The Eurocom developer studios in Derby that produced the G-Force movie hosted the preview of the embodiment of the spirit of a G-Force guinea pig translated into a 3D game. The fun combats combined with clever puzzles and rewarding experiences turn the game into a good fellowship with the blockbuster movie.
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The main character is represented by a guinea pig which is known to be in real life an oversized rat that lives in its own filth, whereas in the game it is equipped with high-tech weaponry with jetpacks wrapped around its furry back. The game presents a community of such ‘rats’ which have the fate of the planet on their paws and one has to be grateful that it happens only in the game. But next to this, the G-Force is displaying a lot of fun with an exciting experience in being engaged in combats, and well-created puzzles.

The duration of the game is about 10 hours and you can play as the character called Darwin, who is the G-Force leader caught in an action combined with a big amount of story, while being carried in a constant back-an-forth moves that are supposed to point you in the right direction. In all these motions you are allowed to jump and shoot the objectives that come into your way being ready at the same time to measure your brain with a lot of puns and one-liners while you are engaged in your quest.

The action of the game is satisfying enough, considering that right from the beginning you are provided with a tutorial that guides you through the bases of your moves revealing a strong control system presented in the G-Force game. You don’t have however the options to choose among a variety of weapons, but the way in which you have to face your enemies requires from you skills of strategy. When you are not engaged in a battle against monstrous microwaves, you have to face the solving of a puzzle rendered for instance, by finding ways to open locked doors or to figure out how to hack sophisticated computer equipment.

In the above described parts there is an element that makes the game more fun to be, as it is with controlling your fly pal called Mooch, which is able to fly all over and to penetrate through all kind of things in order to gain some power-ups. The pace of your moves can be slowed down to help you pass through edgy situations, a feature that shows its efficiency also late in the game. If you play G-Force in small parts, it can give you more joyful experience than if you play it for long stretches. Not to mention that the visuals are very well rendered, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 offering good packages with two pairs of 3D glasses that provide a cool reality effect to your jumping and flying.

Even if you consider yourself a veteran in game playing and think that this game doesn’t provide too much fun, you still have to try it and see that the explosive battles and tricky puzzles offer enough satisfaction to see G-Force as a new experience in the game fields.

Even if one gets involved in the ‘Splosion Man playgame or simply watches it being played, the Twisted Pixel’s release on Xbox Live Arcade looks to be one of its best games up to date. ‘Splosion Man is a single-player game with a multiplayer option that offers funny moments to deal with.
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The game delivers you the controls for a person who due to some experiments has the ability to explode himself into pieces that carry him through higher levels of the game. These levels are in a number of 50 and allow you to exploit and explode your skills delivering the possibility of blasting yourself through many obstacles while racing for the exit. As the game advances the challenging is getting higher, you are enabled to have a perfect timing for your explosions, thus blasting off the obstacles or travel over distances that seem hard to be otherwise covered.

Though the game presents itself as a platform playing, the gamers are advised to approach a style closed to a timing-based puzzler. Since you are provided with less direct control on ‘Splosion Man you have to accurately time your explosions and have good reaction reflexes when it comes to overcoming the obstacles. The action of the game displays itself pretty fun and rewarding to keep your attention on while blasting your way to reach the end of each level. The fun part comes together with the character’s actions, such as performing a flying through the air pretending to act as a Kung Fu fighter, or the moments when he stretches out his arm looking like an airplane ready to take off.

These actions are performed on a background which reveals scientists being killed in an ejection of steaks and meats to replace the blood and fat enemies who are picked up on the sounds of “Everybody Loves Donuts”, all these making the game a delicious place to be part of. The ‘Splosion Man’s humor sent out by comic situations helps to ease up the frustration that a player will feel while facing some absurd difficult sections.

The critics have shown agreements and disagreements on the aspect of the game. For instance, IGN praises the humor and personality of the game offered by the independent developers, with the new videogame character that can easily become endeared by the one who is in the action of the ever more surprising game. From ‘Team Xbox’ the critic agrees with the visual style that contains funny moments conferring an acute sense of delivering hilarity. Whereas the ‘Eurogamer’ sees with the progression of the game a structure that starts to be revealed having a feel of lumpiness, while out of the three chapters delivered only the first one defines the concept of the game.

Yes, it is maybe so, that Nancy Drew used to be your mother’s detective heroine, but while stepping in the world of Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships, you have to forget about this. The team from “Her Interactive” has turned the game into a collection of puzzles and mystery offering a package suitable to be played with family and friends. The action of this game takes place in Bahamas, due to a winning trip that Drew and her friends have won. Upon their arrival, one of Drew’s friends has been kidnapped, and Drew is forced to solve a mystery in order to get her friend back. The mystery is revealed to be the discovery of a long lost treasure that once belonged to a Spanish fleet. This is the pretext of the game to begin solving some interesting puzzles, while you are carried through unusual situations; no, not that kind of danger or menace.
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You are supposed to start your quest for clues, at the same time facing common obstacles that stay in your way. In your quest and trial you meet a lot of characters who are there to help you, but only after you help them first. The interesting thing is that an entire variety of things to do are offered to put your skills (navigating a map, decipher messages) at work. Unfortunately, the puzzles are not working that well, and beside this there are some reflex-based puzzles that test your ability to hit targets, and in case you are a slower paced thrower then it is a real problem for you.

At some point of the game you are allowed to take off on a boat and do some scuba diving handling a metal detector in order to find more clues. The further you advance, the more difficult the puzzles become, and for those who enjoy being brainteased this is for sure a way for you to feel excited. In your play there are situations when you might need to use pen and paper in order to take notes, but more useful seems to be a cell phone’s camera because there are some puzzles that need to be analyzed with a timer countdown. In this case the camera may help to take a photo of map directions, without you needing to write it down.

The game provides two difficult levels, one for the junior detective and the other one for the senior detective. Once you started as a junior you have the option to replay the game as a senior offering you in this way a more challengeable playgame. The values of the game’s production are low-tech, being displayed in a 2D without the possibility to adjust a resolution that is fixed. The exciting thing is that this game can be played on any PC that exists, and has an audio system appropriate for most of its part.

The feeling one gets, while playing is that of navigating through a series of puzzles that are connected by a not so convincing narrative style, rather than a mysterious game that offers puzzles to be solved. IGN games rated Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships at 7.3 which is considered to be a decent game.