Review: Bomb Disposal Expert
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Bomb Disposal Expert – Puzzle & Trivia – 80 Points – Download
Hollywood has made many war movies over the years, but none has focused so exclusively on addiction to danger than The Hurt Locker. The well-received 2009 film follows a US bomb-disposal team as they move through Baghdad defusing bombs of various types. It’s gripping and powerful, a critique of war and the societies that make war possible.
Imagine then, if the bombs in the film had been like the bombs in the Xbox Live Indie game, Bomb Disposal Expert. Each bomb has four lights, and they flash in a pattern. You tap out that pattern, using your hand-controller. Do that a few times, and you defuse the bomb. Then you move onto another bomb. I didn’t like Simon Says when I was 10 years old, and I like it even less now.
I’m being a little harsh. The game is pretty polished, and it adds a few wrinkles like mirrors and direction changes. There’s an arcade mode, and a career mode, and even support for (sort-of) multi-player. The graphics aren’t badly done, the music is fine, the menus are a bit clunky, but they work. But it’s not enough.
The developers, Evolution Dreams Studio, can definitely do better - watch this space for a forth-coming review of their excellent game Planet Delta. But Bomb Disposal Expert is a one-trick pony, and you see the trick in the first ten seconds. And then you’re done.
The ultimate disappointment? It doesn’t even have animation or sound when the bomb blows up; it has a message box. Bomb Game Fail.
A one-trick pony, and you see the trick in the first ten seconds.
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