In the latest chapter of “Oh, My Gosh, How Can That Be!"" this year marks the ten-year anniversary of the launch of Halbrick’s Jetpack Joyride. Yes, the thus far most successful adventure of Barry Steakfries is about to be a decade old. Do you old-school TouchArcadians remember when it was originally called Machine Gun Jetpack" Those were the days. Who knows if it would have reached the type of success that it has if they didn’t change the name a few weeks before release. Anyway, over the course of the last ten years, Jetpack Joyride has received a ludicrous amount of new content, new features, special events, and so much more. I mean it gets updated pretty much at least once a month, which is crazy. But at its heart, Jetpack Joyride is still a 10-year-old game that is starting to show its age, and so similar to how they launched the revamped Fruit Ninja 2 last year to mark the 10-year anniversary of the original game’s launch, Halfbrick has just put out Jetpack Joyride 2 in soft launch in select regions. Here’s the trailer.
As an aside, if you aren’t a regular watcher of the Barry Vlogs over on the Halfbrick YouTube channel, you’re missing out. They are hilarious. Anyway, as with Fruit Ninja 2, Halfbrick isn’t trying to completely reinvent the wheel with Jetpack Joyride 2 and you can expect that same action-oriented cave flyer core gameplay, but they do introduce some new concepts to that core gameplay t...