Temple Run: Oz
Description
The fourth instalment in the Temple Run series, Oz is an auto-run platformer themed on Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful, the initial setting a jungle environment. We play as Oscar Diggs (but three other avatars can be used, if purchased with the in-game currency, that is, coins — collected in game or bought with real money).
The gameplay consists in an array of dangers and obstacles, visible more or less in advance. Gaps to jump across, huge stumps or stone structures to slide below, carnivorous plants doing their all to savour a bit of us to leave hungry, paths to take and false paths to avoid since trying to take these will make our pursuers closer. A double mistake causes us be caught the demonic winged beings in pursuit of us, fully running into an obstacle causes death likewise, and so does falling into pits (some of which following from sudden There is no final goal to the run but to achieve an high score; to this purpose, power-ups (such as a score multiplier and a magnet attracting coins), skills and items, all available in the in-game Shop, can be employed.
The game controls with leftwards, rightwards, up and down swipes, plus device tilting (needed to gather coins). Achievements are presented in the form of 'challenges', weekly variable and fixed ('legendary challenges', like to collect 2,500 coins in a single play, to run for 160,934,000 metres — the Super Man challenge —, up to the Impossible challenge: to score 100 million points in a single run).
