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TightWire – Casual Game Review
TightWire is a Casual/Action/Sports game from iBright LLC, first launched in 19th July 2009.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 29+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes TightWire Stand Out
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See if you can balance our fearless daredevil across the wire and prevent him from plummeting to the ground! Both challenging and eye-catching, TightWire will provide endless entertainment for only four quarters.
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Totally accelerometer based, TightWire is a constant battle against realistic gravitational pull! See if you have the steady hand required to make it across in TightWire!!
FEATURES:
- Interactive 3D environment where you control the character as he walks across the wire.
- Watch as he leans and twists in different directions, allowing you to control his body using just the accelerometer.
- High quality animation as the character walks across and even falls off the wire.
- Extremely challenging gameplay that will keep you coming back to better your time and score.
- Walk between buildings from 3 stories to 50 stories in height.
- Polished UI including the ability to save your scores locally and submit them globally.
- Simple controls using only the accelerometer, allowing for minimal effort to get started.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, TightWire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th April 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Bug squashing and performance improvements!
Download & Availability
TightWire 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:
Thought this was the funniest thing ever back in 4th grade.
When we got it reminded us of a similar game.
When this game came out iPhones were a small part of the world. This game brings back good memories.
This game is awful and has no taste.
Somebody write a review on this game. It is a good game you know.
This game is absolutely stupid. It has 30 second videos after every level and the game is just plain out dumb.
This game is absolute crap. The first level is fun for like two seconds then you get board right away. Complete crap.
We understand ads are everywhere to keep the game free but we don't want to watch a 30 second ad after ever level. Games like this make us only want to use our phone as an actual phone.
This game is really fun and recommend it.
It won't even let us get on the game but we played it s long time ago and loved it and we would like to actually play the game.
The game was entertaining for 5 mins.
Crashes when we hit play. Waste of money!! Worth zero stars.
It's funny but the balance is off and the play again button doesn't work.
This is the only game we play on our iPhone. That means something.
We love this app but some times it just sits there after we lose and win. Please fix it.
That fatass needs to stab himself. WASTE OF A DOLLAR!!!!! We could of went to the dollar store and bought somethin useful. POOP, we gotta go.
It's one the most unique game out there and is very responsive. Love it; what's more we got it free during the holidays.
We love this game it is so awesome!for theguys who say past level2 is 2 har they lye. Just try hard and it is easy. We finished level3 in 5min. But still the fat guy is funny when he hits the ground. But we still wonder why the fat guy is on the tight rope anyway.
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Great game! Who made the awesome animations?! Worth every penny.
This is so funny add more Fat people like sumos etc.
This app has us in stitches every time we break the ground, lol.
On the next update you guys should add an option where we can customize the character: Add face from the photo library Change clothing Or something like this Would be great.
If you're goal is to get hooked to a time waster, here it is.
This is a fun and challenging game. We can't give it 5 stars because if you pause it it screws up your game.
Us and our friends love this game, but we're going to get and iPad will it work on that.
This game is very fun, but it needs universal HD support for the iPad too.
The game is very fun and addicting. But there should be a difficulty setting, it starts to get annoying and boring.
Very challenging and hilarious and amusing. It might be a little too hard paying 99 cents was worth it.
Scoring differs greatly between 3G phone and iPhone4. Fix.
Now this is what we call a "fat game".
Great game but we can't get pass level two.
Tough and fun so it's great to us and if there's more to come than we're gonna keep playing till then.
To be honest we love this game but it's so hard to balance!!Ive been stuck on lvl 3 for probably a year.
It is really fun but on our iPod touch 4th generation when you fall it never gives you a restart or quit sign.
This game is super duper funny so we think should buy it, but it is also a stupid advertisement. We think it purposely won't let you beat Level 3 because it wants you to buy the levels.
Its kind of entertaining, but only for a short period of time. We dont recommend it, nor vote against it. It's okay.
We have had this app for a long time. There has been no updates for a year or more.Doesn't seem like there's going to be any time soon.
Just to let you know..we got this app for free a longggg time ago.
Have you ever bought a cheap little souvenir in a giftshop? We all have even though they're tacky and serve no purpose. Well, this app is one of those. It's a cute and offensive impulse buy. This amusing little nicknack app will later have wondering what you were thinking when you bought this? We give it one star for the effort that was put into developing it.
Only good thing about this game is it gets us crack up every time fatty groans & hits the ground. 1st level was ok, can't pass thereafter. Balance does not function properly. Your dollar is only worth if u wanna have a lil laugh.
Extremely hard, you can barely control the person and youre not even balancing it. If you hold it completely flat it will start to tip over, and the whole point of the game just gets boring after a short period of time. Well nice try we guess. We mean at least there aren't any glitches and there are no adds or annoying things like that.
Way too difficult to control many times… Seemingly impossible! Gave up a long time ago. Waste of money.
This is amusing but we cant pass the 2nd frickingggg level!!!!!! >:(.
Not enough levels, no good graphics, and the levels are a little too hard for kids…that's why we're rating this with two stars.
Game was fun for a minute. Level 1 was no problem, can't get anywhere on level 2, to hard to control..not worth the headache to keep trying.
The game is Fun up until you can't win anymore. This developer is joking if they think we're going to pay to unlock new levels.
Fun for a few tries. We don't mind a developer trying to make a few bucks, but no way we're paying to unlock levels.
Difficult to control. An eye sore.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.4
- Size: 22.83 MB
- iOS: 6.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: iBright LLC
Last updated: 13th April 2016 | Genre: Casual, Action | Developer: iBright LLC