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Super Meat Boy

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Windows Vista / 7 / XP  Ages 12 and Over
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  • Platform:   Windows Vista / 7 / XP
  • BBFC Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over.
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1

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  • ASIN: B00505EQBY
  • Item Weight: 481 g
  • Release Date: 26 Aug 2011
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 997 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)

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Edition: Rare Edition

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Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat and designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, and is the successor to McMillen and Jonathan McEntee's flash game, Meat Boy, originally released in October 2008. Super Meat Boy was released on Xbox Live Arcade on October 20, 2010, and on Windows on November 30, 2010. Versions for Mac and Linux are planned for future release. The game follows Meat Boy as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the villainous Dr. Fetus through over 300 levels filled with deadly hazards.

The game received acclaim from critics. It received the award for Most Challenging Game from IGN in 2010 and also received awards for Best Downloadable Game from GameSpot and GameTrailers that same year. Critics lauded the game's precise control, unique retro art style, and soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky. Reviewers generally praised the game's high difficulty, though some warned that not all consumers would appreciate the difficult levels. The game has been a commercial success, having sold more than 600,000 copies.

The game sees players taking on the role of a small, skinless, cube-shaped character named Meat Boy, who must save his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the evil Dr. Fetus. The game is divided into multiple chapters, which together contain over 300 levels. Players must guide Meat Boy to the end of each level while avoiding buzzsaws, salt, and various other fatal obstacles. The player can jump and run, and can stick to walls in order to either jump off of them or to slide down them. The core gameplay can be compared to many traditional platformers such as Mega Man and N, requiring fine control and split-second timing.

Levels in each chapter can be played in any order, but a certain number of levels need to be completed to access the boss stage, which unlocks the next chapter if cleared. The player has an unlimited number of attempts to complete each level; if Meat Boy is killed he immediately restarts the level, though the red blood left behind on surfaces that the player has touched remains. Completing a level within a certain time will earn an "A+" grade, which unlocks a harder alternate level in the "dark world". In addition to these, there are hidden warp zones, accessed by finding portals in specific levels. These feature retro styled bonus levels, which have a limit of three lives or are patterned after another video game. Clearing certain warp zones or collecting enough bandages, which are hidden within the game's levels, unlocks guest characters from other indie games. There is also a replay function, accessed after a level has been completed, which shows all of the player's attempts at completing the level simultaneously.

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Ultra Rare Edition Bonus Material Includes:

  • Soundtrack
  • Sketch Book
  • Full Comic
  • Poster
  • Exclusive SMB T-Shirt

Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat and designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes, and is the successor to McMillen and Jonathan McEntee's flash game, Meat Boy, originally released in October 2008. Super Meat Boy was released on Xbox Live Arcade on October 20, 2010, and on Windows on November 30, 2010. Versions for Mac and Linux are planned for future release. The game follows Meat Boy as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the villainous Dr. Fetus through over 300 levels filled with deadly hazards.

The game received acclaim from critics. It received the award for Most Challenging Game from IGN in 2010 and also received awards for Best Downloadable Game from GameSpot and GameTrailers that same year. Critics lauded the game's precise control, unique retro art style, and soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky. Reviewers generally praised the game's high difficulty, though some warned that not all consumers would appreciate the difficult levels. The game has been a commercial success, having sold more than 600,000 copies.

The game sees players taking on the role of a small, skinless, cube-shaped character named Meat Boy, who must save his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the evil Dr. Fetus. The game is divided into multiple chapters, which together contain over 300 levels. Players must guide Meat Boy to the end of each level while avoiding buzzsaws, salt, and various other fatal obstacles. The player can jump and run, and can stick to walls in order to either jump off of them or to slide down them. The core gameplay can be compared to many traditional platformers such as Mega Man and N, requiring fine control and split-second timing.

Levels in each chapter can be played in any or


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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Well Done 28 Dec 2011
Edition:Rare Edition
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In the genuinely entertaining manual/sketchbook/comic that accompanies this package, there are some ruminations on the topic of hardcore platformers - specifically the ingredients that make a good one. What this largely boils down to is the difference between `challenge' and `frustration': the former provokes that teeth-gnashing, knuckle-whitening, just-one-more-go reaction with which all gamers should be familiar, whilst the latter leads to nothing more than broken gamepads and sulking.

Fortunately, the awesomely anagrammatical Team Meat are fully aware of this difference, and have created a blood-soaked beast of a game that will punish you over and over for the slightest mistake, but still - through cunning level design, well-balanced risk/reward systems and honest to goodness fun - makes you come back for more.

Putting you in the shoes of a boy made of raw meat, whose girlfriend (made of bandages) has been stolen by an evil foetus in a jar (yes, yes, just go with it...), Super Meat Boy sees you braving landscapes of buzzsaws, discarded medical waste, heaps of salt and other such things that may cause much consternation to the meaty gent, resulting in a messy death.

You WILL die. A lot. Of that there is no doubt. Infinite lives make this less of a concern, but that does not make the game easy. Progress is often made by inches, with carnage in your wake. Meat Boy leaves a trail of blood on any surface he touches (or, as it often the case, dies next to), giving the player a useful visual guide that shows how much progress has thus far been made, or where that last fatal mistake occurred. This visual, combined with the small level size, means that, while success may repeatedly evade your grasp, the means to your end remains in sight, thus bringing about the clenched-fist, come-and-have-a-go-if-you-think-you're-hard-enough attitude that marks out the very best platform games, from Manic Miner to Mario.

Super Meat Boy is an essential purchase for those of us who grew up with videogames in the 80s and have been pining ever since for such purity of level design and challenge. Just as well, really, as the un-PC content and gory glee of the game makes it somewhat unsuitable for the young'uns.

As well as the game itself (which, by the by, needs to be activated online via Steam, so don't expect it to work straight out of the box), this package contains the aforementioned booklet (by turns childishly amusing and properly educational and interesting), a double-sided poster (your choice of Meat Boy's grin and a piece of musclebound fantasy art Boris Vallejo would weep over), a nicely-crafted and mildly disturbing t-shirt (size: roomy) and all manner of bonus content, including the game's lusciously retro soundtrack, concept art, wallpapers and other such frippery.

All in all, this is a meaty slab o' goodness, packed with flavour and dripping with quality. Dig in!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Cooked to perfection 19 Sep 2011
Edition:Rare Edition
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The best collector's edition you can desire for a game as beautiful as Meat Boy. The box itself is extremely good looking and will surely make a great impression on your guests; The T-shirt is really nice, confortable and comes with an XL (more like an XXL ) so that almost everyone could fit in; the poster is double-sided so that you can choose a big meat-grin or the "extremely-realistic-old-school-style" painted by a really awesome artist.
At last, but not least, we got this awesome... err... "Art-book" with nice reference and art (on the bad side the text sometimes is really tiny); in addition, included with the game you'll find the amazing soundtrack and some nice papercraft and pictures.

Buy this, and you will not regret it, the price is very low for its content.
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Please be aware that this has to be activated online. i'm not sure if it mentions this on here but i thought you should know. Ok on with the review. I love tihs game its fast furious and you actually get a sense of achievement when you complete that level that has been bugging you for 20+ attempts. I love the T-shirt it means i can dress up like my Xbox live avatar hehe
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