Rum Run - Windows Phone Game Review

Rum Run

Rum Run is a new game for our Windows Phone and nosotros take been able to become our hands on an advanced copy. Rum Run is a game that tests your skills equally a Captain on the high seas besides every bit your skills as a trader.

The game premise is that you have to supply nutrient to a hamlet to assist feed 100% of the population. You buy and trade nutrient and rum to finance your operation and provide food to the hungry villagers. You take pirates roaming the waters who will raid your ships of rum and storm fronts that volition destroy nutrient shipments.

Rum Run may not be an action packed game but it does have a fast pace to it. You lot'll have to stay on your toes to keep the village fed and avoid running dry out on funds.

The main menu for Rum Run is set in the cargo hold of your ship. Lean your Windows Phone this fashion or that and the crates shift as if the ship is riding the waves. Options on the menu include playing a new game, viewing your gaming options, viewing the game stats, and visit the upgrade store.

Rum Run Menu

Game play takes place in 5 locations that are spread beyond 3 maps. Each map location is progressively unlocked and challenging.

Rum Run's game screen is laid out with your silver coin count in the upper left corner, your rum and food inventory in the lower left corner, and your village stats in the lower right corner. One port will be where food is produced and purchased from and another for rum. The village you are supplying food too will accept a bar meter over it. As y'all provide food to the village, the bar meter will fill up up and as the food is consumed, the bar will decrease. If yous don't provide food quick enough, the meter runs dry and the games over.

To navigate your send, simply tap on your ship and elevate a line to the port yous want to canvass to. Purchasing options for rum and food volition appear as you lot travel to brand those purchases. As you travel to the village, you'll see similar options with regards to how much food you want to deliver.

There are additional ports on the map that will take placards announced showing what that particular port is looking to buy. And that is how you keep a steady menstruation of income. Purchase food/rum at a low price, sell to other ports at a higher price for a nice little profit. Use the profit to fund the food headed to the hamlet.

Rum Run Gaming Screens

Along the way, you'll earn credits that can exist used in the upgrade screen to enhance your ships speed, capacity and buy additional ships.

The game concept is uncomplicated but the claiming comes with the pace of things. You accept to maintain a constant supply of food to the village to avoid the timer bar from timing out. As you play Rum Run, storm systems and pirates announced that volition slow things down. You lot'll have to navigate your merchandise routes to avoid these dangers.

Rum Run is a nicely animated, challenging game for your Windows Phone that does have its challenges. It takes on a bit of a management challenge when you buy and sail multiple ships. While I liked Rum Run, there is some room for comeback. For starters, the game lacks a help section. The game isn't difficult to pick upward and y'all are taken through a tutorial before diving into the total game. But a help section for reference wouldn't exist a bad touch.

Lastly, I was really hoping to practice ship battles with the pirate ships. As is, if your ship makes contact with the pirates yous lose some of your rum cargo automatically. It would be nice if you could battle for a risk to save your cargo. Maybe even plunder the pirates for actress coin.

When all is said and done, Rum Run is a fun game for your Windows Phone. The game is due out any day now and once nosotros spot it live in the Windows Phone Shop, we'll let you know. There volition exist a trial version available to let y'all try things out before buying and the full version of Rum Run is expected to run $.99.