App Review: Parcours.robo is like RoboRally… if you don’t like RoboRally

Parcours.robo really, really wants to be RoboRally, the well-received 1994 board game from Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield. Whether because the developer, Impara GmbH, didn’t want to negotiate for the actual board game licensing rights or for another reason, the game plays a lot like RoboRally, but it’s actually a sad little clone that also makes me really, really want it to be RoboRally.

It’s not a bad game, but Parcours.robo’s biggest impact is that it makes me realize that what the App Store needs is an official RoboRally port, full of the board game’s crazy “automated” movement; it could be amazingly animated on an iPad without losing any of the tension in the game’s secret planning. Until that happens, though, read on to see what Parcours.robo has to offer us today.

Gallery: Parcours.robo iPhone app