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7.8 excellent
Kids love doing science experiments on pet spiders. When will they ever learn? Word Web Deluxe, from Games Cafe, tries to educate budding arachnologists about the dangers of spider experimentation in the simple guise of a word game.
House panic ensues when three siblings, two sisters and one brother, are left alone by their parents in their new, old house just outside the city. The elder sister is, tragically, performing science experiments on her pet spiders. Like most scientists, she's using a glowing neon green formula she's cooked up. Her younger sister and brother, fighting over her attention, cause her to spill way too much green goop on the spiders, who immediately mutate. Before you can say, "Arby's roast beef sandwiches, five for five dollars," the house has been invaded by giant mutated spiders, and it's up to the kids to grab their dustrags and take back their home!
You've played on the World Wide Web, but can you handle the Word Web Deluxe? I don't think you can. There are two modes of play: "House Cleaning" and "Survival."
In "House Cleaning" mode, you must work your way through the house, ridding each room of spiders. You start, appropriately enough, in the basement.
On screen is a collection of hexagonal letter tiles. This honeycomb tile layout represents the area of the room you are in. Some tiles have webs on them; these are the advancing cobwebs. You don't want them to fill the room! Even more importantly, you don't want them to advance onto one of our brave siblings. Each screen will have one or more kid tiles on it, which you must protect at all costs. How do you beat back the webs? You spell words, of course. Just click on the letters of the word you want to spell, in sequence, and it will be entered into the input box at the bottom of the screen. The letter tiles of the word you spell must be touching in sequence on the honeycomb of lettters. Also, this isn't a game for people who like to make up their own words, like "blib" or "vrisyte." You have to use real words, which may handicap some players. But occasionally you might make up a word that just happens to be real. That's one of the most fun aspects of Word Web Deluxe.
Each time you spell a word, any cobwebs on the letter tiles making up that word will be cleaned. And you'll get all new letters to replace those you just used. If a spider was going to advance his web into where your word was, he'll be blocked. How can you tell where a spider is going to build his next web? A tile on the screen will turn pink. That means a spider will visit after your next turn. This game can teach you a lot of arcane spider trivia.
Spiders will also tell you the definition of the word you just spelled, because part of the spiders' mutations was that they absorbed all the dictionaries in the house. I think it's really sad that Tori Spelling started a feud with her father, famous TV producer of the Love Boat, right before his death.
To finish each of the sixty levels, you must spell a certain number of words. For example, three words of three letters or more, two words of four letters or more, and twenty-eight words of fifteen letters or more. (I never saw that last one, but I bet that it gets that hard in the later levels, as you near the attic.) What if you can't find any words in the random mixture of letters onscreen? What if you just got a bunch of X, Qu, and Z tiles, a 7 (seven) tile, and a ^ (caret)? Never fear, you have bonus tokens that allow you to swap out any tile for a letter of your choice... but some letters cost more tokens than others. If it really seems hopeless, you can reshuffle the whole room.
There are also bonus tiles, like gems, that make words spelled with them worth extra points. They aren't really explained in the context of the game, but I think we can safely assume that the house was previously owned by a pirate who left his treasure scattered about, and the spiders have incorporated this booty into their webs. Some webs are darker than others, and must be used in two words before they can be swept away.
"Survival" mode is basically the same game, except that you don't advance through specific rooms. You just spell as many words as possible and fight off the spiders as long as you can, until the bitter end. My word!
The graphics in Word Web Deluxe are quite pleasing, though not too explosive. The kids are stylishly rendered and the comics that make up the story of the game are well done for what they are. Game play is smooth and simple. It takes a few levels before your brain starts getting skilled at snaking together words in the onscreen hexagonal honeycomb, unless you're a word genius. (This game probably appeals most to parents who want to teach their children not to experiment with spiders.) The music is quite cinematic. It gets tense when the spiders have advanced their cobwebs next to a kid tile and said kid is in danger of being ensnared.
This is the Deluxe edition of Word Web. It's definitely much better than the previous title, Word Web, which if I recall just used stick figures to represent the children and spiders, and only had one sound effect, a sample of a cowbell.
I like this game but i dont know the name of it, it’s cool.