Rock, Paper, Shotgun

EA’s slick-looking physics contraptions puzzler is out on the 19th for PC download, and the main website can be found here. I’ve had a bit of a fiddle with Create this morning and I can report that it’s extremely slick and accessible. Fortunately for us there’s a 500mb demo, too, so you can corroborate my wild claims. The full game has a mighty level editor, to allow you to make your own puzzles in a decent amount of depth, as well as decorate and tweak the core game levels as you see fit. Not exactly something I am likely to sink my life into, but I like how the levels are tidy but undecorated, so that players can lay down detail as they work on the puzzles.

I’ve posted the launch trailer below. For £20 it’s not looking like a bad little game.
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UPDATE: Trailer embedded below.
Interesting-looking family game? Yes, I am typing those words. Which makes me uncomfortable. And a bit uncertain about life. Anyway, Create from EA’s Play studio is a multiplayer puzzle game for which the theme of “creativity”. Explanatory video on the website shows it to be a bunch of painting, level-furnishing, simple tinkering, and physics tweakiness, and could be fairly interesting. Solutions to particular levels can be unique, and clever ones can be uploaded and shared via the website. The EA release says: “The more players explore the game, solve level-based challenges, and customize their world, the more rewards will be unlocked. Creativity will be unleashed as players design environments with easy-to-use brushes and tools, including textures, props and animating objects that bring the scene to life.” The game is due for the “holiday”. The fun is guessing which one.
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