Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 August 2010

Whizzing around the TARDIS


Read the preview, Wish You Were Here, by James Moran
The new Adventure Game, TARDIS, is now available for download from the BBC, and as its name suggests, takes place inside the Doctor's home. Being it's been a few weeks since the previous adventure, I've been waiting for this with anticipation, so downloaded it straight away (then had to do so again thanks to running out of disk space - oops).

Being spoiler-free, I'm not going to go into that much detail, but those who have played the previous games aren't going to find anything too challenging in this one (apart from the usual problem of rapid movement around things when you're using a touchpad!).

All-in-all, this ironically feels like an "episode three" in terms of plot (unless something mega happens in the later parts - I haven't finished the game yet due to timing issues with aforesaid touchpad temperamentality!), so I'm not quite so enamoured with it. So Blood of the Cybermen is still my favourite at the moment!

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Nintendo Games for Autumn

A couple of games have appeared for the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms.

Maybe I'm just being cynical, though, as they are featuring the two most popular monsters from the series, so they could be brand new games!
Return to Earth Evacuation Earth

Return to Earth: The Doctor and Amy help the SS Lucy Gray to return home to Earth, unravelling a Cyber Plot and preventing the Daleks from retrieving a lost Time Axis along the way. The Doctor and Amy arrive on a human colony ship returning to Earth after it was rendered uninhabitable by solar flares. Without provocation they are attacked by the ship’s maintenance robots and become separated in the struggle. The Doctor is eventually led to the ship’s Head Quarters, where he discovers a Cyber Leader has connected himself to the ships AI and is blackmailing it into doing his bidding, or else he’ll kill the crew. Meanwhile the Cybermen that were hiding in the ship ambush Amy and chase her out into space. Guide the Doctor and Amy as they face their biggest adventure yet!

Evacuation Earth: The Doctor and Amy arrive at the Lake District to watch the humans leave the planet. Suddenly the TARDIS gets lifted from them and bolted onto the evacuation ship. They have to make their way onto the ship before it leaves. As the ship launches it has technical problems and they realise the Silurians have built a ship underneath. The Doctor finds a solution to make the ship work. Suddenly the Dalek ship smashes into the human one and splits the Silurian half off. It’s the Dalek ship that chased the Time Axis into the sun – they weren’t destroyed, they actually made a random jump several hundred years into the past. The Daleks are pleased that they can exact revenge on the Doctor but first they make him fix their ship. The Doctor goes along with their plan but tricks them into bolting the TARDIS onto their ship, which he promptly jumps into and uses to fling them into the nearest black hole.