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| Playability: There are plenty of different styles of games to play and all are accessible from the off. This makes the game very easy to get into, letting the player progress at their own pace. Each area of the studio is displayed within a 3D environment allowing you to freely explore and locate the doors that lead into each of the games. Just outside of each door stands a director's chair with a star next it. By standing on this star you are told what task lies through the doorway ahead. These helpful features are well presented along with a graphic of the Playstation controller dropping down explaining each control in turn as a demonstration of the task is played out for you. If you don't fancy it you can carry on into another room and try your hand at something else. There's no problem with getting killed either, you either complete the tasks and get a key or you don't and are left to try again. No blood, no violence, just plain harmless fun. There are a couple of crazy golf games to try consisting of nine holes each and trust me, you don't have to be Tiger Woods to complete them. The courses are fairly entertaining and simple enough, you wont find any club selection, chip shots or digging the ball out of bunkers here, just hit and go. As expected in the shooting games, there are no sign of guns. Instead you fire milk from a bottle at targets which pop up from behind wagons and in within windows. Get them all in the time limit and you move one step closer to reaching Dil. The racing games are fairly run of the mill affairs with the usual controls to move your cart about and there are also power ups that can be deployed around the tracks to slow down the other Rugrats. The power ups consist of balls to throw, biscuits or cookies to give you extra speed, bottles to make you invulnerable or dirty diapers to drop behind you causing other carts to slide out of control (I'm sure there's a joke about skid marks hiding in there somewhere). As well as the above, there are a number of original games which test your skills at Tag, rounding up animals or collecting items within a set time. It would be very easy to say the quality of the individual games does not match up to other games of similar types i.e. The racing games cannot keep up with the Speed Freaks or Crash Teams of this world but there is a lot going on here. What it does, it does well enough. The controls are kept simple and clear throughout each game and are responsive enough to keep a grip on everything. One niggle I did find was the camera angles. At certain times it didn't follow the character closely enough and wouldn't give a clear view of the obstacles or dangers ahead. The view can easily be reset but it would have been better for this to happen automatically. Once completing the initial task of collecting eight keys to open the security door, I was looking forward to advancing further into the studio and being rewarded with new areas to explore and plunder. It was with a sense of horror and disappointment when on inserting the last key the door swung open to reveal, guess what... another door with holes for twenty-five keys and to add insult to injury these needed to be collected from the areas already visited. In fairness, you don't need to find keys for every keyhole but I was well into double figures before the second door opened and let me through. Past the security door, a couple more scenes and the final challenge in Reptar Park see you at the end and reunited with Dil with the hapless parent's non-the wiser. For completing the game you are rewarded with an extra race level and a multiplayer level to play whenever the mood takes you. Game Options: This is a 1 disk game for 1-4 Players. It is compatible with the standard (digital) joypad and the analog stick controls of the dual shock joypad. Games can be saved via memory card (1 block per save). |
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