GAME STUDIO DESCRIPTION: Step inside the magical world of Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory. Based on the Warner Bros. Pictures feature film directed by Tim Burton and the classic Roald Dahl book, this new videogame allows players to explore deep inside the factory and play the beloved story as Charlie Bucket. Find a Golden Ticket and, along with four other children, win a personal tour of Willy Wonka’s factory guided by the notorious and reclusive candy-maker himself. Embark on a fantastic adventure exploring the many extraordinary environments of the factory, including some from the book that do not appear in the film. Discover what happens after the other children, greed-driven and unrestrained, wreak havoc throughout the factory. Then save the chocolate factory from their destruction by solving mystifying puzzles and using inventive candy powers. By helping the Oompa-Loompas and restoring order to the factory, Charlie can earn the respect of Willy Wonka and win an unexpected prize!
* Acquire incredible abilities by using fantastic new candies in order to save the factory
* Creative and interactive environments, based on the visual style of the film, fully immerse players in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory story
* Stop the “rotten” children from causing chaos and destruction throughout the candy factory
* Repair huge, bizarre candy-making machines by solving puzzles and enlisting the help of the Oompa-Loompas
* Explore numerous rooms and environments inside Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory
PLAY: The controls aren’t intuitive. It’s obviously a kid’s game as most of the controls are extremely generic.
You work as Charlie and have many different avenues of gameplay—from managing the Oompa-Loompas to helping Willy Wonka. No matter what you are doing or orchestrating it’s all relatively simple and yet exceedingly disconcerting. Leading the Oompa-Loompas sounds like more fun than it really is—you can only imagine that this would have been much better as a sim.
GRAPHICS: What should be a visual feast is more like a visual nightmare. The visuals seem thrown together and the camera is completely unforgivable.
SOUND: The soundtrack is decent—too bad it doesn’t always fit the scene that you are in.
FRANKLY: What kills Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the end is the lack of execution. There are elements that don’t seem well thought out—such as luring robots into a chute which doesn’t work without luck. No game should be based on luck. Why not just make the lottery a video game?
+ Richie Wright
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