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Wall-E (Nintendo DS)

Developer: THQ

Publisher: THQ

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 2

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Posted on 27.07.2008 User Icon Posted by James Temperton (Mr. T)
Tag Tags: Wall-E, Nintendo DS
Lousy. That’s a good word to sum up this game. After a couple of hours of play we made a note: ‘boring, we’re just walking around picking up blocks and throwing them’. After a few more hours play we were still doing the same thing. The best thing about this game is the noise it makes when you boot it up, the damned cute little robot says ‘Wall-E’ and we go ‘aaaah, how cute’. Then the game makes us fall asleep.
Whilst the film is quite simply brilliant, somewhat inevitably, the game is a pile of trash. For some reason the developers have chosen to make this little DS title a puzzle game. Most...no wait, all of the puzzles, involve chucking blocks of rubbish at switches. This would be okay (boring, but okay) were it not for the infuriating camera that you have to move yourself. For some reason the the camera always seems to face the wrong way, meaning you’ll miss switches that you need to press in order to progress. It just seems needlessly clumsy and a little bit tedious.

 

The film follows a wonderful little plot and really makes the life of this fairly unimportant seeming robot utterly captivating. In the game he just picks up trash and throws it at stuff. Whilst the narrative of the film is draped around the game in the form of stylishly animated cartoon cut-scenes, the actual gameplay itself is just a case of throwing blocks. Admittedly it does change locale, so you can throw blocks on Earth and later on in space, but that doesn’t really add enough to keep your interest. Chuck in some exciting special bits of trash that explode and disable electronics and stuff and you have enough variety to keep a two year old amused for ten seconds.

Whilst the daft camera is fine in earlier levels, it is almost impossible to work with when enemies are introduced. Some of the puzzles are really clever and take quite a bit of head-scratching to work out, but this involves a lot of camera swiveling. This, surprisingly enough, takes time, something you don’t have a whole lot of when you’re being attacked by evil folk. As a consequence of this, you’ll probably end up dying quite a bit. On each level you have five lives, die five times and you go right back to the start. That would be alright, but most the time you’ll die from falling into a hole that the camera angle didn’t show properly or getting hit by a laser that you could’ve sworn was about two feet in front of you.

 

Gameplay

3

Some of the puzzles are promising and take a fair bit of working out. Add in some occasionally interesting locations and you have something of promise. Then ruin it all with a terrible camera and don’t expand upon the original idea and you have hour upon hour of block throwing. Bad.

Graphics

3

Graphically it looks like someone took the took a pallet containing browns, yellows and blacks and vomited them onto the page in a haphazard and ugly way. The only saving grace are the mildly stylish cut-scenes.

Sound

2

It doesn’t really make any, which is dull.

Value

2

The main game doesn’t take too long and it is more torture than fun. There’s a multiplayer, but that is so terrible you’ll lose all your friends and be left crying in a darkened room.
2

/10

C3 Score We tried to be nice to this game, we really did, but it just annoyed, spat in our face and then kicked us in our special area until we were crying for mercy. It does have some nice ideas, but it only executes them sort of well and then pisses all over them with terrible gameplay mechanics, a camera that is surely the spawn of Satan and graphics that look like someone excreted them. Avoid.
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Ultralordsmow Reply Quote #1 

Ultralordsmow

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I like the AC songs from SSBB :P

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Glad I didn't even think of buying it. Smilie

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NO one wants this game. Could stop lauging at that.

( Edited 28.07.2008 00:30 by Ultralordsmow )

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I wish games like this could be unmade
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Brawl. Music. Orgasmic!

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LOLFACE. Been looking forward to your review Smilie

Nice and funny read Mr James, good stuff. Big lol at the 2/10!
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I swear I find the reviews on shit games far more enjoyable to read. Smilie Good stuff Mr T. How I envy you.
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A star or two would be nice, for anyone reading this ;-)

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I didn't know there was such a score as 2/10. Most places give even the worst of games a 5. Smilie
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Thank-ya-very-much!

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We're not most places. Smilie 5's average...
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The world is going down the drain....... So buy yourself a sweet innertube TODAY!!!!!!!

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Yeah its hilarious and we still follow one of the main rules of gaming:


All liscenced movie games will suck.
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