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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures Episode 2: The Last Resort

Score: 88%
ESRB: Not Rated
Publisher: Telltale Games
Developer: Telltale Games
Media: Download/1
Players: 1
Genre: Adventure

Graphics & Sound:

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures: The Last Resort is the series' second episode, and like the previous game, Fright of the Bumblebees, it does a great job of sticking to the look and feel of the stop-action animated shorts.

The show's unique claymation style comes through loud and clear. From Aardman's use of big eyes to the mannerisms of the characters themselves, playing The Last Resort feels like playing an episode of the show. The game's audio qualities help with this as well since the voicework sounds like the same actors as the TV show. If it isn't the same actors, then the people they got to do the job are spot-on.


Gameplay:

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Episode 2: The Last Resort has a rainy day ruining Gromit's holiday. He and Wallace were supposed to go to the beach, but an impending thunderstorm will most likely put an end to that. And, of course, Wallace accidentally flooding the basement isn't helping things. But the massive amounts of water down below has given the goofy inventor a grand idea. If you can't go to the beach, bring the beach to you. Your first major task is to convince the people around the town to give you a beach umbrella, a light for the sun and a whole lot of sand. But once that's achieved, Wallace decides to make their basement-beach a local resort for all of their friends. This new adventure isn't all fun in the fake-sun though. By the time dinner is served, some strange mysteries start cropping up and Wallace and Gromit must figure out exactly what is going on, else they will have to provide some major refunds to their guests.

The Last Resort plays like your average point-and-click adventure. There are tons of objects scattered about the world for you to click on and interact with, but there isn't any of the painful pixel-hunting issues usually associated with these games, which is always great. In order to help with this genre-standard issue, TellTale lets you hold down the (Tab) key. When you do this, most of the screen goes dark and items in the world that Wallace or Gromit can interact with light up as if a spotlight is on them. It really is a simple, yet brilliant solution.


Difficulty:

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Episode 2: The Last Resort has a few difficult puzzles, but for the most part, everything is laid out in a logical and simple way so you can typically figure out exactly what you have to do pretty easily, at least as far as veteran adventure gamers are concerned. If you've played your way through a couple games of this genre, then you shouldn't have any problems listening to the NPCs' hints and determining what you have to do. On top of that, The Last Resort isn't very long. Most gamers should be able to work their way through the game's story in a couple of hours, which is great for an episodic game like Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures.

Game Mechanics:

Like I said above, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Episode 2: The Last Resort is your standard point-and-click adventure. Using the WASD keys, you will walk your character (either Wallace or Gromit) around the screen and use the mouse to click on items of interest. When you want to use an item in your inventory, a tap of the (I) key brings up the list of items on you and a couple of mouse-clicks later, you are trying to use your sunglasses with one of Felicity's little dogs. One of the beauties of this genre is the ability to pick it up and start playing.

The Last Resort is the second of four games TellTale is planning on releasing for this license, and so far, the games are hitting their mark. If you've enjoyed this company's other episodic adventures, or you are a Wallace and Gromit fan already, then the Grand Adventures games should be right up your alley, and that includes The Last Resort.


-J.R. Nip, GameVortex Communications
AKA Chris Meyer

Minimum System Requirements:



Windows XP / Vista, 2.0 GHz Processor or better (3 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent recommended), 512MB RAM (1GB recommended), 310MB Hard Drive Space, 64MB DirectX 8.1-compliant video card (128MB recommended), DirectX 8.1 sound device, DirectX Version 9.1 or better
 

Test System:



Windows Vista Ultimate, AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.20 GHz, 4 GB Ram, ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Graphics Card, DirectX 9.0c

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