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Radioactive IT Review: Scribblenauts - What's on your mind?
Radioactive IT Review: Scribblenauts - What's on your mind? | Review: Scribblenauts - What's on your mind? |
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| by Mike Bantick | ||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, 30 September 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
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 Scribblenauts is a land mark video game, this is without doubt. A DS title letting you use your imagination to solve problems, that will quickly attract a crowd to help get you through the over 200 challenges on offer.Featured Whitepaper
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The basic concept can be explained in only a few sentences. Players must aid Maxwell (the on screen character) in his quest to grab star shaped ‘Starites’. One Starite is hidden or visible on each of the 220 small 2D levels scattered over ten different Scribblenauts worlds. There are also 30 extra unlockable levels. To help Maxwell, players need to use the right tools for the job, but what are the right tools? Well that is up to you. Any object you can think of can be typed into the Scribblenauts QWERTY keyboard, and presto! appears in-game. As I said in the preview : This is illustrated well in the opening level of a star atop a tree. Entering ‘Axe’ will give Maxwell the ability to topple the tree and get to the star, equally setting “fire” to the tree achieves the same result. Alternatively, the conservationists amongst us may take a less environmentally impacting approach, giving Maxwell a “jet pack” or “Wings” for limited flight up onto the tree. When a noun is brought to life, simply dropping it on Maxwell enables him to wield it, sometimes multiple ways, options which are covered by a further graphical sub-menu. Solving each level under par (the number of objects used) in inventive, passive or stylish ways will give Maxwell Ollers. These are spent on new Maxwell avatars, background tunes or – most importantly – unlocking new worlds for Maxwell to explore. The game includes interactions between objects, both behavioural and physical. But before you jump to conclusions – you dirty minded so and so – what we mean is that, for example, mortal enemies will attack each other (behavioural) and flames will melt ice (physical). The physics engine is adequate, sometimes a bit jumpy, causing objects to collapse or fall when there really should not have been reason to do so. Space on each level is often cramped, making position of larger objects sometimes troublesome. Much of the space issue though comes down to design, forcing players to come up with more compact solutions to a given situation. You just cannot use a Sherman Tank in every challenge.  CONCLUDED on Page 2 |
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