Doodle Bomb

Michael E. | Jan 21, 2010 Games

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(5 votes, average: 3.60 out of 5)

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Bottle Rocket’s Doodle Bomb: Physics Puzzle with a Bang wasn’t the game I was expecting it would be. It was better. Much better. The game’s story is simple enough: You are a Doodle. But you’re not just any Doodle, you’re a Doodle Hero. But you’re not just any Doodle Hero. You’re The Doodle Hero, the one prophesied to restore peace and balance to a world of chaos.

How do you accomplish this? By becoming a Bomb Master, of course. Ironic? If you look at it from a certain point of view, I guess so. I chose not to.

The game consists of a series of missions (or puzzles) that must be solved by exploding your ever trusty, ever present bombs. You must throw bombs that, in the process of detonating, can activate or deactivate machines designed to move you closer to or farther away from your goal of opening doors that allow you to proceed to the next puzzle.

And did I mention the bomb-bouncing mice? No? Well, they’re in the game. Plus, you get to stun, maim, or kill Doodle soldiers.

Doodle Bomb features 50 total missions, 15 of which are designated as Master Missions. There is an in-game tutorial to guide you through your first few puzzle missions and then you’re on your own. The objective is to solve the puzzle within a predetermined number of bombs. The number of bombs can vary with each new mission. If you successfully solve the puzzle mission with the predetermined number of bombs, you’ll be awarded a bomb badge. If you exceed that number of bombs, you can “retake” the puzzle however many times it takes for you to earn your badge. Or, if you’d prefer, you can skip any regular puzzle mission in favor of the next one and come back to the one you skipped later. Each mission requires the right balance of timing, strategy, and bomb placement.

Doodle Bomb is fun, entertaining, and challenging. The game’s design is clean and although additional missions are currently in development, the replay value of the current missions is quite high. It’s the perfect game, whether you’ve got five or fifty minutes available.

But be careful. It’s addictive.

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