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    The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

    Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Feb 17, 2010

    Enter a macabre and comical silent film world filled with mischief, time travel, and delicious pie. Record yourself and harness your time bending abilities to cooperate, compete against, and disrupt your past, present, and future selves. Winterbottom's debut misadventures present whimsical spin on the notions of time, space, and play.

    silver_dewsky's Winterbottom (Xbox 360 Games Store) review

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    Winterbottom's Quest for Pie, Is an XBLA Treat you can't deny!

    The Misadventures of P.B Winterbottom is an Xbox Live Arcade game with some style. The silent-film look of the game is one of the great features of the game, alongside the music and interesting story. It involves P.B Winterbottom, a man on a mission to eat all the pies he can find, although this leads him into some sort of time portal which gives him the ability to clone himself in different ways. Each world is about 5-10 levels, and the rules of beating each level will change how you obtain pies since the rules of using clones will change throughout the game. It's only a few hours long, but Winterbottom is a great game with some head scratching puzzles to solve. 
     
    For 800 Microsoft Points ($10), you will get a great game with an interesting story, plus a nice set of challenge levels with it's   own achievements to unlock. 

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    Gameplay varies from level to level, but your main goal is to solve the puzzles in the level to obtain more pies for Winterbottom, and fully harness his ability to record and clone himself in order to advance. The Five worlds all introduce small mechanics with the cloning so you have to stop and understand the new rules you will have when recording your moves. Say for instance there are two switches in a level, you would first record yourself jumping onto one while making sure you have enough time to reach the other one, and then watch your clone perform the act while you jump on the other switch. This is just a basic example, as things will get a bit harder than this. 
     
     The game is mostly in Black & White, with key features changing colors that help identify objects and tools you will use in the game. The Story details why Winterbottom has an knack for stealing pies, and is pretty funny and interesting. 
     
    Overall this is a great Arcade game that will keep you busy for a few hours.  4/5
     
    + Cool Visuals, Story, and Gameplay will last a good 3+ hours
    + Additional Challenges to complete after you finish the story mission
    -A few difficult puzzles later on, but nothing too hard

    Other reviews for Winterbottom (Xbox 360 Games Store)

      Charming, Inventive, Short. 0

      Winterbottom is not the most like-able character. Stealing from orphans, flooding the local town, and setting fire to a bakery are just a few of this man's sins. For what, you may ask? Fucking pies! I mean, there are some things I would soil my integrity for (all of which involve Heidi Klum) but pies? Ah, but while pies lead to his damnation, they also represent his salvation. Given a second chance to correct his mistakes, a magical, time-bending super pie bestows upon P.B. the ability to go bac...

      13 out of 13 found this review helpful.

      The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Review 0

      This XBOX Live Arcade game has you assuming the role of PB Winterbottom a pie hungry thief whose only love in life is to steal and eat pies. You will be trying to capture a very elusive pie, but on the way you'll have to solve puzzle after puzzle to unlock other levels to get your closer to that pie.I  really like the graphical style they went with in this game. Almost entirely black and white with an old silent film type of feel to it. This is even further enforced with the mechanism of recordi...

      4 out of 4 found this review helpful.

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