iTunes App Review: “Cars in sandbox: Construction”

Cars in sandbox: Construction – Thematica

Updated: December 18, 2011

ABOUT THE APP:

Cars in sandbox: Сonstruction – interactive game about cars for children age over 2 year.  This game will introduce most interesting category of transport – “construction vehicle” to your children.  Different types of construction vehicle and road-building machinery are represented by toy cars. To show intended purposes of this category of car and it is actions in gaming simulation. What ways all this cars can be used according to its intended purpose and how it helps people in real world. The scene of the game is placed inside the sandbox to make process of learning easy for children. All cars are imitated in the game with excellent laying out of every specific and all of vehicles have accurate image. Our game includes a lot of beautiful animations and video and sound effects.

Characteristics:

• Simple and understandable interface.
• Unusual and interesting method of learning about different types of car
• Sound effects are very similar with real sounds of cars.
• Colorful background for all episodes
• It is really easy to make cars move with simple touching of screen. You can do it in a wink.
• You child can easily rule arm of crane or bucket beam by touching the screen.
• In every episode you need to complete easy mission, which help to discover intended purpose of every cars to your child.
• Completing of any mission is awarded by star.

The list of vehicles:

• Dump truck
• Dumper
• Tractor
• Grader
• Crawler-mounted excavator
• Telescopic handler
• Loader
• Truck crane

MY THOUGHTS:

My almost 5 year old is truck-obsessed.  We have tried other Free apps involving trucks but they didn’t have a good variety of trucks or anything you can do with them.  With “Cars in Sandbox: Construction” there are eight trucks to choose from and you can do a variety of actions with them.  There are tasks to complete such as pushing around objects or lifting them plus there are sounds you can hear from the trucks.  You first pick which truck you want to play with and on the screen it shows you the task you need to do, no reading is really required.  Its funny too, for me I had a little trouble getting the controls down for the trucks but my sons had no problem at all.  They were able to pick it up and play it with no problem and loved the variety.

I definitely recommend this app for any truck-fan as it offers a good variety of actions, selections and sounds!

BUY IT: You can download Cars in sandbox: Construction – Thematica for your iPad for $1.99.

Mom and More Disclosure: I received this app to review in exchange for my honest opinion. Please see my Disclosure Policy.