Okay, one cheap hit I can deal with, but when one pushes you into another it becomes really annoying. Beavis and Butt-Head are not role models.
They're not even human. They're cartoon characters. Some of the things they do would cause a person to get hurt, expelled, arrested, possibly deported.
To put it another way: Don't try this at home. Well, actually, you can try it at home now. It was a long time coming, but it looks like developer New Level has gotten something of a handle on the whole thing.
Humor is obviously the most important element of any game starring these two. Yes you need the graphics to be recognizable, but underneath all of the icing you need to ensure that the underlying game is rooted firmly in adolescent, ridiculous humor.
Set in Hollywood after the guys have finished work on their next movie, they find that they don't have any money with which to get home, so they have to take odd-jobs on the film sets in order to make cash.
At its heart it's a fairly simple 3D graphic adventure with smallish locations that each contain tasks that meld platform elements with puzzles and stupid jokes. The gameplay in itself isn't particularly hilarious although some of the puzzles are reasonably chuckleworthy but what really shines is the interaction between Beavis and Butt-head. You don't just control one character or the other, you actually control both. By switching between the two, you can manipulate objects, lure things, push things around and distract people.
It's not spectacularly original in concept, but it's refreshing to see the idea used in this context. What makes it all so much more fun though, is the fact that the two guys are constantly abusing each other.
And I mean constantly. If they're not slapping each other around or calling each other "buttmunch," they're venting their anger out of the game toward the player. Thankfully, like this month's cover-star South Park , enough speech is being recorded to ensure things don't get stale too quickly.
We are assured that literally hours of dialogue has been recorded so that as you go through the game you don't get completely sick and tired of the same "huh-huh-huh" sample playing over and over. Okay, so there are a few new mini-games that weren't on Virtual Stupidity -- if you played those games you'll know that it was a challenge to play them for more than a few minutes without becoming, like, really bored, yearning to get back to the business of getting Beavis and Butt-head into Todd's gang.
The three extra mini-games included in this CD apparently weren't good enough to make the cut into the momma CD. And the subtitle on this disk is tongue-in-cheek, I think "Action mini-games. In one of the three new games, you're supposed to change all the channels on a 9-screen wall of TVs to "something cool.
I'm sure Beavis kicks ass at this, but I'm not as smart as he is. Thank you, Drive Through, as a game, is not nearly as much fun as just hearing Beavis say it. There are two challenges, basically: 1 make Beavis throw food either left or right, and 2 throw something at a rat to kill him so Butt-head can put him into "special" burgers, which score even more points when you hit the customers.
In the other new game, Wrecked Balls, you control Beavis and try to catch a bunch of crap that Butt-head is throwing out the windows of an abandoned building. Every once in a while, this wrecking ball swings by and kills Beavis. This one's not as bad, even though I was only able to get it installed on one of the two machines I tried it on. It's a collection of ten custom desktops that feature all the possibilities: trashcan icons, cursors, sound events, and a new clock font.
You also get a nifty Magic 8-ball-esque "Decision Maker. Though this app killed the video driver on my primary machine a Toshiba Satellite Pro notebook , once I got it installed at work it turned out to be pretty much worth the wait. I'd guess that this disk required the most work by all involved, including Mike Judge. The data file is MB, so there's plenty of questions and animations to keep you entertained for a while. Basically, though, the game part sucks and the comments are cool as Butt-head says: "Sometimes you have to wait through some crap before something good happens.
No matter the price, these disks are not great values. The kind of entertainment you get is similar to what you see on TV -- nuggets of hilarity "wisdom is just the official way to say 'wiz"' hidden amid lowbrow dialogue and some fun animations -- but the games just aren't interesting enough to make me stick around looking for those nuggets.
The themes packed into Calling All Dorks are just Beavis and Butt-head for Beavis and Butt-head's sake -- I don't see much fun in my mouse pointer being the headbanger's hand symbol whatever that's called or having my default beep be Beavis saying "Where's Mr. Van Driessen? Otherwise, stay clear of these disks, dude. As in the SNES and Genesis games, the guys will be hot to dig out the dough to make it to the concert.
Beavis and Butt-Head inadvertently make a citizens' arrest, then proceed to attempt to arrest innocent people. Beavis and Butt-Head decide to pierce their own ears after being refused service at the local mall. Beavis and Butt-Head experience good fortune in the form of a day full of things that are cool. Mayhem and madness erupt on a beautiful day in Highland, but Beavis and Butt-head miss out on it. After seeing an infomercial with a bodybuilder, Beavis and Butt-head attempt to get into muscle man shape themselves.
After missing the bus and being forced to walk home from school, Beavis and Butt-Head decide to take a shortcut. Burger World initiates a new delivery service, which Beavis and Butt-head promptly bring to an end. Beavis and Butt-head use the table saw in their woodshop class to destroy everything that they can find.
Beavis finds an unopened can of root beer along the side of the highway, and Butt-head convinces him that it must be shook up before he opens it. This inspires the duo to try getting hit by more cars to make some money.
Beavis and Butt-head finally send Principal McVicker straight into a mental institution David Van Driessen stages a mock graduation to help students that he assumes to have low self-esteem, which Beavis and Butt-head take literally. In an untold incident, Beavis sets his rectum on fire and must be treated at the local hospital while Butt-head ruins a heart transplant. He forces them to write a report of how grateful they are of being Americans or risk getting their asses kicked. Beavis and Butt-Head contribute in their own special way to a student art display at the mall.
After the duo watches a milk commercial, they set off in an attempt to tip over a cow. Beavis and Butthead from the MTV animated series host this party quiz game with questions about them and the show.
Both characters are on their usual couch in front of the tv where questions will be shown with four possible answers. The player that buzzes in first when they know the answer gains a dollar amount for a correct answer or loses the same amount for an incorrect one.
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