Review: Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventure: Muzzled (PC)

Author: Marco Fiori | Date: June 18, 2009

Take heed Valve. You professed that ‘Episodic Gaming’ would revolutionise the gaming landscape – cutting development time, costs and the wait. Five years down the line, and we are still waiting for Half Life 2: Episode 3. Who would have known that the only gaming sector that has benefitted from episodic gaming would be the supposedly dead adventure genre?

TellTale Games have taken the term seriously and managed to release monthly, bite sized chunks of Britishness. The dynamic duo of the plasticine world are back in their latest episode, Wallace & Gromit: Muzzled! It’s a pseudo-Mr Burns-style adventure where the local dog shelter has found itself destroyed, and a suspicious man is offering to help out the town’s dogs. Cue another 3 – 4 hour caper through the quintessentially English world of our favourite cheese and cracker loving pair.

In case you missed our reviews first time around, be sure to check out episode one and two respectively. The reason being is the core framework of the game remains the same, as it should in the world of episodic development. You control Gromit, the Charley Chaplin of the dog world. A selection of puzzles stand in your way as you explore the eccentric world of Nick Park’s creations. Hindered by Gromit’s silence, you’re tasked with saving the day.

It’s hardly original, but when woven together with the unique humour of the series and seeing the digitalised versions of TV’s most heart-warming heroes, you can’t help but enjoy the tranquil ride. As you would expect, all your favourite characters return, each with their humorous mannerisms. Deeply inoffensive, Wallace & Gromit is your perfect ‘Sunday-matinee’ game. There’s no rush and it’s an experience to be enjoyed.

The graphics are unchanged and the soundtrack as ‘tuba’ as you would anticipate. Wonky teeth, ingeniously ridiculous contraptions and ‘do do do do do do do do’ – that irritatingly addictive theme-song: it’s all there. Roll on episode 4.

8/10

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