More Trucks - By Duck Duck Moose

More Trucks - By Duck Duck Moose is a fun sequel to the hit app, Trucks, also developed by Duck Duck Moose.

My son and I loved this first app - a children’s interactive application allowing one to explore five different truck and car-themed activities, as seen here in the review of this app.

More Trucks includes four new scenes that children will also have fun with. Nice children’s narration will explain how these sections work, and parents and children alike will enjoy the familiar nursery rhyme-themed classical music that Duck Duck Moose is known for. These sections are uniformly bright and colorful, including the same stylized looks that fans have come to expect from these applications.

Here, children get a chance to ride along on a fire truck, putting out fires with the tap and drag of a finger. Controls include driving forward and back through an urban landscape looking for fires that one puts out with the use of a fire hose that players can control by tapping the hose or truck as well as a button found at the bottom of the page. Sounding the fire horn is also an option.

Another activity of interest is a junkyard, where children are able to move cars over to an area that includes a magnet, allowing children to raise and stack each of these cars, ultimately including a cute and fun surprise that crushes these cars in a way most satisfying.

A construction section is also included, giving children the chance to use a crane to move and stack boxes that a wrecking ball can then knock down.

Monster Trucks may bechildren’s first experience with a platformer game as they have a chance to drive a variety of charmingly styled monster trucks over different fun and colorful backdrops, collecting coins along the way. Functions include driving forward, reverse and jumping the car into the air to avoid objects or collect stars in the sky as well as honking the horn.

Trucks in this game must be unlocked in order to play, and it is not clear to me if all stars must be collected to continue on to other vehicles. I am honestly not a fan of locked content in an app geared towards toddlers and preschool aged children, as I can see parents who sometimes use apps to distract children as they try to prepare meals or the like spending too much time helping their children succeed at unlocking levels.

Likewise, I was not a huge fan of the fact that the car can sometimes flip over onto its back, getting stuck as an adult patiently needs to try to flip the car over to resume play - a detail that young children partial to.

By far, my favorite areas of this app are the dumpsite and construction area as they are truly intuitive and open-ended. These sections alone will be able to hold children’s attention for a nice amount of time.

While I do find elements of the monster-truck’s arcade game play to be problematic for the youngest of app users who gravitate toward Duck Duck Moose apps, I do think that adults and children will find other areas of this app quite fun and entertaining for their families.