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Wall:E is the latest ‘kid’s’ movie from Disney Pixar.  The plot, from what I’ve gleaned from the game seems to be: The world has been gripped by consumerism which has resulted in it looking like a rubbish dump.  Wall:E a kind of rubbish crunching and sorting machine has been sent to Earth to sort out the mess.  The aim of the game is to move through the levels and save the world, i believe there’s also a little romance later on.

Unfortunately we didn’t get to ‘later on’.  Wall:E is a platform game, for those not in the know, it’s the kind of game where you move through the game via levels a bit like Sonic or Alex the Kid (showing my age).  Once upon a fifteen years ago I was OK at these type of games, not now, I suffered from extreme lack of patience and as would become obvious, problem-solving skills.  I gave up during the first level, yes, the FIRST level when I couldn’t figure out how to get up on a ramp…

Alex took over, which gave me a chance to see the game ‘from a distance’.   It’s a decent game, challenging and fun with a good background story (it’s whetted my appetite for the movie).  The graphics are amazing, unlike the cockroach which is just plain irritating.

Thanks to Hill and Knowlton for sending me a copy to test out.  I’d recommend this game for 7-10 year olds.  In fact we are going to give our copy to a friend’s son who is seven, he’ll definitely give it a more rigorous testing than us!