The slice and dice saga continues as Halfbrick recently announced that a new update of Fruit Ninja will be released this early October in the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon Appstore. Halfbrick would not just bring this fruit-slicing game back on our platforms as the game comes with a new makeover scheme and juicy adventures.
Who would thought that Halfbrick will come out with the idea of dragging Fruit Ninja back on the grid. Some maybe happy for it considering its success, but I'm not sure if it will score a good market like before since it will be competing quite a lot of good games out there, more to say that this fruit-slicing game will have a hard time reclaiming its crown when everyone is too busy stealing booties in Plunder Pirates, raising incredible pets in Amazing Battle Creatures and battling heinous villains in Spider-Man Unlimited. Although the game is used to be everyone's favorite, a casual game yet so challenging, I think Halfbrick needs more than a good title to believe that Fruit Ninja won't end up flopping. By the way, for those who haven't played Fruit Ninja yet, it's some like a shooting gallery type, but rather than tapping to shoot, you'll be swiping your device's screen to slice the fruits.
Beside Rovio's Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja had its glory when it was released way back in April 2010 for iPod Touch and iPhone devices, where it was received well by gamers and enthusiasts alike, racked up more than 500 million downloads worldwide. Few months later its booming success in Apple's iOS version, they followed a release on different other platforms such Windows Phone, Andriod, Symbian OS, Bada OS, etc. It's simple but sleek as most reviewers quoted it, and considering that the game delivers an addictive gameplay in low cost, the reason it hits the benchmarks incredibly good.
So what's surprising about the new update? The game was dressed with new improved menu system, which makes selecting play modes and the right option even more efficient and sleeker, as Halfbrick ensures that the steps between playing, equipping new gear and using social features are all simplified.
Other great improvements are all gameplay related. Before starting, you can now equip yourself with different blades and dojos, which were only cosmetic before. And some of these items comes with a unique effect to improve gameplay experience. For instance, the "Autumn Blade" creates a fruit-swirling tornado every time you slice a pineapple and the "Great Wave" dojo, for instance, periodically spawns 10 fruit at once while. Players can also now track keep track of their scores with the online leaderboards feature as one of the improvements of the game's online feature.
Notably, Halfbrick had worked hard just to add more depth and fun to slicing, pushing the game to a whole different level. Hot or not, who knows? It may reclaim its glory or break a new record, let's just see and find out, but one thing I'm quite sure of, it's a FUN,FUN,FUN game worth trying.
