The story in Space Bikers from Chillingo goes that an alien ship crashes in your backyard and small aliens need your help collecting things to get back home. To collect the things you guide them as they ride their space bikes around the levels and run them into the things they need to collect.

The game is basically a 2D side-scrolling platformer with 3D graphics and isn’t accelerometer aware so it can only be played in one orientation. The 3D graphics aren’t fantastic and have a lot of jagged edges but they’re better than I’ve seen from some other games of late.

The sound is fairly basic as well. There’s music, not all of which I cared for, and there are a few sound effects sprinkled throughout the title. None of them are particularly inspiring and really don’t add all that much to the game.

In the game you’ve got a pretty basic interface where you can bounce either the front of back wheel (or wheels in case of the 4-wheeler) move forward and back and of course change the direction your character is facing. By using this controls properly you’ll guide your biker through an unbelievable obstacle course to pass each level.

There are some pretty cool levels and you can even flip your guy upside down and have him land on his wheels. But really my favorite part of the game, which has nothing to do with the actual goal of the game, was to ram my bikers into something so hard and in the right position as to make their heads pop off and fly away. Perverse pleasure indeed!

In between the chances to decapitate your rider are a series of mini games. These are by far the most pointless piece of the Space Biker puzzle. I have no idea why they are there except perhaps as an attempt to add value and diversity, which they do not. The mini games are taken from classics like flipping cards to remove pairs, sliding picture puzzles etc. Honestly the game would have been better off without them in my opion because the time to make them could have been used to focus on the core game and make that far more solid than it is.

Overall Space Bikers isn’t a bad game. It’s mildly fun and interesting and if you can find other ways to entertain yourself, like decapitating your bikers then it could be worth a look. I can’t say that’s it’s so compelling that I Will continue to play it over and over, but I might sneak in for some fun every couple months.