By Joe Jeffrey
New mobile phone game shows Top Gear hasn’t lost caravan obsession following departure of Clarkson, Hammond and May
BBC’s Top Gear may have lost its three longstanding presenters recently, but it certainly hasn’t lost its penchant for destroying caravans, with a new game released on Friday (26 June) picking up where Clarkson et al left off.
The game, entitled Top Gear: Caravan Crush and available now on all Android and iOS devices, does exactly what it says in the (unoriginal) title with one main purpose: launch a car across the Top Gear airstrip and bounce it into as many caravans as possible.
Upon making contact with each caravan, a player’s car will be launched further along the airstrip with the emphasis being on destroying as many caravans as possible whilst achieving the furthest distance travelled in your vehicle.
Oddly enough, there does seem to be some skill attached to the game; when readying your vehicle for launch by dragging it back using your finger, timing is essential in order to launch it onto an oscillating ramp which moves up and down, providing you with more travel distance the higher the ramp is positioned.
When your vehicle is sailing through the air, you are given the option to deploy various attached devices, including jet engines, to improve upon travel distance with the additional benefit of gaining more distance.
There are also numerous side challenges to complete, which provide you with more coins on top of those earned, dependent on the distance reached, with which you can buy ‘Topgrades’ to upgrade your vehicle and tweak the spec in order to travel further or simply add to the destruction en route.
We here at CaravanTimes are partial to playing the odd game on our mobile phone devices to whittle away the time, but having checked out Top Gear: Caravan Crush, we’re not convinced many of Top Gear’s fan base will have the ability to adopt both hand and eye coordination simultaneously in order to get to grips with this basic Angry Birds rip-off.
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