Life can be a lot less bother when you hover.
As modes of transport go, jetpacks are often more about pluck than precision.
It is undoubtedly my second-favourite video game jetpack.
It is a boost universally acknowledged, then: jetpacks rule.
Since those brief cameos, the real-life technology seems to have stalled.
Jetpacks have acquired a different meaning, redeployed as sarcastic shorthand for stymied utopia.
(As the excellent Scottish indie band has it:We Were Promised Jetpacks!)
In 2010,Dark Voidtried to inject the then-fashionable heavy-footed skirmishing of Gears of War with some aerial pizazz.
The sound effect is usually some variation of a fire extinguisher blast.
What have I missed?
The cartoony slickness of addictive endless runner Jetpack Joyride, where your pack is both transport and weapon.
The abrupt, insectoid leaps of the Jet Trooper in the first brace ofStar Wars Battlefrontgames.
