The game’s eight levels feel markedly different from one another as well, with tropical paradises, dark icy waters and cityscapes all represented. There aren’t a huge number of boats to choose from, but they all manage to look unique while falling in line with the game’s overriding theme of being over-the-top with the number of engines and wild designs.
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For a game with such a basic premise — scare and/or kill teddy bears — there’s a lot of controls to familiarize yourself with. Unfortunately, nothing at your disposal allows for locking onto targets, which leaves you to flail away with melee weapons while trying to keep the camera in position to follow the action. It’s an exercise in futility and zaps some of the potential fun.
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The controls couldn’t be any simpler as the only moves at your disposal are jumping (A) and interacting with objects (B).
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The right analog stick also controls two abilities — press to pull objects toward you, hold down to create a ball of time-freezing energy — though it fared considerably better. Neither issue rates as debilitating since you’re incapacitating enemies either way, but it was a bit frustrating.
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The gems look bright and colourful, and the exploration screens look decent enough as well. The visual highlights are the hand drawn character/enemy art you’ll encounter when battles begin or you unleash a weapon attack, though there’s nothing here that flexes the Xbox 360’s graphical muscle.
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I love football. It utterly consumes my weekends for four-plus months of the year, and that doesn’t even cover all the nights I’ll throw it on as background noise. I’ve always been partial to the NFL, but there’s something undeniably appealing about the collegiate game. It is equal parts passion and pageantry, a place where gimmick offenses can flourish and getting the right player in the right system can make all the difference.
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In adventure games, inventory items were made to be combined, and that was always easier done with mouse-based inventory management. Since this is a console experience, Tell Tale has managed the best that it could; one button opens up the inventory menu, then you highlight the item to be used. This goes into a sub-menu that allows it to be combined with another object in your inventory or in the active game. It sounds clunky, but there’s no real way around it. PC-style inventory management simply doesn’t work smoothly on a console environment, though Tell Tale has done its best to try to make it streamlined and accessible.
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