Scribblenauts is a simple puzzle/platformer, but with one vital twist. You can write almost any object you can think of, and that object will appear in the game world to help you platform or puzzle solve. A simple concept that is genius in it's execution and application.
You may be thinking: "How accurate can the dictionary be? It surely won't know a lot of words and the game will be limited". By all accounts the dictionary is quite deep, only a few accounts have come out of E3 of people being able to stump the game, and the devs have been taking notes and promising to put these words in the game. Zombies, time machines, glue, dinosaurs, and even a good chunk of internet memes are in this game (longcat and keyboard cat will both make appearances along with a host of others). Still not convinced? I'll let this video do the talking.
That's some of Scribblenauts in action. Still unconvinced? Feep from neoGAF played it and had this to say:
I had played all the big titles at E3. Private showings of God of War III, Heavy Rain, Alan Wake. But at 4:00 on Thursday, I was wondering around the show floor, wondering what else I had to see. I saw a small little booth for "Scribblenauts!" in the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment section. I mean, who goes to that booth? But I remember hearing about it on GAF, and so I decided to check it out.This is one to keep an eye on folks.
Best game of E3? Without a fucking doubt. Anyone who says otherwise did not play Scribblenauts. Best game of all time? Jesus Christ, I don't know, maybe. It's a game that challenges your IMAGINATION. No other game has ever done that.
So listen to this story. I was in the early levels; I didn't quite have an idea of how ridiculously in-depth the database was. I was summoning things like ladders, glasses of water, rayguns, what have you. But I reached a level with zombie robots, and the zombie robots kept killing me. Rayguns didn't work, a torch didn't work, a pickaxe didn't work. In my frustration, I wrote in "Time Machine". And one popped up. What the fuck? A smile dawned on my face. I hopped in, and the option was given to me to either travel to the past or the future. I chose past. When I hopped out, there were fucking dinosaurs walking around. I clicked one, and realized I could RIDE THEM. So I hopped on a fucking DINOSAUR, traveled back to the present, and stomped the shit out of robot zombies. Did you just read that sentence? Did you really? I FUCKING TRAVELED THROUGH TIME AND JUMPED ON A DINOSAUR AND USED IT TO KILL MOTHERFUCKING ROBOT ZOMBIES. This game is unbelievable. Impossible. There's nothing you can't do.
Holy fucking shit.
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