World of Goo

The World of Goo is built around by the concept of creating structures using balls of goo to overcome hills, cliffs and other distractions. The objective of the game is rather simple and that is to find way for a blob of Goo to an exit to pipes that suck them up. And to do that, is to select the spherical sprouting blobs and turn them into nodules resulting in to frameworks and stretched support to crossover cliffs perhaps.

The 2D Boy developed game is bestowed to be the next casual gaming obsession after the Tetris era and what made it rather obsessive is the excitement it brings to players. As each level requires players to save a specified number of Goo balls to move on next round. You have to be creative in saving the Goo balls, as you do not want to do things all over again and again repeatedly.

Good

• Mind boggling puzzle game that develops players’ sense of creativity that is easy to play but hard to master. For one, when you create towers or bridges you need to make sure that it doesn’t collapse and needs to do some sort of simple calculation regarding the degrees and angles of supports.
• The game offers varied levels offering and sports different types of Goos for the different objectives – such as the Green Goo (moveable), Yellow Goo (vertical), Black Goo (rigid), and White Goo (hanging).
• The atmosphere and soundtrack is cool it does offer a well blended pop and jazz genre of music. The music automatically switches tempo as you enter another level ensuring an extremely lively and not boring game.

Bad

• A few issue with the controls such as the drag and drop mechanics may sometimes be not so responsive.
• It would have been fun if it offers a multiplayer capability, but unfortunately id doesn’t. However, the online presence such as uploading scores and showing how players built towers has compensated it.
• Visuals may not be as appealing to the naked eyes. There were many dark areas of the course of the game and it is too cartooned this normally results to some Black Goos are not clearly seen in certain levels.

In general at Videogamefreaks, we are rating this game at 8.0 since flaws are too minor. Definitely this is one of the most addictive puzzle game after the Lemmings and Tetris era!