Game Juice Energy Soda Review

Game Juice markets itself as being the gap between soda and energy drinks, which is something Mtn. Dew did with MDX, and something Coke has with Vault. So it's safe to say that Game Juice isn't alone, and despite MDX not being around anymore, Vault is sure to be tough competition. And with a name like "Game Juice" and a bottle like this one, I'm betting on Vault. The name implies the content of juice, but there's none, so we're left to assume that it implies that this is the juice to gamers, which I'll admit is clever in that sense, but it is sure to scare off some with the latter of the name. Its bottle is a slender sixteen point nine oz., and its label isn't very tall nor is it very good. The bare gray looks decent enough with the green and black, but other other then some text and some guy wearing a hoodie, there's nothing exciting and makes you wish the company licensed some video game properties to feature.

Apple with Ginger is the alleged flavour, and upon first sip that's somewhat confirmed. Initially, the liquid is watery and syrupy sugary, vastly similar to those cheap Kool Aid Burst knock offs. A lightly tart apple is the only flavour to the sugar water, and it's kept overly syrupy to the point where it goes beyond possibly being a guilty pleasure. The apple is highly artificial tasting and it lacks any sort of crisp nature or sourness in favour of focus on the sweetness. The experience goes on not much longer once it gets overbearing(which is quick), but it ends so thickly and cloyingly syrupy that each sip becomes more and more of a chore. There's a sugar enamel left coating your teeth, tongue, your entire mouth, and within the walls of the glaze is a heavily compressed form of what we had previously worked so hard to get down. Overall, while Game Juice really wasn't that bad, taste-wise, its syrupy sweetness was so exhausting and unbearable that I kept getting flashbacks to drinks like amp Tradin Paint.

Game Juice isn't an energy drink, but instead an energy soda(and last time I checked soda is a drink), so less ingredients and amounts was expected, but I would have never expected the caffeine content to be so low. Eighteen milligrams per eight oz., which factors to be thirty six per bottle, which is low for a soda in general, not to mention an energy soda. Putting into perspective that Diet Coke contains thirty one milligrams eight oz., it really makes you wonder why they even bothered adding caffeine in the first place. Other ingredients include: taurine, inositol, and B vitamins. In the end, there are far better, and by better I mean better everything, energy sodas available for less than what I paid for Game Juice; $1.98.

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