Product Description

One small robot.  One giant adventure.



Race, fly and shoot as you take robots WALL-E and EVE through a fast-pacedadventure.  From the desolate wastelands of Earth to the Axiom spacecruiser, throw cubes and avoid obstacles while you explore worlds filled withnon-stop action and adventure, along with multi-player challenges.  Dodgedangerous enemies, carry out intense missions and navigate your way through afuturistic galaxy!

• Relive some of the movies most thrilling moments
• Use WALL-E's laser to destroy enemies and repair objects
• Play as both WALL-E and EVE
• Play with friends in Multi-player challenges
• Blast enemies and obstacles
• Explore action packed worlds
• Race through the galaxy to save the planet

• Windows XP, Vista
• Pentium 4 1.5 GHz or Athlon Equivalent processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• 2 GB free Hard Drive space
• 64 MB Video Memory with Pixel Shader 1.1 Support
• DirectX Compatible Sound Card
• DirectX 9.0c
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• DVD-ROM Drive

• Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or more recent
• G 1200 MHz processor
• 256 MB of RAM
• 2 GB Hard Disk space
• DirectX 9.0c
• 64 MB Nvidia GeForce FX/ATI Radeon 9600 Video Card
• 16-bit Sound Blaster compatible Sound Card
• 6X DVD-ROM drive

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5442 in Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Model: 49333
• Released on: 2008-06-24
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .75" h x 5.25" w x 7.50" l, .20 pounds

Features

• Enjoy new storylines and explore massive environments not seen in the film.
• Play as WALL•E and EVE as you interact with a multitude of robots & characters.
• Huge variety of game play on over 9 action-packed levels.
• Features major movie “Voice” talent, including Ben Burtt.
• Development lead by Heavy Iron Studios, an award winning internal studio.

Amazon.com
Released concurrently with the Pixar/Disney major motion picture release of the same name, WALL·E is the story of the little robot that could.

Due to rampant consumerism, sometime in the near future, the Earth is so covered with trash and pollution that it forces an exodus off the planet. But before humanity departs they build millions of little robots programmed to clean up the planet. Unfortunately, the cleanup program doesn’t go quite as planned, leaving the cleanup solely in the hands of our little robot hero WALL·E and his love interest EVE.

The last little robot on Earth

Interact with all Earth's creatures. View larger.

Explore nine action-packed levels. View larger.

Gameplay
Race, blast and navigate as you take futuristic robots WALL·E and EVE through a fast-paced adventure. From the desolate waste-lands of Earth to the Axiom space cruiser, throw cubes and blast robots and obstacles while you relive some of the movie’s most thrilling moments and explore 9 worlds filled with non-stop action and adventure, along with head-to-head multiplayer challenges. Dodge dangerous enemies, carry out intense missions and navigate your way through a futuristic galaxy to save the planet!

Features:

• Re-live some of the movie’s most thrilling moments.
• Enjoy new storylines and explore massive environments not seen in the film.
• Play as WALL·E and EVE as you interact with a multitude of robots & characters
  • WALL·E compacts trash to create powerful cubes and uses them to alter the environment, solve puzzles and defeat enemies.
  • EVE has fast-flying action and exploration with shooter-flight game play.
  • Both can use lasers to blast enemies and obstacles
• Huge variety of game play on over 9 action-packed levels.
• Shooting, flying, racing, co-op play, navigational challenges, and even arcade style games.
• Multi-player challenges (up to 4 person multi-player) and tons of mini-games & activities.
• Features major movie "Voice" talent, including Ben Burtt.
• Development lead by Heavy Iron Studios, an award winning internal studio (Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer)

Customer Reviews

Recommended for younger audiences only
First and foremost Wall-E appears to be a port of the PlayStation 2 version of the game. As a result, the graphics suffer in much the same way that the do with the recent PC versions of the Iron Man and Hulk games. Wall-E gives you the ability to increase the resolution, but that's about it. Definitely no next gen graphics to be seen here.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Graphics aren't everything, most of the enjoyment I get out of games is derived from gameplay. The only time I consider graphics in the equation is when two games offer similar gameplay. If the gameplay is largely the same then most people would prefer to play the game with the better graphics. With this in mind, you might be better off with the 360 or PS3 version of the game; unless graphics truly aren't important to you.

Moving on to the actual gameplay. Wall-E has a very simplistic control mechanism. There's a button to jump (more on this later), a button to shoot a laser, a button to toss objects, and a button to skrink down to a cube form. Each of these buttons allow you to perform one of about 4 things you'll do for the entire game.

1) Shoot red boxes with the laser
2) Shrink to a cube to break the other two kinds of boxes
3) Throw an object to destroy an out of reach box or hit a switch that allows you to continue with forward progress
4) Jump over obstacles

Other that those 4 things there really isn't that much more to this game. An area typically has a door that can be opened by supplying it with a certain number of energy units. You traverse the level to destroy the boxes that contain the energy units until you have enough to open the door. There are also other boxes that con be destroyed, but the only function they serve is to finish the game with a 100% completion rating.

There are hidden objects among the garbage in each level, but again the only real purpose they serve is to check them off the 100% completion list.

Jumping can be a bit cumbersome in this game. I really wouldn't describe the behavior as a jump. It's more of a fall forward movement. The object is to build up speed and fall forward to the next platform where how far you fall forward depends on how fast you are going. The game includes half pipe and half pipe transfers (a la Tony Hawk) to gain momentum for larger jumps. The jumping can be a bit unpredictable and difficult for younger gamers, so much so that they have run the risk of making the game unplayable for their target market. The devellopers should have made this system better, or reduced the focus of jumping from platform to platform, as each level relies heavily on jumping puzzles. One missed jump can mean a frustrating climb back up to where you originally fell off.

Speaking of falling, Wall-E also has the tendancey to "weave" instaead of simply moving in a straight line. This usually happens when attempting to move forward without being lined up in the direction you want to go before youstart moving. There is an adjustment period where Wall-E arcs in the direction you want to move. This becomes a problem when attempting to cross things like narrow bridges. One slight weave or arc while crossing can make you fall off any one of the several ledges found in the game.

There are also mini games that allow you to doors that provide access to yet more crates to destroy. The mini games take the form of simon says, image matching (make the readout on the left look like the readout on the right), and the memory card game where you try to match hidden pairs. These mini games are clearly intended for children. I've also noticed that sometimes you will have a panel with multiple buttons and no indicator as to which button Wall-E's finger is currently hovering over. You just have to work out which button is currently hovered over through trial an error, which leads to all sorts of problems when doing the memory matching puzzle.

There are other games intended for a younger audience that are still fun to play as an adult, the Lego games come to mind. Wall-E is not one of these games, and I would recommend this game for a younger audience only. I didn't find it all that engaging after about 15 minutes. There is a high level of repetition and you hit that Wall very early on.

Break three types of boxes, hit a switch, jump through to the next section. Maybe find a piece of garbage or two along the way, maybe not. That's the game.

Worst 3D game ever!
I received this as a Christmas gift because I liked the movie very much. I'm an experienced gamer (Quake, UT, etc) and this game has horrible controls. You HAVE to use the keyboard. Ever hear of mouselook? Plus the "camera" constantly rotates around Wall-E on its own and Wall-E's movements are in direct relation to the camera view. Forward isn't really forward in the direction Wall-E is pointing but rather where the camera is pointing. Given the constantly auto-changing camera views you can't get Wall-E (or EVE) to go in the direction you want him to go in. Many times this results in a dead Wall-E and causes endless repetitions of the same level. Save your money and do not buy this game!

Misses the mark.
My kids are 3 and 5 years old. Pixar did an incredible job making the movie meaningful and accessible to such young kids, but the same can't be said of this game. I would like to see a game that finds the middle ground between the crappy online games and this one. All my 5-year-old wants to do is be Wall-E, and make him move around and collect stuff in his little lunch cooler and explore. This game should have been aimed at a younger audience, with less emphasis on complicated (for a 5-year-old) controls/moves and more emphasis on fun. Do I enjoy playing it? Sure, but since it's just movie merchandise anyway, not Halo 4, why not cater to the audience that will get the most actual joy out of it?