3 times per run but it never happens when we actually need to avoid an obstacle. How can you mess up the game so badly that we have absolutely no control over our character? This is just terrible. Also, people need to shut up about this being a Crash Bandicoot ripoff. It's just a dog thing running through a jungle. Most action games have you running away from a boulder at some point, and just cause it's a red dog doesn't mean it's supposed to be Crash.
This is crash bandicoot people! Wake up! You stole from naughty dog, and thus you need to be sued. Plus your game is terrible and you need to learn to make a good game without copyrighting another one.
Oh wait. This isn't Crash Bandicoot.
We don't like this game. But thanks for the idea of pulling out our PS1.
This is a direct rip off of crash bandicoot. Really.
This game needs some fixing bad we can't swipe to move therefore we can't even play the game we get crushed everytime please fix. We're deleting this game until you fix it.
This is a very great and the thing we love it that the player looks like Crash.
We'll start off by saying: we highly recommend this game! If you enjoyed Crash Bandicoot, you'll really love this game. We very much enjoy the music, and the graphics as well. It's very cute and cartoony, and the colors are very attractive as well; quite vivid and bursting with color. 5 stars, easy.
This game is actually one of the crash bandicoot's levels were you had to run from a giant rock chasing you , we ain't mad , that's cool , but (note to developers) this games suffers from a logical error in coding which lets us have 3.5M coins without paying a single $ , so you'll have to fix that we guess , for your good we mean ;).
We're excited yet insulted lol idk how we feel.
Ads pop up everywhere. Full screen video. Game is played portrait ads come up landscape. Hate it. Deleted.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 113.62 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: PlaySide Studios PTY LTD
Last updated: 25th March 2015 | Genre: Action, Adventure | Developer: PlaySide Studios PTY LTD