Batman, the Dark Knight, defender of Gotham, and the world's fastest man, Barry Allen, aka The Flash, are teaming up in an all new iOS game Batman & The Flash: Hero Run from mobile game maker GREE, Inc. Since The Flash is coming to the CW this fall and Gotham looks to do everything it can to disinterest you in Batman on FOX, of course a smartphone game is the next best thing to reading the comics.
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Batman & The Flash: Hero Run combines the endless runner, coin collecting mechanic of Temple Run and its brethren and the maddening nerdiness of the collectible card game, like Magic: The Gathering. You start the game off as the old caped crusader, barreling through the mean, coin and cone filled streets of Gotham. As you gain experience and coins, you unlock more characters, like The Flash, who is given to you after the end of your tutorial stage, as well as well as Catwoman, The Joker and even Gorilla Grodd! When did you ever think you'd see Gorilla Grodd in anything ever at all? Apparently he's started some trouble and it's up to The Flash to stop him.
Each character has gadget slots, which allows you add and swap out abilities as you gain or buy the cards. Characters' abilities and traits also evolve through the fusing and use of gadgets and other cards, which help to create harder, better, faster, stronger heroes and villains. And unlike other games, Batman & The Flash: Hero Run allows you to shoot down enemies and obstacles by tapping on the screen and hurling Batarangs. It's really quite fun.
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The game also includes social integration and worldwide leaderboards, so you can test your finger-swiping skills against the best from around the globe.
I know I've lost many an hour to the endless runner titles. They're the perfect distillation of the old school arcade game, where it'd offer just enough reward to keep you pumping quarters into the slot to get that next level, beat that next boss. As an achievement nut, the genre certainly knows how to keep me playing for hours on end.
Batman & The Flash: Hero Run is available today for free on the App Store for all Apple products and on Google Play.
