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Game Title: Wallace & Gromits Grand Adventures
Published by: Telltale Games
Release Date: March 24 2009 (UK)
PEGI Rating: 12+
Platform For Review: Windows XP or Vista
Genre: Adventure - Point and Click
Players: 1 player
The system requirements for this game are as follows:
• Operating system: Windows XP / Vista
• Processor: 2.0 GHz or better (3 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent recommended)
• Memory: 512MB (1GB recommended)
• Hard disk space: 310MB
• Video: 64MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card (128MB recommended)
• Sound: DirectX 8.1 sound device
• DirectX: Version 9.1 or better
In Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, the world of West Wallaby Street comes alive in four brand new stories you can play. Like the films, each Wallace & Gromit episode finds the earnest inventor and his faithful canine companion embarking on ambitious new ventures laced with unexpected (and always amusing) complications. Players will experience all of their favorite elements from the acclaimed Wallace & Gromit films: imaginative storylines; warm, character-based humor; creative contraptions; physical comedy; and a distinct visual style.
For PC, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures is available as a downloadable, four episode bundle from Telltale's website (http://www.telltalegames.com/wallaceandgromit). In the March 24 premiere episode, "Fright of the Bumblebees," Wallace & Gromit are struggling to find success with a honey business plagued by giant problems. Subsequent episodes, scheduled for May, June, and July, will take the duo from an underground beach resort to a sprawling carnival to a country club hiding an age-old mystery.
About Wallace & Gromit
Wallace
An endearing and affable inventor. Ever enthusiastic, Wallace's hair-brained, over-ambitious, yet well intentioned ideas consistently get him and his faithful hound into trouble. A definite penchant for cheese and crackers, not to mention fashionable knitwear!
Gromit
Wallace's long-suffering loyal pooch. Gromit cares greatly for Wallace even though he's often railroaded into his master’s mad-cap plans. Though cultured and sensitive, preferring order and the quiet life, Gromit displays amazing courage and heroism when it comes to getting his master out of self-made scrapes. Always showing astonishing initiative, Gromit is definitely the intelligent one of the pair.
PC version: On the PC, the games is available in downloadable format, four episode bundle from www.telltalegames.com for the price of $34.95 (approximately GBP25). Fright of the Bumblebees launched on March 24 2009 and the subsequent episodes will be delivered in May, June, and July. (Please note that pricing and release dates may vary slightly.)
Xbox version: Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures will also be available through Xbox LIVE Arcade, although that is not the case as of the time of writing this article. Content-wise, the games are identical, for both versions.
Gameplay controls: Since the Wallace & Gromit series was developed for Xbox as well as PC, it uses a direct control system that’s different than the point and click interface Telltale has used in their other games. The default PC controls are the arrow or WASD keys to move the character around, the mouse to select objects, and the shift key to open the inventory. (In addition to these basic controls, they’ve also mapped several other keys to try to provide as many interface options as possible. The game’s tutorial explains the controls and I suggest checking them out to get the hang of them. If you prefer to use a gamepad, that is also an option.
Languages: The game has subtitle options in German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Total Format Scoring Details For Wallace & Gromits Grand Adventures
Graphics
As wtih previous titles from TellTale Games, the quality of the graphics for Wallace and GRomit are extremely smooth and fluid, to the point of having finger marks in the plasticine effect figures, which is a very nice touch. Nick Parks being the perfectionist will definately approve of the attention to detail.
Sound
I found the sound was as I would expect, the theme was clear and distinct as Wallace and Gromit, all the right sounds play in all the right places and everything is as it should be, except... and I know this is a big exception, but the lack of Peter Sallis doing the voices is very noticable and to me it makes a big difference in an unfortunately bad way. I may be being a little picky with that and most other people may not even notice it, but the characters simply didn't sound correct for me. I don't know what will happen when Peter Sallis stops doing the voices completely. Wallace and Gromits days may be numbered. Of course, I didn't want to put the game down just because of the voices though, it was just something that niggled.
Gameplay
The game is very smooth playing and follows a distinct path through the course of the game. Anyone having played such classics as the original Sam and Max and Day of the Tenticle will appreciate the style of play and will love it, being a Wallace and Gromit fan just adds even more fun to the proceedings. The controls are as said above, slightly different from TellTale's previous titles, but it works, although it did take a short while to get used to, but thankfully the tutorial gives you that time, before you get into the real nitty gritty of things.
Lastability
This to me is the games big let down, it is the sort of game that you will play from start through to the finish, then are likely to put down and not bother with for a fair while, until such time as you've either forgotten it, or nostalgia kicks in. Thankfully there are 4 seperate parts to this adventure coming over the following months, so those that enjoy the series will be able to follow on with the adventures.
Overall
For fans of Wallace and Gromit this is a must have, for fans of adventure and point and click games this is a must have, for gamers wanting a bit of light fun this will fill the gap, for people who enjoy games such as Call to Duty, this will probably not be the kind of game you will find yourself getting engrossed in. There is plenty of humour in the game to keep you amused when things get a little slow, but the gameplay is at times may be a little too rigid to keep those with short attention spans carrying on, nonetheless, I would certainly recommend checking the demo out before dismissing the game outright.
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