class after another. The
chatty narrators grow
tiresome in their attempts to hype you up,
especially considering
there's no real reason to
do so: Horizon 2's atmosphere bursts with
adrenaline and enthusiasm. At festival hubs,
laser lights flash across
the sky, ferris wheels
brighten the horizon,
and throngs of celebratory crowds cheer your
arrival loudly enough to
provide lift to the helium
balloons
hovering
above. "Cars are awesome and you're awesome!" proclaims Forza
Horizon 2.
Sherlock
Holmes:
Crimes and Punishments is Ukrainian developer Frogwares' seventh
attempt
at an-
swering that question
and also its most successful. The key, as it
turns out, is not in recreating the powers of
The World's Greatest
Detective Who Isn't Also
Batman, but in letting
the player decide just
how those powers are
used.
Bin Weevils is an
online
multi
player
game aimed at children.
You create a weevil with
your unique appearance and colouring, and
have a home (nest).
Here you can furnish it
and invite others to your
nest. To buy things in
the game, you need
mulch (money). This is
obtained by completing
puzzles, quizzes, growing
and
harvesting
plants and selling unwanted items. All this is
free to play, but you can
opt to become a tycoon
and pay a subscription.
This allows greater
choices, more rooms,
bigger gardens etc.
This book goes into de-
tail about the game
from start to finish. It explains in detail the various rooms, games, options with easy to read
script and full colour diagrams.
There are some games
to do in the book, but
there are other books
especially for this. The
answers of a few will
revel a code to enter
online for a prize for
your nest.
Parents need to know
that the Moshi Monsters
virtual world site is more
entertainment than educational. Kids take care
of cute little creatures
and earn points to "buy"
stuff for their computerbased pet while being
introduced to online social networking. There
are numerous ways for
kids to interact here, although most of the site's
focus seems to be on
playing games, caring
for your own pet, and
decorating your own virtual world.