Common Sense Media Review
By Chris Morris
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
High-flying extreme sports game with realistic physics.
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Bike Baron
What's It About?
Bike Baron players race a motorcycle along a course, making jumps and avoiding obstacles. They have to use the iDevice's tilt controls to get additional distance from their jumps, but need to be positioned properly to land. Gravity works as it does in the real world. Crashing or running into an object will throw the driver from the motorcycle. Players earn stars by completing courses in certain time frames.
Is It Any Good?
The fun with most physics-based sports game is seeing how far you can fling your onscreen persona when you crash. That's true in BIKE BARON, but the game isn't limited to just that aspect. The courses are entertaining. There's plenty of diversity. And the difficulty ramps up at a good pace. The level editor is a nice addition to supplement the included 40 levels, but downloading the levels others have created is overly tricky (you have to go to a company blog to find codes for levels, then download them blind). Overall, this is a silly, fun game that proves to be a fun diversion, though not something that will become an obsession for most.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Expand on laws of physics by offering real-world examples of things shown in the game (i.e., if an object is traveling fast enough, it can go upside down momentarily in a loop).
Ask kids what consequences they'd need to consider if the game were real life. Which parts of Bike Baron make it clear it's just a game?
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects : Science : physics
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : analyzing evidence , hypothesis-testing , problem solving
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- Release date : October 20, 2011
- Genre : Racing Games
- Publisher : Mountain Sheep
- Version : 1.01
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.2 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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