Poor Clyde. All he wanted to do was to make an easy 20 bucks by volunteering
for an experiment at the local genetics lab. Unfortunately things go terribly
awry and rather than walking home with a twenty in his pocket, Clyde finds
himself trying to escape a lab gone haywire while also rescuing the innumerable
newly cloned versions of himself. Yes, Clyde must rescue Clyde, and Clyde, and
Clyde, and… you get the idea.
Cloning Clyde is a side-scrolling platform game in the classic mold. What
makes it stand apart from the seemingly millions of side-scrolling platform
game, er, clones out there is its sense of humor and unique gameplay elements.
First of all, you can take control of any of the Clyde clones on a level at any
time. This leads to a lot of puzzles where you truly are helped by helping
yourself as you can set clones on switches, scales, and various contraptions to
solve puzzles and open the way ahead for your other selves. You’ll also run
across some machines designed to combine the DNA of two creatures into one. By
making Clyde one of those two critters you can create a mutant Clyde who takes
on the characteristics of whatever you’ve placed on the other platform of the
machine. You can take Clyde and a frog and get a high-jumping Clyde or Clyde and
an exploding barrel and get, well you can probably guess that you get an
exploding Clyde.
The goal of each level is simple – destroy all of the security machines to
open up the exit and then get Clyde out of there. There are optional goals to
pursue as well if you want to collect all of your Xbox 360 Achievements for the
game or bump up your score on the leader boards. The first optional goal is to
rescue all of the Clyde clones on a level by getting them all to special air
vent exits scattered around the levels. The other optional goal is to find and
pick-up all of the Killer Ken action figures hidden in the level (it seems that
Clyde had one in his pocket during the experiment and it was cloned too). Each
level also has a par time which you can try to beat for extra points. These
things all give you a little incentive to replay the levels that you’ve already
completed, but once you solve a level you probably won’t be motivated to play it
over and over again. The game does give you 35 levels to play, so it will take a
little time to get to the point where you’ve seen it all – not bad for a game
that’s a $10 download.
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