As in the case of Up: The Video Game, G-Force, Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, (the list can be continued) Description of the Arcade Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which will be released in Russia under the name “cloudy, precipitation in the form of meatballs” had to be sought by all sorts of Kinopoisk.ru and official websites of developers/publishers. Without looking at the cartoon, based on which this entertainment program is made, one can only guess what is happening there. The exciting narrative of the animation tape was “washed away” with one pressing button on a drain tank, and all the characters suddenly became unremarkable … drawings. The laziness of developers this time exceeded all conceivable and inconceivable limits – instead of the user’s videos, they “have” “set off” the so -called “screensavers”, where the main character in pixel decorations of the times Contra, to eight-bit music will throw a couple of phrases and … all. For http://dolomitimountainresort.com/news/casinia-casino-bonuses-how-to-make-the-most-of-your-experience.html the first time seeing this shame, you only wait for the platformer from the mid -eighties.
In fact, everything is not so bad. The eye is pleased with the pretty picture and stylish levels, most of which consists of a variety of food. Why food? All due to the fact that the main character-Flint Lockwood-drove with an amazing machine that allows us to turn ordinary water into food. At first everything went according to plan, but suddenly the downpour hit his invention, and the grocery apocalypse came. From heaven, instead of the usual rain drops, huge hamburgers, meatballs and other delicious ones began to fall on their heads, but no one was already happy about the free abundance. The professor now has to save the world from the device, which has gone out of control.
How it has become fashionable for a long time, the flint looks … like a freak. This is no longer the fault of the creators of the game, but rather artists of the cartoon. The vast majority of the animated ribbons of our century suffer from this. Recall at least recently released „up“. Gorbaty grandfather, not moderately an obvious schoolboy … Such characters create a distorted worldview in children. And the protagonist Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs It is no better: it is long and skinny, and his nose is almost half the size of his head. Leading the actions of such a ward is not too nice. Remember the classic Soviet cartoons, for example, „Mowgli“. What beautiful animals, people, and vegetation – the eye will not be picked up. In this regard, the Hollywood brothers far away from them. And so it turns out that the brutal warrior Marcus Phoenix from GEars of War is where Miley Flint from „Cloud“.
As the trailer says on the site „New disk“, In the game you need to run, jump, etc.p., that is, to do what has been tired of everyone a long time ago. 25 locations are given, in each of which it is required to thoroughly proceed, or clear the puddles from the chili sauce or hot gravy. The hero experiences pain when entering the slurry, so it will not work to wipe the rag and you need to use a special pipe truck. The vehicle is completely uncontrollable: this button just was responsible for driving to the right, and after a few seconds – already another. The treacherously changing keys are not cunning gameplay finds of the authors, but their curvature. On a twelve -bearing gamepad with management, everything is fine, but on the keyboard … which prevented the developer from making normal, human management is completely incomprehensible.
But not everything is so bad in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The action takes place on bright, cheerful locations, except for the cleaning of which you still need to deal with unfriendly snowmen shooting snow mares, or marmalade bears trying to score a protagonist with a rally. The funny of the rest turned out to be broccoli, fleeing on their inflorescences, like on the legs. With those who do not run away, but fights, it is allowed to deal with gadgets, the number of which is exactly five pieces. At the same time, up to three devices are allowed, and they switch between them are allowed only using the left and right shift keys. Here, the narrow thinking of developers from Ubisoft Shanghai. Instead of allowing the devices to change the usual presses of buttons 1-2-3, the creators made this process similar to what is on the gamepads. This causes continuous inconvenience and confusion.
As in Up: The Video Game, a friend can join you at any time. But, unlike the RE5 cooperative, joint passage Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs does not cause any pleasure. Close together on one keyboard – this is not a comparison with the game via the Internet or two gamepads. Another eternal ailment is also observed here – a virtual camera that cannot decide which of the two characters to follow it. Inconvenient both the first and the second user.
The total duration of the “meatballs” is about five hours, and if not to collect bonuses, then even less. When you lift all rewards, an additional, seventh stage will become available. But the previous six are enough “head”, since all the locations are made like a carbon copy. Only orchestral music is good, enchanting from the first seconds of sound. But this is not the merit of the developers – the soundtrack migrated straight from the cartoon.
In theory, the game should entertain the game, but, on the contrary, you get tired of it.
Pros: There are very few of them.
Cons: Another manifold.
