World of Goo Review

[Jbob]

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World of Goo is a game based on a simple concept of building structures with balls of "goo" but the actual games usage of such a simple mechanic are genius. World of Goo is a single-player puzzle game. The concept is basic and easy to grasp and is one of the easiest games to pickup and play, there is no tutorial, it's that easy.


Game: World of Goo
Genre: Puzzle
Developer: 2D Boy


PC, Mac, WiiWare, Linux(beta)


The Game is split into 5 different chapters, each one has its own graphical and musical theme which makes it very easy to get immersed into the different environment and atmosphere. There is also a mini game which you take all of your excess "goo balls" from your chapters and go to a place called the World of Goo Corporation and compete against players around the world to make the highest tower possible with everyone's respective excess goo balls.


Minimum:
OS: XP or Vista
Processor: 1GHz or faster
Memory: 512+MB RAM
Video: Any 3d graphics accelerator less than 5 years old
DirectX: 9.0c
Hard Drive Space: 100MB


Mac OS X 10.1 or later


The graphic style of World of Goo is an awe-inspiring 2D style which is sort of like a cell shaded look, but it has its own flavor to it. The graphics are not super-awesome-3d-slowyourcomputerdown. They are simple and get the point across. World of Goo is a great example of how clean and simple graphics can make just as good of a game as amazing 3d graphics in a game like Crysis.



World of Goo is not a game which you would expect to have good music, and that is exactly what they knew people would think so they came out with one of the best soundtracks for a game I have ever heard. Again, simplicity is the key to the sound in this game, it is an awesome sounding score, that jumps all over the place with simple orchestral music with nice harp sounds, to much more modern sounding rock.



World of Goo is one huge physics sandbox, with different types of Goo and different environments to play in. The different types of goo can range from balloons which allow you to be able to raise certain sections, go green goo which can be reused and replaced. There is red goo which can catch on fire, and white goo which cannot. The black goo is the main type of goo, it can only be placed once and cannot be moved after that. There are a ton of different aspect to the gameplay in World of Goo. There is no puzzle that is like another, it is constant entertainment. This game is also unlike any other game, this whole new unique style of structure forming and puzzle solving could lead to a bright future for puzzle games.



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World of Goo is a game everyone should play, it won't be the longest game you play, but will definitly be in your top 10 best games of all time. It is so much fun to just sit down for 10 minutes and play a level. The enjoyment of this game is unlike many other single player games. The simple nature of this game is its shining characteristic, I love this game, and I think you will too.