Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures

The Game Room
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Telltale Games- who has pretty much certified themselves as the king of point-and-click adventures with their episodic series starring Sam and Max and Strong Bad- yesterday released the first episode in their latest episodic series, Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventures. The clumsy British inventor and his suffering dog have made the leap to episodic adventure gaming, and I would say they succeeded.

Having played through the first episode, I must say it feels very much like an interactive Wallace and Gromit cartoon- there are a lot of funny gags and a lot of action. Not surprisingly, Wallace has made a new invention, but it soon goes awry, and it’s up to poor Gromit to save the day. And like all good Wallace and Gromit adventures, it even ends with an action sequence. Some interesting and funny new characters add to the fun, too.

As much as I like Strong Bad, I think the first Wallace episode was even more entertaining and fun to play than the entire Strong Bad series. If you’re a fan of adventure gaming in the old-timey LucasArts vein, Wallace and Gromit, or both, this series is definitely worth the purchase-and-download. Cracking game, Telltale!

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Is the price listed for the entire series, or per episode?

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The price listed is for the complete series of four episodes. Once the series ends, you also have the option of having a disc with all four episodes sent to you for cost of shipping.

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I played through this today and rather enjoyed it.

Not as good as Sam and Max, but better then Strong Bad. I was wondering how they were going to handle the fact that Gromit doesn’t talk when trying to get across “I can’t use there things together”, though it appears to work rather well with just facial expressions.

I love how they translated the art style to a video game.

It is rather annoying that Wallace can be rather useless at times(and can’t just out and say “Lady, I need the teabag on your chest”). However, it’s in character for him so It’s only a minor annoyance.

What I don’t get is how come Gromit can wander around town even with the Bee infestation, but Wallace can’t seem to get out to his front lawn(other the fact he’s in his underwear)?