Gator Alley Review

Michael Futter

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Grunt… splish!

Gator Alley is a game of Marco Polo for iOS devices. The purpose of the game is to move your finger around the screen, avoiding the ever-increasing number of alligators. If you come into contact with an alligator or lift your finger, you will lose life. Occasionally, frogs will land on the moving lily pad. Touching one will increase your life by 25%.

There are no difficulty levels and no leaderboards, Game Center or Open Feint support. The only reason to play this game multiple times is better your score and, even then, you likely will not want to return to Gator Alley given the spotty hit detection. More than once, I felt that the hit box on the gators was larger than their image, as I lost life, seemingly without coming into contact with a reptilian foe.


There is no music and the only sounds are water splashing and alligators grunting. The game is completely bare bones.

Given the number of games available in the App Store, it’s hard to recommend Gator Alley, even at $.99. Perhaps if improvements are implemented in a later release, this will change. As it stands now, though, you are better off investing your time and money elsewhere.

Review copy provided by publisher.
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Mike is the Reviews Editor and former Community Manager for this fine, digital establishment. You can find him crawling through dungeons, cruising the galaxy in the Normandy, and geeking it out around a gaming table.

10 Comments

  1. Bought the game… Like it. Kind of addicting. I didn’t realize you were so uptight???

    • LOL. I’m glad you are liking it. I just didn’t think it held up against other games in the App Store. There are a huge number of games between this and Angry Birds/Fruit Ninja. I played a few times, the game told me I was an expert and that was it.

  2. good app. Bad review!

  3. Show us a picture of your high score! Doubt the 134 seconds one above is yours. I can’t get past 78 seconds.

  4. Here’s a twitpic. Mine is not the 134. It’s 122 and a bit. Still told me I was an expert. http://t.co/Gjp8OOW

  5. was looking for new apps and i saw this. i thought ill think about it, im kinda glad i avoided this one. nice review. hope you review more apps in the future.

    • We try to review everything we get. Stay tuned for more iOS reviews as we get codes.

  6. Nice hat!

  7. WE LISTENED!

    GATOR ALLEY NOW HAS GAME CENTER INTEGRATED!

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