RGB Express Guide
Are you ready for another mind twister? Excited to get those creative juices flowing? Well buckle up because its almost time to put on your management cap as you carefully plan delivery routes across different cities. There are no fancy splash screens, annoying popups or confusing menus, it is ready to go as soon as it is launched. This really makes me appreciate how well the game is coded and optimized. I think this adds to the playability feature especially while playing in short stints. In contrast, you can play for as long as you want, since there is no annoying need to wait or buy energy, health or fuel tanks to keep playing. Well the only limitation for now are the 240 levels which aren’t too many, but developers at Bad Crane are working to bring more levels as part of a FREE upgrade down the road.The game itself is simple to play, tapping on a delivery truck allows you to map a route for it. All you need to do is to pick up coloreds shipment and drop them off at corresponding buildings/locations. As you progress through the game, the challenges intensify from handling more trucks, avoiding crashes, operating draw bridges to effectively utilizing all the available tarmac. The graphics again are neat, having a simple lego feel to the environment.The further players get in RGB Express, the more complicated the puzzles get and later levels throw obstacle in the player's way like bridges and buttons which can lower or raise a bridge.
Some levels have multiple bridges that require players to think about which path will result in the correct bridge being raised. For instance, if players hit an orange button which raises the orange bridge before hitting the red button to raise a red bridge that is before the orange bridge, the truck may run into the red bridge and players would have to retry the level.The game starts off with easy puzzles, which will teach you the many tricks, that help you solve the more difficult ones. There are bridges, buttons, sometimes you must swap cargo from one truck to another. Eventually you will meet the mysterious white car! With several different coloured trucks in play, you must therefore increasingly make clever use of crossings and corners, turning routes and roadways into a kind of multicoloured geometric spaghetti. Later, switches enter the mix, raising and lowering drawbridges as a little truck trundles over them; white trucks arrive that are capable of carrying boxes of different colours; and drop-off zones appear, enabling a box to be strategically dumped on the roadside, for later pick-up.Eventually, you'll find yourself staring at seemingly impossible set-ups of trucks, roads, buildings, and boxes, experimenting with crazy, convoluted routes, in order to get your boxes to their destinations without any disasters.
After some time, players will unlock the white truck which can pick up any colored block. Oftentimes players will need to pick up different blocks in a particular order to deliver them correctly. For instance, the truck picks up a red block and then a blue block, it must deliver the blue block first. Some levels have the white truck and other colored trucks, which means players will have to plan which blocks to pick up with which trucks. This makes for exciting planning and puzzle solving. If the level is too hard to solve, players have five hints they can use which fills in some of the path. More hints can be obtained with an in app purchase.RGB Express includes 240 levels, spanning six different sets which can be unlocked with coins players earn by completing levels. The game later adds a white truck which matches every color, drawbridges you can open or close, and the ability to drop a crate for later pick-up, but there are a lot of puzzles with the basics. Most of the time, in the early puzzles, you plot an efficient course for one truck, and then you figure out how to accommodate it pretty easily. Then that doesn't work, and you notice something--maybe it's that you can never drive though a three-way intersection that has a crate off one branch without getting that crate. Very gradually, you accumulate a stable of such deductions which help with later levels.
Each level set has four cities named for real world cities like Montreal and Seattle. This adds a little charm to already solid gameplay.On the city select screen, each city is represented by a colorful building with 10 windows and one sky light. Each window represents a level in the city and will light up if a player has completed that level. The sky light illuminates when all of the levels in that city have been completed. This is a very interesting way to show visually how many levels are in each city and whether or not player have completed all of the levels yet.Also on the city select screen, a little red truck sits on the road in front of the buildings and stays on the left side of the screen when players swipe through the menu in sequential order. When players swipe the opposite direction, the truck switches to the right side of the screen as if the truck is revisiting the cities. This is a cool way to show where players are in each menu and makes something as simple as a selection screen a lot more visually entertaining.
