![]() ![]() It’s very, very difficult for a video game to do absolutely nothing right, so we’ll start with the few saving graces.Ī generous helping of the TV show’s brilliant music, which lifts the game and evokes the Doctor Who experience. It fails both on so many macro and micro levels that it’s hard to know where to start listing them. Unfortunately, almost everything this game has to offer is, at its rare best, mediocre… and at worst? To say this game is a disappointing mess doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of legitimate complaints. The basic premise of the game lacks inspiration but is a decent enough foundation upon which to build a decent game. The player swaps back and forth to solve simple puzzles and avoid enemies along the way. The more slender Amy is the one who crawls into tight places and steps gingerly over dangerous ground. The Doctor is the “muscle” of the pair and is responsible for things like pushing giant blocks around (interesting choice considering that the Doctor is not known for feats of strength does this guy look like “muscle” to you?). The player controls the Doctor and companion Amy Pond from a 3/4-top down vantage point, and will switch control back and forth between the two. Along the way you encounter more of his famous foes such as the Cybermen and Silurians as you work your way through puzzle after puzzle and maze after maze (though there’s very little exposition on why those enemies are where they are they’re just “there”). An innocent space-faring family has been abducted by an evil alien known as a Dalek (the Doctor’s longest-running arch enemy), and he has set out to rescue them. The Doctor Who property has become the jewel of the BBC crown, with a fervent, world-wide fan base and no signs of slowing down any time soon.ĭoctor Who: The Mazes of Time is an iOS game for iPad or iPhone/iPod touch that puts you in the role of the Doctor (as portrayed by Matt Smith in this current iteration) and his companion, Amy Pond (Karen Gillan). Along with a companion (typically hot female human), he travels through space and time in his TARDIS a time machine disguised as a blue phone box that’s mysteriously bigger on the inside. Launched by the BBC in 1963 and on the air ever since (despite a pause from 1989 to 2005), the show chronicles the ongoing adventures of a human-looking alien “Time Lord” who calls himself the Doctor. For those who aren’t aware, Doctor Who is one of the longest-running TV shows in history. It’s been my favorite TV show since 1978, and I hold all Doctor Who games to a very high standard. When it comes to Doctor Who, I don’t kid around. ![]()
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