Those of us who aren't JC got our first extended look at Backbone Entertainment's Monster Lab earlier today, including a combat sequence and a couple of minigames from the title. To this blogger, the minigames looked a touch simplistic (more of which in a moment), but the combat, as seen in the video above, is slightly more interesting. Producer Kelly Teinton demonstrates how we'll be able to target individual parts (head, left arm, right arm, legs) of enemy monsters, and how knocking certain appendages from monsters will affect the outcome of battles.
We're less enamored by the minigames. The example above sees players having to smash open crates with swings of the nunchuk, while another (viewable past the break, along with a brief interview) is based on a basic shape-matching exercise. Neither look particularly taxing or engaging, and would pose little challenge to even the youngest of gamers.
Gallery: Monster Lab
Our fantasies of one day becoming mad scientists never left us, our memories of afternoons spent cooking grotesque creatures and malformed bugs in our Creepy Crawlers oven still fresh in our minds. With our bedroom lights turned off and a Halloween-themed cassette tape playing in the background, we'd pull our aberrant creations out of the Mattel kiln, warbling ghoulishly, "Creeeeeeeepy Crawlers," just like in the commercials.
