Game » consists of 12 releases. Released Jul 02, 2009
This game has the cleverest physics-based puzzles since Half Life 2 and the proceeding episodes. At first, I put the game down for more than a year because I thought the game lacked depth. Boy was I wrong. After playing past the second level, I discovered that you could level up your character, specialize in abilities, and equip different items. This game soon became everything I wished it to be. The levels are varied, extremely well designed, and most of all, just plain fun.
Given the current marketplace, much of gaming has come down to yearly sequels and variations on a theme. There is not a lot of room for major deviance within that system, much of the time it simply isn’t commercially viable to stray too far from what is traditionally successful. Trine stands out as a well-designed game with a refreshing gameplay mechanic; one that isn’t just a clone of so many other games on the market. While it certainly isn’t the first of its kind – Blizzard did it years ago...
Right from the get-go, Trine is the sort of game that knows what it is and isn't. It is a (predominantly) downloadable game, with a modest scope and healthy, but not particularly lengthy run time. In that regard, it's not particularly different from its contemporaries on services like Steam and XBLA. What it is not, however, is a game that should be scoffed at in most any regard whatsoever. While Trine is a game with a very specific mission in mind, one devoted to delivering satisfying combat an...