Tuttles Mapcap Misadventures
- Kids Game of the Year – 2007 GameTunnel.com and Parent’s Choice Silver Award Winner
- Forty levels of side-scrolling action gameplay with animated cut scenes voiced by notables such as Bob Saget, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ashley Tisdale, Dominic Scott Kay, and William Shatner.
- Play as each family member as you travel across six lushley rendered settings: desert, ocean, jungle, tropical island, mountain and sky
- Includes animated comic-book stylishness scenes between each game level that tell the hilarious tale of the Tuttle Family
- Proceeds from this game will benefit the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation www.starlight.org
Product Description
The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures is a hilarious arcade adventure game about a thoroughly modern family trying to bond on a road trip to the Alamo. Perfectly detailed art and wonderfully asinine situations bring this familiar tale in the Interactive age. In addition to 40 engaging levels of side-scrolling action, players are treated to animated, comic-book stylishness cut scenes brought to life by the fantastic voice-over talents of some of Hollywood’s largest names.
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Game Play: This game plays very smoothly, there is enough action and humor to peak anyones’ interest. You can choose to play as any of the 4 characters in the Tuttle family. They all have their own unique game scenarios and experience. There are 40 levels that you must over come and these levels are divided between 6 main themes – Island, desert, mountain, Under Sea, tropical jungle, and sky.
Game Interface: The Download of The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures was seamless. It installed well on my pc. My operating system is Windows XP, with Service Pack 3.
The desktop icon is pleasant and easily seen. When clicked, you are taken immediately to a
full screen, where you can watch the tale of The Tuttles family unfold.
There is both keyboard or mouse support. I chose to use my mouse, it was more comfortable. The characters are controlled by pointing the mouse cursor in the management you want your character to go. If you want the character to bow down, you go the mouse toward the bottom of the screen. If you want your character to jump you go the mouse upward. And so on. The artificial intelligence communicated well with my mouse cursor. There was a learning curve but, to familiarize myself with exact positioning of my character. When I chose to be the mother character, I especially liked being able to wallop anything that was in my path with my purse – it packed a powerful punch!
Everything is very visible – the option icons, help points and save points, required objects and objects that rack up points – all are very visibly defined, and nearly larger than life.
Artificial Intelligence & Enemy Specs: The artificial intelligence of this game is pretty relentless, I could liken the enemy element to many well loved platforms of arcade stylishness sports meeting, more particularly Nintendo’s Super Mario Brother’s. Each Level has it’s own that are suitable to the environment – for example the desert is littered with swooping bald eagles, stinging scorpions and poison cactus. There is something always raining in from the sky, crawling up from the ground or rolling in to your character, so you need to be on your toes constantly.
Most levels have a predetermined amount of special items you must find, before you can pass the level. There is also an abundance of points that are chose by the environment of the level you are in, such as a first aid kit for extra life , you find in the desert.
You get 3 lives for each level. Each enemy or hazard removes points from your life. There are special items you can pick up that will boost your life – they aren’t always obvious – so look hard. Each level has special save points, resembling a book, which allow you to pick up where you left off when you restart the game.
Game Plot: The main plot of the game is The Tuttles family trying to make it to their vacation via road trip to The Alamo (not limited to travel on the road, but also owing to their specialized van equipped with jet propulsion and wings for flight, and a submergeable body for deep underwater adventures) . By the side of the way they encounter many hazards, such as their beloved van crashing, deep jungle skirmishes and under sea foibles – all the while sticking it out like a loving family would. The mantra for the game is “getting things done, by doing excellent”.
Each family member is a hero, in their own right : the goofy member of the clergy Barry, the spunky mother Barbara, the typical teen age, social obsessed daughter Jess and young Zach, who can’t wait to be grown up. With each character choice you gain a unique perspective into the dynamics of the game. The Tuttles Madcap Misadventure is a linear game – meaning 3 terrible mistakes and your game level is over. Each character must use their wits to defeat enemies and hazards both environmental , physical or animal related. As the game progresses – the difficulty and level of hazards increases.
Game Graphics: The graphics are flash based, and comic book like. They are designed with a kids perspective in mind. I found the affect scheme to be very likable and there were no overwhelmingly garish colors, the designers stuck to dirty,warm natural tones. They looked lively on my 17 inch 1280 x 1024px resolution, 32 bit CRT monitor. I have a VIA/SG3 UniChrome IGP.
Visually the level scenes have allot going for them. There are plenty of details in the foreground, which sucks you into the game, making the setting believable. The terrain is textured and they hazards are very detailed. When a player’s character encounters an hazard – the character wavers from opaque to semitransparent, alerting you to the fact that friend with the hazard has been made.
You have 6 nicely rendered settings: desert, ocean , jungle, island , sky and mountains.
Animation: The character animation is not quite right to life. The characters are whimsical and a small goofy. Their actions and interactions are pretty lifelike though. You can see a character gripping for a ladder, or jumping to reach a save point etc. Scorpions go like in real life, eagles glide.
Some more whimsical features of the game include Special objects that levitate in mid air. Spiderwebs become bounce able trampolines that allow you to jump out of spear lined pits; Once enemies have been defeated (by being stomped or walloped) – they split up into not anything and become bundles of cash / gold or a character specific reward (i.e a “worlds greatest dad” trophy for Barry).
Come to reflect of it I thought that Barry (the dad) looks very much like Max Weinberg, the drummer from Late Night with Connan Obrien.
Theme Music: The theme music is pleasant. Each character has their own specially catered theme. Each level has a specific theme based on the environment the level takes place in.
Character Voices: The incredible cast of characters can be heard sharing witty one liners and carrying out the crazy adventures of The Tuttle family : Bob Saget voices member of the clergy Barry, Jamie Lee Curtis is mother Barbara, Ashley Tisdale plays teen daughter Jess, and Dominic Scott Kay voices young son Zach. Other characters include Dave Thomas as The Australian, Dave Coulier as The Islander and William Shatner as the voice of the souped-up mini van that transports the family. The voices are very well suited for each specific character. They make the game a very fun experience.
This game is full of witty banter and parent vs. outcome humor. This game never wanes with a comedic script written with 300 shape, from the creative genius of Dave Thomas.
There are mini shorts throughout the game featuring humorous interaction between the Tuttle family.
Sound effects are right to life. The rumbling of the van’s engine, the hissing of a snake, the thundering echo of a rolling boulder, these are all concrete examples. Each level has it’s own charm. And the characters each have their specific sounds, if running you hear gasping, or if hurt you hear wincing pain – all in keeping with the sports meeting momentum. I found the mother’s exclamation of “Oh we NEED that” or “scratch that off the list”, while in the mall were very amusing and nearly too realistic.
Game Utilities: All sports meeting are managed by player name – you are questioned to penetrate your name when you start a new profile, and your top score is saved. When the game is loaded you choose your specific player profile. The game memory is only limited by your amount of hard disk space.
There are no options for difficulty. The game merely increases difficulty as the game progresses. This is a one player game.
Game Rating:
E for everyone. Has mild cartoon violence.
Over all this has been a real fun gaming experience. I let my 5 yr ancient watch me play, and I felt the violence was mild in comparison to many other well loved kids geared sports meeting. I look forward to much more game play with The Tuttles in the future. If you are looking for an engaging game for your children, that isn’t too violent and that promotes family – this is a splendid choice.
Rating: 4 / 5
Bought this for my 11 year ancient daughter and not only does she delight in it…so do I. It is surprisingly excellent! Splendid control with the mouse (which is rare) Splendid tale, real talented voices and really excellent ancient school run and jump fun. The controls are very tight, so I was never frustrated. This is a must buy if you have kids. It’s nice to see a family game where the goal isn’t to bludgeon someone with a baseball bat. Parents should be buying sports meeting like this so more developers will make them.
Rating: 5 / 5