Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
These comic book heroes have never looked quite so adorable as they do in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.
LOVED IT: Fun to experiment with superheroes, easy to get into, Hero Creator is a blast
HATED IT: The game doesn’t always play the way you might expect, no touch support on PC
GRAB IT IF: You want to build your own superheroes, and can put up with logic annoyances
The beauty of the Scribblenauts series has long been in its limitless possibilities, the way you could create and edit and formulate just about anything. So you’d think that mixing all that creative power with a massive suite of DC Comics superheroes would make things even better, right?
Not quite. In Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure, one of the cutest series from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment trips up ever so slightly. This latest Scribblenauts game is still fun, but it doesn’t quite reach the lofty heights of its predecessors.
If you’re not familiar with the Scribblenauts series, here’s your primer: You’ll essentially go through a series of puzzles, and you solve them with words. Anything you can write can appear before your eyes and be used as you see fit, and in previous years, that meant you could call for a cow, a car, or even God to solve various puzzles.
This year, it means you can also call for Superman, Batman or any of the vast collection of included heroes. Those big names are joined by several names that only comic diehards would know, such as Lobo and Plastique.
Each is recreated in Scribblenauts’ cutesy art style, and it’s fun to summon heroes just to see how this game has imagined them.
The best part of the experience just may be the Hero Creator. Here, you can build your own heroes, stripping pieces and powers from other heroes to create your own star. There’s plenty of freedom to be creative here, and it’s a blast to share your creations on Steam.
It’s a shame the game’s puzzles don’t reach those same heights. The game plays out simply, and you, as regular series star Maxwell, will call on superheroes to help citizens, gradually increasing your reputation and opening more and more historic DC locations.
Thing is, the puzzles don’t always play out as they should. For some odd reason, Superman might not use his heat vision to melt ice cubes, and it’ll take you awhile to figure out why. Inconsistencies abound, and eventually, they grow frustrating.
Still, there’s enough cutesy fun in here to keep you going for awhile. No, Scribblenauts Unmasked isn’t quite as super as its predecessors. But it still can be plenty of fun.
Reviewed on Sony Vaio Pro
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