Bobby Carrot Forever (iPhone) Review

Costas Stephanides’s Review

Bobby's back baby

It took Bobby a while to make it to the iPhone but he's been here for a few weeks now. Bobby Carrot comes from German developers FDGSoft and I don't think many US gamers would have seen Bobby from his younger days on java mobile. As we've previously said, "Bobby Carrot is to mobile gaming as Mario is to consoles."

Bobby Carrot Forever has been available on standard handsets since last year and is actually the fifth (and final) game in the series. Basically this means that FDGSoft have been doing this for a while and as they say practice makes perfect. Check out the series and our reviews here.

The aim of the game is to guide Bobby around 72 levels of spike crushing, tractor driving puzzles while collecting carrots. Time is not of the essence here. This is a puzzle game requiring some decent forethought and strategy rather than fast fingers and quick reactions. The levels are littered with traps but it should still draw you in for another attempt. Figuring out how to make this work for the iPhone must have been one of the main reasons for the delay but it has been worth the wait.

The graphics are clean and crisp and more importantly the controls work nicely. The game uses the touch screen only and after a recent update, you can now swipe your up/down/left/right moves along the screen (rather than pressing in specific points).

Fans of Bobby will love this new version and it's great to see that the developers are listening to the user feedback and making free updates to fine tune the game. There are 72 levels and would expect a whole lot more than the advertised 15 hours to complete the game.

Bobby Carrot Forever on java did have extra download packs and assuming this is a hit on iPhone, there's a good chance that a few more levels will come out in due course.