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Game Information
- Platform: Windows, Mac
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 3
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- Based on the award-winning The Incredible Machine franchise
- Sequel to the critically acclaimed Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions
- 250 Brand new never-before-seen puzzles
- Beautifully rendered and detailed graphics and 3-D perspective
- New and improved Head-to-Head play is more exciting and challenging
- 5 levels of play: easy, medium, difficult, expert, and two player
- One CD designed for PC, MAC and PDA
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
This fantastic program will have your brain working as hard as a mandrill on a conveyer belt with bananas dangling in front of it. Don't worry, we'll explain. The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions gives players dozens of tools that perform an action: balls that bounce, cats that chase (and don't bounce), pulleys, ropes, generators, and yes, mandrill baboons on conveyer belts, bananas a-dangle in front of them. Then players are given a problem to solve with all of this crazy energy.
Here's an example: in one puzzle called "Wood is Good," players must get three balls into a box, make wooden toast, and wood-smoke a hunk of gouda cheese for a mouse. Among the tools available to accomplish this task are a bike pump and an antigravity pad. And this is one of the easy puzzles.
There are 250 gizmos to build here, some designed for single players and some designed for head-to-head puzzling competition. There is also a field where players can design their own Rube Goldberg Machine from scratch. The vast amount of projects and their complexity make this a program with staying power.
Mercifully, there is a tutorial that takes rookies and right-brainers in hand. Players can choose four levels of difficulty: easy, which is quite challenging; to expert, which is insane. Mitigating the challenge factor is a function that turns the cursor into a question mark, and allows players to inspect gadget elements and get in-depth information about what each object and surface does.
This program's biggest strength is that it manages to put a humorous and creative spin on physics and engineering. They're not just giving you levers and weights to work with, they're giving you bottle rockets and alligators. A final wonderful point: there is no "right way" to build your contraption. If you scrabble something together that achieves the goal, it's right, no matter if you used the antigravity pad on the cat or on the bowling ball. --Anne Erickson
Manufacturer's Description
The award-winning legacy of The Incredible Machine Series continues. The newest instalment, The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions, combines 250 brand new puzzles, PDA compatibility for puzzle solving on the move, a more entertaining head-to-head mode, the ability to swap puzzles with the world over the Internet, and an updated easy-to-user interface. Even More Contraptions challenges you to solve outrageous puzzles by creating wildly imaginative devices to perform simple but zany tasks on your PC.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
After reading the reviews, I do not believe this game was made for children. I am a 20 year old puzzle-holic and I am finding the levels challenging (but enjoyable & addictive). I would recommend this game for all ages, children or adults. The game has 5 stages (tutorial, easy, medium, difficult and expert) as well as 2 player head-to-head puzzles. If you get frustrated on a level, you can move on to the next one and come back to it later. Also, if you need a break from the game, you can create your own puzzle and either make puzzles for your friends, experiment with certain objects in the game or enjoy messing about and place objects just anywhere (things you daren't do in real life).
The tutorials tend to go on forever and you start to think "When does the game start?". Nevertheless, this is probably because the game was intended for children and I wouldn't let this put you off buying it as you will get through the tutorials, eventually.
As for a child's points off view, the game is good because as well as clear written instructions, everything is spoken out clearly. Therefore, if you are buying this game for a younger child, there are no complicated words to read.
Overall, if you are looking for something to challenge your brain and something enjoyable, Contraptions is a good choice.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I played the original "The Incredible Machine" years ago and enjoyed it so much it was a shame when I lost it. However, when I bought "Contraptions: Return of the Incredible Machine" I was delighted. Now the sequel to that is out, with 250 more puzzles, it is even better. The tutorials get you into the game, the easy ones ease you in and then the rest challenge you. The added features of the puzzle creator allow you to challenge your friends and you can now send them over the internet.
If you want a challenging game that you'll keep coming back to, this is the one.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Having just finished a night playing the demo of this game all i can say is i am tired and my brain hurts. The graphics may not be cutting edge but the gameplay certainly is! Lets face it, how many games put together a baboon and a mouse, a little man called mel and nitroglycerene? Sounds like a squeeky MELotoff cocktail to me! If you like puzzlers with a difference you wont be disappointed! FANTASTIC!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
inventing fun
This is an excellent program for children (and adults) to learn about gears, pulleys, generators etc, and to invent machines that would be a bit more difficult to do in real life-... Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2008 by K. Saxby
If you liked 'Contraptions' this is more of the same
This is a copy of my review for 'Contraptions' but is equally valid here:
Other reviewers explain the game and the format in some detail, so all I'll do is echo their... Read more
Other reviewers explain the game and the format in some detail, so all I'll do is echo their... Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2008 by A. J. Sturgess
More of the same but who's complaining?!
I played the original TIM what seems like years ago, and I must admit I thought that this new incarnation would leave me cold. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2001 by J. Quantrill
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