World of Goo

World of Goo

Binding : CD-ROM
ProductGroup : Video Games
Manufacturer : Brighter Minds
Brand : BRIGHTER MINDS
Label : Brighter Minds
Publisher : Brighter Minds
Model : 61275
Platform : Macintosh
Studio : Brighter Minds
ReleaseDate : 2008-10-12

List Price: USD $19.99
Lowest New Price: USD $16.95

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Features:

• 47 beautiful levels backed with a spell binding soundtrack
• 10 different types of goo, each with their own unique abilities
• Use balloons to steady your creation or give your structure flight!
• A huge variety of different puzzles and situations
• "Beautiful, fun, and one of the highlights of this year" - PC Gamer

Product Description
The millions of Goo Balls that live in the beautiful World of Goo are curious to explore -- but they don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious. Drag and drop living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues so that you can direct the Goo Balls to their goal on the other end of the stage.

Massive Online Competition - Human players around the world compete in a living leaderboard to build the tallest towers of goo in World of Goo Corporation's mysterious sandbox

Customer Reviews

What a Gem (2009-02-25)
Played the Wii Ware version at a friend's house.

Great game that's not overly fancy in graphics, it's affordable, challenging in ways that requires the players to think.

Huzzah! For the independent game developers.

Non-DRM (2009-02-19)
EA? Are you listening? This game gets a 5 all around for many reasons, but even if I hated the game, it would sit on my shelf gathering dust in honor, for the simple fact that is has absolutely no DRM. No passwords, no copy protection, no SecureCrotch, no SafeDix, nothing. Extremely addictive, nice graphics, and completely worth every penny. Screw you EA.

Brilliant, really, really Brilliant. (2009-02-18)
This game is unbelievable. It is very challenging (but accessible) to my 6 year old, and to me as well. What a brilliant way to teach problem solving skills. A month after we got this (a christmas present 2008) the teachers started calling him "the problem solver" at school and I doubt they were doing engineering problems in 1st grade.

Goo (2009-02-16)
This game is so fun. I never knew I knew so much about physics.

Simple mechanics, great gameplay (2009-02-14)
I was a casual fan of the free prototype "Tower of Goo" from a few years back, but I quickly forgot about it. Fast forward to a few months ago, when I decided to pick up this game based primarily on the word of reviewers. I don't regret it.

While this game has the same mechanics as its prototype (i.e. mouse-driven building), the developers have cleverly expanded on the idea with new "goo" types and fairly devious physics puzzles. In fact, there were a few times that I was downright frustrated by the "physics" of the game. Due to the "gooey" nature of the buildings, I often underestimated the strength of my creations which led to several collapsed structures. The limited "undo" and "skip level" functions helped ease my frustrations. The story (conveyed through in-game text and simple cut-scenes) is pretty forgettable, but does provide hints and helps flesh out the already-vibrant world. My only real complaint is that the game is too short.

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