Baby Maker Extreme - Stegersaurus Games - Xbox Live Indie Marketplace - 80MSP ($1/£0.70)
Xbox.com link [http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/games/offers/00000000-0000-4000-8000-0000585504ae?cid=SLink]
Probably one of the oddest and strangest impulse plays for myself, I stumbled upon this one evening and was perplexed by what it was, "Baby Maker Extreme? Is this a game about the art of actually "making" babies? A construction game in the same vein as Spore but with babies? A strange tasteless game about mixing babies in a large smoothie maker? What ever it is, It's going to be Extreme", the curiously about the game from just the title.
How dismayed I was to find it was just another "angle + power = get as far down a hall" game, as seen on so many flash game sites, But the presentation is the winner here, from the strange loading screen which charts your movement towards the delivery room to the final push, the Avatar support is very odd, For me seeing a tiny man being fired out between a pair of legs, in a bowler hat with Steam punk goggles, is something that will continue to stay with me, mainly in the questions department, How did a baby get a hat? Did they push it up there hoping a foetus would be smart enough to pop it on? How did they get the goggles on correctly? do they make them in that size? Why does baby have a full beard?
To play, you have to tap the left and right triggers in time to generate air, then mash the B button (Helpfully with a second to get your hand in position to hammer away.) After the baby has been fired out, the A button dive bombs the baby towards the floor, allowing you to hit the Blue outlined objects in the environment, generating score and a all important boost. Boost (Via the X Button) allows the Bowler wearing baby to get more speed with a large change in angle usually meaning you smack into the ceiling. The trial version has a bit of an annoying brick wall in the way of.... a brick wall, stopping progress until you cough up the dough, the limitation comes quite early on and is a real turn off.
If your not wanting to launch your Avatar from the lady garden, you can use a stock baby which can be customized with some odd selections in gear, its all purely cosmetic and still strange.
Overall, this is a cheap few minutes thrill, It does however have a bigger purpose, a brilliant question generator, "Why doesn't it have any mucus on it?" "Where's the umbilical cord?", were just two mentioned by a friend who popped over and got just as curious as me when he saw it in my Library.
Give it a try if you got just as curious as me from the title alone.
Xbox.com link [http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/games/offers/00000000-0000-4000-8000-0000585504ae?cid=SLink]
Probably one of the oddest and strangest impulse plays for myself, I stumbled upon this one evening and was perplexed by what it was, "Baby Maker Extreme? Is this a game about the art of actually "making" babies? A construction game in the same vein as Spore but with babies? A strange tasteless game about mixing babies in a large smoothie maker? What ever it is, It's going to be Extreme", the curiously about the game from just the title.
How dismayed I was to find it was just another "angle + power = get as far down a hall" game, as seen on so many flash game sites, But the presentation is the winner here, from the strange loading screen which charts your movement towards the delivery room to the final push, the Avatar support is very odd, For me seeing a tiny man being fired out between a pair of legs, in a bowler hat with Steam punk goggles, is something that will continue to stay with me, mainly in the questions department, How did a baby get a hat? Did they push it up there hoping a foetus would be smart enough to pop it on? How did they get the goggles on correctly? do they make them in that size? Why does baby have a full beard?
To play, you have to tap the left and right triggers in time to generate air, then mash the B button (Helpfully with a second to get your hand in position to hammer away.) After the baby has been fired out, the A button dive bombs the baby towards the floor, allowing you to hit the Blue outlined objects in the environment, generating score and a all important boost. Boost (Via the X Button) allows the Bowler wearing baby to get more speed with a large change in angle usually meaning you smack into the ceiling. The trial version has a bit of an annoying brick wall in the way of.... a brick wall, stopping progress until you cough up the dough, the limitation comes quite early on and is a real turn off.
If your not wanting to launch your Avatar from the lady garden, you can use a stock baby which can be customized with some odd selections in gear, its all purely cosmetic and still strange.
Overall, this is a cheap few minutes thrill, It does however have a bigger purpose, a brilliant question generator, "Why doesn't it have any mucus on it?" "Where's the umbilical cord?", were just two mentioned by a friend who popped over and got just as curious as me when he saw it in my Library.
Give it a try if you got just as curious as me from the title alone.