Enter the colorful world of West Wallaby Street in a series of four cracking adventures brought to you by Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace & Gromit animated films, and award-winning Telltale Games. As with the brilliant Aardman films, each Wallace & Gromit episode finds the earnest in...
Enter the colorful world of West Wallaby Street in a series of four cracking adventures brought to you by Aardman Animations, the creators of the Wallace & Gromit animated films, and award-winning Telltale Games. As with the brilliant Aardman films, each Wallace & Gromit episode finds the earnest inventor and his faithful canine companion embarking on ambitious new ventures laced with unexpected (and always laugh-inducing) complications.
Giant bees, kidnapped dogs, a beach resort in the cellar and the finale at the Prickly Thicket country club. Take the duo through trials and tribulations to set things right by tea time!
Episode 1 – "Fright Of the Bumblebees”
Wallace attempts to save his bumbling honey business with supersized flowers. This leads to an unintended consequence - giant bees! - and Gromit must save the town from the angry swarm!
Episode 2 – “The Last Resort”
Wallace & Gromit turn their basement into a beach resort when rains derail their holiday plans. After a resort guest gets bonked by an unknown assailant, Gromit and the deduct-o-matic invention must solve the case!
Episode 3 – “Muzzled!”
Town newcomer Monty Muzzle is holding a fundraiser to rebuild the local dog shelter. Gromit discovers that Muzzle's intentions aren't exactly charitable, and he must foil Muzzle's plot and rescue his canine friends.
Episode 4 – “The Bogey Man”
Wallace has been admitted to Prickly Thicket, the oldest country club in Lancashire. Wallace and his faithful caddie Gromit get caught up in a club dispute, then must fight to save all they hold dear!
You control Wallace (inventor) and Gromit (his dog). Gromit is always solving Wallaces lapses which is just very funny. He can't talk but he underestands everything and is way more reasonable than Wallace.
There are four episodes. It starts with "Fright of the Bumblebees". It is an ok introduction, followed by "The Last Resort" which is probably the best episode. "Muzzled" is also top notch and right behind it. I loved both. "The Bogeyman" is by far the hardest one and the story is not as good. I think it is also the weakest of them mainly because of that. It might be very frustrating. I had to watch a walktrough for that episode. I think this game shouldn't be hard. It should be just easy and fun.
Overall I enjoyed the game, pitty there are only 4 episodes. If you like dogs get this adventure and you will have a lot of fun.
The "Game Details" section of this page states that the game has subtitles in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian. I purchased the game and navigated to the settings menu, and it appears that only English subtitles are available. I am French. Is it possible to access the other languages advertised in the "Game Details" section?
I loved Wallace & Gromit as a kid, still do as an adult, and this game is delightfully simple and lets me fondly remember the show. It's a straightforward point and click and the stakes couldn't possibly be lower, but that's part of the charm of each episode.
This is a series of 4 episodes that story-wise mostly happen in the same location and involve mostly the same characters. The number of items and interactions is relatively small, yet, the game can be occasionally challenging because some interactions are not obvious. The story is linear and is mildly silly and the situations we are put into are entertaining.
I think the second episode was the best one, while the last episode was definitely the hardest and at the same time the weakest. The most annoying parts are where you have to repeat the same actions over and over until you guess the right sequence while watching long animations or comments after each attempt.
The game is technically solid, but the places where it needed polish are rather obvious. These include keyboard controls that often do not correspond to the camera view, camera positioning in the scene that occasionally hides active spots (use the spot highlight key), insufficient hints to give you an idea what you need to solve, and in some scenes there are frequently repeated commentaries by the characters that steal controls from you or distract.
Still, I would overall recommend the game.
Being a fan of Telltale's adventure games and of Aardman's Wallace & Gromit shorts, I figured this game was a match made in heaven for me.
I was wrong. The puzzles are mind-numbingly simple, taking up a very large portion of the game. The dialogue choices aren't very interesting, but at the very least we have Wallace and Gromit to entertain us, right? Well, Wallace's voice actor recommended someone else to do the voice for the game, and it doesn't make the cut.
I love Telltale, but this series really didn't work for me.
