January 24th, 2012 | By admin
The most exhilarating running game on the App Store. Test your reflexes as you race down ancient temple walls and along sheer cliffs. Swipe to turn, jump and slide to avoid obstacles, collect coins and buy power ups, and see how far you can run!
How to play:
With randomly generated levels and an arcade-like high-score focus, it might be impossible to write a very detailed walkthrough, but there are very simple steps that will help you achieve the highest score possible.
1. Get Comfortable
The easiest way to earn a high score is really a matter of comfort and helping your hand survive a record-setting run. You will absolutely cramp up if you don’t hold your phone/iPad properly. With all the tilt control needed to navigate Temple Run’s twisting platforms, hold your phone improperly will inhibit you from making it through a long run.
Hold your phone or iPad with your hand wrapped around it horizontally, with thumbs on the side. Determine which hand you’re most comfortable swiping side-to-side and up and down with and then hold the phone with the opposite hand.
2. Upgrades
When you’re first starting, don’t worry yourself with the character you’re playing as or single-use powerups like the resurrection or boost. Those can come in handy later when you’re really pushing for a leaderboard topping run, but in the beginning, it’s best to upgrade with the coin magnet powerup and the double value upgrade. Switch off upgrading each one so that you can accumulate as many coins as you can as you upgrade.
As you progress you should unlock upgrades in the following order:
a. Coin Magnet/Double Value
b. 50 Coin
c. Invisibilty
d. 250 M Boost.
3. Dodge (Up or Down)
Many of the obstacles that Temple Run would like you to slide under can be jumped over, so it’s a good idea to be prepared to jump more than slide. In fact, a high score is readily attainable if your muscle memory defaults to jumping over more obstacles than sliding under.
Also remember that until you reach extremely high distances, Temple Run will not mix up the obstacles one right after the other. Basically if you see roots, expect more roots in the short term. If you see flames, the same can be said.
4. Survive
While the resurrection single-use powerup might actually refute that claim, it stands to reason that you should be much more concerned with your well-being in Temple Run than with the coins that might stray from the center of the path.
It can be tempting to make a big effort to tilt your phone side to side to grab the odd strand of coins, but in reality, there’s more profit in a longer run than there is in risking survival for extra coins. If you’re really interested in earning a ton of dough, focus on the obstacles in front of you and stick to the middle path (unless the middle path is missing).
Once you’ve got the double coins upgrade, this advice will really ring true as the more valuable coins don’t appear until after 1500 meters.
5. Slow It Down
As you run farther, slow yourself down to make it easier on yourself! You can trip yourself on the low roots, but don’t trip twice back to back or the monkeys will catch you, so you have to be careful. Another way to slow yourself down is to swipe against a wall.
Once you have your upgrades maxed out is when you can start using resurrection at 500 coins a pop. Killing yourself once the wings start to blink will resurrect you at a crawl speed the same speed that you started with! Do it fast by jumping into the water, plowing into a obstacle, or letting the monkeys catch you or else you can risk dying just after your wings are gone!
You can resurrect back to back once you hear the “ting” sound and the wings icon lights up again under the coins count. To resurrect, double-tap the screen, but make sure you do it when you have a little space ahead of you so that you don’t die immediately.
