One of the most popular and celebrated stations on cable television is Cartoon Network. This makes the characters of the long running station perfect for the creation of a computer game. “Cartoon Network All Stars” is four unique games in one awesome package! Even the most simple of games creates hours upon hours of fun as you and/or your child work to raise your score and move on to the next level.
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The first game is a mini-game. It features everyone’s favorite dirty, scamming trio, Ed, Edd, & Eddy. This game, known as to the Eds-treme was my favorite of the four. Of course, that being said I have one major pet peeve with this game. It is too short! Nevertheless, I have found that I constantly go back to play this game and try to improve my score in each level.
In To the Eds-treme, you play three short levels as Ed, Edd, and Eddy. In the first round, you play as Eddy. He is shorter than Double D and Ed so he goes faster and it is easier to get a large amount of points. You will race back and forth on a skateboard. You get points while doing tricks while air born. You can do single tricks and combination tricks for points.
Depending on each trick you do, you win a certain amount of points. However, cracks in the floor and both Edd and Ed appear randomly trying to trip up Eddy. If you trip, you lose the momentum you have been gaining from each successful trick run. Additionally, the more momentum you have, the more tricks you can do in one air born moment without tripping on the edge of the skate track.
The game continues this way through two more rounds, the second with a slightly slower, taller, and gawky, Edd (Double D), and the last round is the tall, sluggish Ed. Each level provides more cracks, blockers, and the need to win more points to advance. For the first round, you must clear 3,000 pts., round two is 4,000 pts, and round three is 5,000 pts. For each round, I was eventually able to earn over 8,000 points though the need to score higher and the addictive nature of this game keeps me coming back for more.
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The second game you can play in the “Cartoon Network All Stars” game pack is called Dropple. Dropple has four different levels with various methods of performing the same task. You have so many drops of a paint-like substance in your eyedropper. With each drop, a bubble pops and sends more drops flying in different directions.
The color of the drop determines how many drops splash and what direction they go in when the bubbles are popped. Most colors are the same throughout a level though you can get yellow bubbles, which splash in every direction including diagonal and white bubbles, which splash two drops in horizontal and vertical directions.
The four levels you can play include the World Tour (Features all your favorite Cartoon Network Characters as you travel around levels. If you lose a round you do not have to start completely over), puzzle mode (You are given a limited amount of drops and bubbles placed in puzzle formations. If you lose, you can replay the level and continue onward.), Arcade Mode (You are given bubbles and half-formed bubbles in each round with a fair amount of drops to start. How many drops you keep depends on what you have left in the previous round. If you lose, you have to start the entire game over. This game has endless levels, new puzzles, obstacles, and changes every game you play.), and Classic mode (Similar to the Arcade Mode, as you try the same set boards repeatedly. Your game ends if you lose and you only get as many drops as you had the round before.).
Dropple features unlimited rounds, plenty of play, challenging boards, and obstacles such as boulders/blocks that can help or hinder you. This game is fun for the whole family. Even smaller children can get the hang of this game with little difficulty. This is one of the most addicting games “Cartoon Network All Stars” offers. With so many levels, some that change with every round you play, this game is paid for many times over in the time you will spend playing Dropple.
The third “Cartoon Network All Stars” game is Cartoon Cove Mini Golf. This is golf with a cartoon network twist to it. Each level is designed after a Cartoon Network show. Dexter has his own level, as does Ed, Edd, and Eddy (you will get to check out plank in all his glory). As you travel around laser beams, morph from different levels of a course hole, and navigate around obstacles that stand in your way, you will travel through nine exciting holes.
Cartoon Cove lets you chose your own ball color so you can choose a different ball each time. You also have some difficult challenges to try to get around including a suction tube, which puts your ball back at the starting point after it sucks it up, and a laser beam surrounded hole, which may block your balls entrance to score.
This was not the best game on “Cartoon Network All Stars”. I recommend only playing two or three games unless you really like miniature golf. If you do, you will love Cartoon Cove. Otherwise, the other games will definitely make up for the lack of interest you will have with Cartoon Cove Mini Golf.
The final game, Fast and Flurrious, is not only exciting it is so much fun to play. Join Mojo and the Power Puff Girls on the ultimate downhill skiing adventure. Getting the hang of skiing is a little difficult at first, but once you figure it out, you will be doing tricks and moving on to new levels in no time. Of course, once you master the slopes with the beginning level Power Puff Girl you have to move on to intermediate, advanced, and Mojo (we will just call it crazy) play.
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The three Powerpuff Girls, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup each have their own difficulty level. You can also choose from different boards and unlock new ones with new levels. Mojo is on a level all his own. As you ski down various slopes, (you can choose from bunny slopes to ones with dangerous curves) you navigate over snow piles and avoid trees. The goal is to get so many points to advance and unlock new boards and levels.
The Fast and the Flurrious was my second favorite game. Of all the games, my son, who is 12, enjoyed this one the most. You have the opportunity to pick up bonuses and perform tricks for points. If you do not make enough points, you can try the round again. Since this game has so many difficulty levels with different boards and skiing slopes there is an unlimited amount of time you can spend playing this game.
Overall “Cartoon Network All Stars” offers three highly addictive family-friendly games in one great package. With all of this fun you could be having, why wait to purchase this game, which was developed in part by Brighter Minds Media? Even the fourth game is fun to play at least a few times every few months, after you have beaten different rounds in the other three games.
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As a family, we rate this game a 4.5 out of 5 with minimum negatives including too short a game for To the Eds-treme and a lack of enjoyable playing time (once you play the first time) for Cartoon Cove Mini Golf. Otherwise, “Cartoon Network All Stars” is the perfect family game you can enjoy together or on your own.
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