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DW Adventure games: Yay or nay?
Si_Crewe
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Anybody else downloaded these from the DW website yet?
I got bored today so I thought I'd give them a look and, TBH, I'm not at all sure what to think.
On the one hand, each game lasts about as long as an episode of the telly programme and they are pretty well made so I guess you can't complain.
OTOH, it kinda worries me that they ARE so well made cos it kinda suggests that they probably paid the developer a fair few bob for them.
The gfx look like you could be playing a DW version of Splinter Cell or summat but you soon realise that the actual game-play is only marginal more complex than noughts and crosses.
I can't help wondering if somebody commisioned a "proper" DW game and then, after seeing the result, decided they'd have to give it away as a freebie.
I'd much rather then created a game that looks like these do but is much, much deeper and then charge me £25 for it.
I got bored today so I thought I'd give them a look and, TBH, I'm not at all sure what to think.
On the one hand, each game lasts about as long as an episode of the telly programme and they are pretty well made so I guess you can't complain.
OTOH, it kinda worries me that they ARE so well made cos it kinda suggests that they probably paid the developer a fair few bob for them.
The gfx look like you could be playing a DW version of Splinter Cell or summat but you soon realise that the actual game-play is only marginal more complex than noughts and crosses.
I can't help wondering if somebody commisioned a "proper" DW game and then, after seeing the result, decided they'd have to give it away as a freebie.
I'd much rather then created a game that looks like these do but is much, much deeper and then charge me £25 for it.
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The target market is generally the younger age range fan, hence why the degree of difficulty is set fairly low.
Also there have been "proper" Doctor Who games released for wii and ds this past year, and the free games on the site are a damn sight better than either of the ones you have to pay for.
same here ispecly in latest
I've only completed the first two, though. I don't really have the patience for PC games.
C'mon Doctor, where are you stuck at?
(I got stuck loads of times, Just tell me what you need
Its the bit after you come out of the underground at Trafalgar Square and have to get back to the Tardis undetected...I just can't do it!:mad:
By way of help...
You head to the right, toward a wrecked taxi IIRC.
There's a small gap between 2 daleks field of views which you can scuttle into then, when the left-hand one turns away, you can nip past.
That leaves you to quietly sneak behind a dalek that's looking the wrong way and you're home.
I don't mean to be too critical of the games. As freebies they really are top quality.
It just seems like they have the makings of what could be an epic game and rather than really stretch themselves they've kinda taken the easy way out by producing such straightforward mini-games.
Tell you what, I bet it'd produce spectacular results if they released a SDK into the public domain.
*EDIT*
Meant to say, as well, nice to see Matt Smith and Karen Gillan taking part in this by doing the voice-overs.
Also, I agree about the movement.
They seem to have used a sort of inertia system so that a brief tap on the key creates a small movement but if you hold it down the character runs.
Quite a clever idea but in use it feels kinda strange.
So, basically what Si said
I've not downloaded them myself by friends tell me they are, "Not bad and get better". Unlike the recent released games (such as on the Wii) which have been somewhat panned.
Sounds like a blanket description of all games, to me. Don't see the point.
I perfer to watch an episode that I like ax