Reviewing demos on this site has it’s advantages. Foremost is the fact that I get to play games that I otherwise probably wouldn’t spend my time on. Bone: The Great Cow Race is definitely one of those.
It is an adventure game, the second in a series of relatively short episode games. adventuregamers.com says the full game takes about 4-6 hours. As you can see from the screenshot below, the graphics are pretty unique, and you honestly feel like you’re part of a kids story. But it’s just too fun to care.
The writers seem to have a really great sense of humour, and I found myself really enjoying the time I spent on this demo. Compared to Desperados 2, there just couldn’t be more of a difference.
Take some of the conversation choices. Bone (the white thing/bone) had just been told he had a big nose. The one I have selected in the screenshot is: “And you have an ugly…hat!”
Maybe you had to be there.
Nevertheless, this game is great. At US$12.99 or NZ$19.72 it is extremely well priced. As far as I can tell, you don’t have to have anything shipped to you, you just activate the demo. If I had kids, I might pay that much to keep them busy for the evening. Alass, I have no kids, so I might not be able to justify buying this game. However I can give it an excellent and highly unexpected 9/10.
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peteandmegan.com » Sam & Max: Culture Shock: My Thoughts says:
November 13, 2006 at 11:14 am (UTC 13 )
[...] There’s been quite a bit of talk on the web about this series, because it’s very clearly episodic in nature, and is arguably one of the first to do truly episodic content. The game is from Telltale Games, the makers of Bone: The Great Cow Race, which I enjoyed, but not quite enough to buy it. [...]