Wall-E
Race blast and navigate as you take futuristic robots WALL E and EVE through a fast-paced adventure. From the desolate waste-lands of Earth to the Axiom space cruiser throw cubes and blast robots and obstacles while you relive some of the movie s most thrilling moments and explore 9 worlds filled with non-stop action and adventure along with head-to-head multiplayer challenges. Dodge dangerous enemies carry out intense missions and navigate your way through a futuristic galaxy to save the planet!Re-live some of the movie s most thrilling momentsEnjoy new storylines and explore massive environments not seen in the filmPlay as WALL E and EVE as you interact with a multitude of robots & charactersWALL E compacts trash to create powerful cubes and uses them to alter the environment solve puzzles and defeat enemiesEVE has fast-flying action and exploration with shooter-flight game playBoth can use lasers to blast enemies and obstaclesHuge variety of game play on over 9 action-packed levelsShooting flying racing co-op play navigational challenges and even arcade style gamesMulti-player challenges (up to 4 person multi-player) and tons of mini-games & activitiesFeatures major movie Voice talent including Ben BurttDevelopment lead by Heavy Iron Studios an award winning internal studio (Ratatouille The Incredibles Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer)Format: WIN XPVISTA/DVD SOFTWARE Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 752919493335 Manufacturer No: 49333
Released concurrently with the Pixar/Disney major motion picture release of the same name, WALL·E is the story of the little robot that could. Due to rampant consumerism, sometime in the near future, the Earth is so covered with trash and pollution that it forces an exodus off the planet. But before humanity departs they build millions of little robots programmed to clean up the planet. Unfortunately, the cleanup program doesn?t go quite as planned, leaving the cleanup solely in the hands of our little robot hero WALL·E and his love interest EVE.
Interact with all Earth's creatures.
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Gameplay
Race, blast and navigate as you take futuristic robots WALL·E and EVE through a fast-paced adventure. From the desolate waste-lands of Earth to the Axiom space cruiser, throw cubes and blast robots and obstacles while you relive some of the movie?s most thrilling moments and explore 9 worlds filled with non-stop action and adventure, along with head-to-head multiplayer challenges. Dodge dangerous enemies, carry out intense missions and navigate your way through a futuristic galaxy to save the planet!Features:- Re-live some of the movie?s most thrilling moments.
- Enjoy new storylines and explore massive environments not seen in the film.
- Play as WALL·E and EVE as you interact with a multitude of robots & characters
- WALL·E compacts trash to create powerful cubes and uses them to alter the environment, solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
- EVE has fast-flying action and exploration with shooter-flight game play.
- Both can use lasers to blast enemies and obstacles
- Huge variety of game play on over 9 action-packed levels.
- Shooting, flying, racing, co-op play, navigational challenges, and even arcade style games.
- Multi-player challenges (up to 4 person multi-player) and tons of mini-games & activities.
- Features major movie "Voice" talent, including Ben Burtt.
- Development lead by Heavy Iron Studios, an award winning internal studio (Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer)
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Wall-E Reviews
"Wall E is a small robot. My son, ten years old, loves this game and here is what he has to say about it:. A robot called EVE deploys from it and he immediately falls in love with her. I liked the movie and the game; I think I like even more." One day a huge space ship lands on earth. The game Wall E is a lot like the movie; he is made to pick up trash and has been for seven hundred years. There used to be a lot of them but they all died out except for one; so, alone, he keeps on trying to clean up earth.
Establishing the relationship between energy and action in an intuitive way for a child makes this game absolutely priceless. I asked. It is absolutely amazing that my five year old daughter has learned what "energy" is and why it is needed while playing this game. After she and I played the game for hours, I asked her, "What is Wall-E getting when he goes [mimicking the funny noise Wall-E makes when charging]." She immediately replied, "Energy." Why does Wall-E need energy. "Because Wall-E needs to jump, " she answered. That specific answer was never mentioned to her by me.
My system far exceeds the minimum specifications, yet the game crashes my system in an unpredictable pattern. It requires a reboot of the system each time. THQ responded to my report by concluding I had a defective disc. Avoid this turkey. This product does not work on a Mac. Amazon replaced the disc and the replacement copy, which I reinstalled to make sure there were no remnants of the original installation, crashed in less than 6 minutes of play. Since THQ is blind to the defect, I don't expect it to be fixed anytime soon.
Definitely no next gen graphics to be seen here. I've also noticed that sometimes you will have a panel with multiple buttons and no indicator as to which button Wall-E's finger is currently hovering over. 4) Jump over obstacles. You just have to work out which button is currently hovered over through trial an error, which leads to all sorts of problems when doing the memory matching puzzle. 2) Shrink to a cube to break the other two kinds of boxes. You traverse the level to destroy the boxes that contain the energy units until you have enough to open the door. The game includes half pipe and half pipe transfers (a la Tony Hawk) to gain momentum for larger jumps. This usually happens when attempting to move forward without being lined up in the direction you want to go before youstart moving.
Wall-E has a very simplistic control mechanism. If the gameplay is largely the same then most people would prefer to play the game with the better graphics. The devellopers should have made this system better, or reduced the focus of jumping from platform to platform, as each level relies heavily on jumping puzzles. First and foremost Wall-E appears to be a port of the PlayStation 2 version of the game.
Maybe find a piece of garbage or two along the way, maybe not. I've said it before and I'll say it again. These mini games are clearly intended for children. Each of these buttons allow you to perform one of about 4 things you'll do for the entire game. Wall-E is not one of these games, and I would recommend this game for a younger audience only.
The jumping can be a bit unpredictable and difficult for younger gamers, so much so that they have run the risk of making the game unplayable for their target market. One slight weave or arc while crossing can make you fall off any one of the several ledges found in the game. One missed jump can mean a frustrating climb back up to where you originally fell off. Moving on to the actual gameplay. 1) Shoot red boxes with the laser. There are also mini games that allow you to doors that provide access to yet more crates to destroy. The only time I consider graphics in the equation is when two games offer similar gameplay. The mini games take the form of simon says, image matching (make the readout on the left look like the readout on the right), and the memory card game where you try to match hidden pairs.
Wall-E gives you the ability to increase the resolution, but that's about it. With this in mind, you might be better off with the 360 or PS3 version of the game; unless graphics truly aren't important to you. Break three types of boxes, hit a switch, jump through to the next section. It's more of a fall forward movement. As a result, the graphics suffer in much the same way that the do with the recent PC versions of the Iron Man and Hulk games. There's a button to jump (more on this later), a button to shoot a laser, a button to toss objects, and a button to skrink down to a cube form.
Speaking of falling, Wall-E also has the tendancey to "weave" instaead of simply moving in a straight line. Jumping can be a bit cumbersome in this game. This becomes a problem when attempting to cross things like narrow bridges. 3) Throw an object to destroy an out of reach box or hit a switch that allows you to continue with forward progress. There are other games intended for a younger audience that are still fun to play as an adult, the Lego games come to mind. There are hidden objects among the garbage in each level, but again the only real purpose they serve is to check them off the 100% completion list.
The object is to build up speed and fall forward to the next platform where how far you fall forward depends on how fast you are going. Graphics aren't everything, most of the enjoyment I get out of games is derived from gameplay.
I really wouldn't describe the behavior as a jump. There is a high level of repetition and you hit that Wall very early on.
There are also other boxes that con be destroyed, but the only function they serve is to finish the game with a 100% completion rating. Other that those 4 things there really isn't that much more to this game.
There is an adjustment period where Wall-E arcs in the direction you want to move. An area typically has a door that can be opened by supplying it with a certain number of energy units.
I didn't find it all that engaging after about 15 minutes. That's the game.
I would like to see a game that finds the middle ground between the crappy online games and this one. Pixar did an incredible job making the movie meaningful and accessible to such young kids, but the same can't be said of this game. Sure, but since it's just movie merchandise anyway, not Halo 4, why not cater to the audience that will get the most actual joy out of it. This game should have been aimed at a younger audience, with less emphasis on complicated (for a 5-year-old) controls/moves and more emphasis on fun. All my 5-year-old wants to do is be Wall-E, and make him move around and collect stuff in his little lunch cooler and explore. My kids are 3 and 5 years old. Do I enjoy playing it.
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