Like Schrodinger's cats, these felines continue to exist in an unrealized potential state. Read Review
Blinx 2 puts players in a pitched battle for the shards of the Big Crystal, a powerful icon that's sought after by the pig-run Tom Tom Gang, but only truly understood by the feline-run Time Sweepers. In a change from the original, players take control of both the Time Sweepers and their mastery of time, and the Tom Tom Gang, who control space, switching to and fro between the two groups as the game progresses. But you don't actually play as Blinx himself. Artoon's game has expanded into non-traditional platform territories and plays more like a light-weight action game. The moderate use of stealth, the heavy use of gadgets and weapons, and the constant switch between the feline and the pig teams creates more varied gameplay.
What's frustrating about Blinx is that the premise is so good. Rewinding, slowing, pausing time -- you want it to work as well as it did when Prince of Persia bit these ideas last year, but so far the execution is 0 for 2 in the Blinx series. For every improvement it's made over its prequel, Blinx 2 introduces an element that seems designed to frustrate and impede your progress ... in a manner of speaking. Read More »
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Ah, Blinx. Remember him? He was that trash-vacuuming, platform-jumping kitty who could mess with time, pausing it, rewinding it, and performing other unspeakable acts upon the temporal fabric of the universe. Back in 2002, Microsoft hoped to turn Blinx into an Xbox mascot of sorts, but it was not to be. Artoon's Blinx: The Time Sweeper debuted to decidedly mixed reviews, owing to a screwy camera, annoying time limits, iffy control and half-baked gameplay systems. In the end, Blinx wasn't a Mario killer; it was a Blinx killer. We thought we'd seen the last of Microsoft's feline folly. Read More »
Also known as: Blinx II, Blinx 2: Battle of Time and Space
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