Crossy Road Review

CROSSY ROAD

Crossy Road is an app on the App Store (for ios), Google Play Store (for Android) and Windows Store. It is rated 9+ on the App Store due to fantasy violence and infrequent swearing. It is about a chicken (but later on one can unlock more characters) who has to cross many roads and rivers. However, it is not as boring as it sounds. In fact, it can get really addictive!

It was released on November 20, 2014 developed by the indie company Hipster Whale. The question of the game is: Why did the chicken cross the road? There are 89 characters to unlock on Crossy Road, 78 which are unlockable from the prize machine (where you have to pay 100 coins to unlock a random character), and 11 that are Secret Characters which can only be unlocked through various unique methods, like running into them while playing. For example, in order to get the unique 'Hipster Whale' you need to land on him in the river.

These are the characters:

Unlockable Characters

·         Chicken

·         Festive Chicken

·         Fortune Chicken

·         Mallard

·         Baby Duck

·         Emo Goose

·         Kiwi

·         Poopy Pigeon

·         Giddy Goat

·         Fluffy Sheep

·         Black Sheep

·         Cow

·         Mad Bull

·         Big Fat Pig

·         Thoroughbred

·         Unihorse

·         Scruffy Dog

·         Marmalade Dog

·         Pew Die Pug

·         Doge

·         Wolf

·         Lucky Cat

·         Unlucky Cat

·         Tabby Cat

·         Brown Bunny

·         Grey Bunny

·         Lovely Bunny

·         Capybara

·         Tree Frog

·         Swamp Frog

·         Desert Frog

·         Jungle Frog

·         Penguin

·         Floppy Fish

·         Fast Tortoise

·         Swift Snail

·         Flea

·         Crazy Ol' Ben

·         Celebrity

·         Hot Shot

·         Baller

·         Mad Wizard

·         The Dark Lord

·         Grave Digger

·         Ghost

·         Vampire

·         Frankenstein

·         Zombie

·         Specimen 115

·         Dragon

·         Android Robot (Android Only)

·         Kangaroo

·         Platypus

·         Echidna

·         Kookaburra

·         Wombat

·         Koala

·         Dingo

·         Cockatoo

·         Emu

·         XI

·         #TheDress

·         Llama

·         Butterfly

·         Badger

·         Fox

·         Squirrel

·         Queen's Guard

·         Bobby

·         Piper

·         Chimney Sweep

·         Fancy Lady

·         Fancy Gent

·         Schoolgirl

·         Fish 'N Chips

·         Forget-Me-Not

·         Epoch

·         Disco Zoo

Secret Characters

·         Hipster Whale

·         Gifty

·         Crab

·         Drop Bear

·         Cai Shen

·         Andy Sum

·         Ben Weatherall

·         Matt Hall

·         Phone Box

·         Nessie

·         Leprechaun

Each character is unique in some way, like Crazy Ol' Ben often makes a funny comment during the game.