de Blob

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Fighting the forces of drabness

Another neat touch (and one that plenty of sandbox games could learn from) is radar that swivels around de Blob himself. Like a glowing belt suspended in midair, points of interest - challenges, paint pots and so on - hang on it in the general direction you should head. It certainly comes into its own when you’re inked by an enemy and develop the sudden need to find a fountain in which to clean yourself. Fail to reach one in time and our poor Blob will waste away to nothing, polluting the landscape with oily black in the process.

Then there’s the multiplayer. It offers variations on the painting theme (from paint free-for-alls to a race to such-and-such a building), and the language leaving our lips was far from child-friendly as we cavorted across roof tops aiming to splatter rival turf with our own gang colours. De Blob couldn’t be further from an Average Joe game.

Mar 19, 2008