Disney Guilty Party. Disney Guilty Party is a fun and hilarious mystery party game, exclusively for Wii system. Friends and family play as the savvy sleuths of the world-famous Dickens Detective Agency to investigate a series of crimes and identify the guilty party.
SAN FRANCISCO – High-quality Wii games from third parties may be few and far between, but Guilty Party could buck that trend.
Guilty Party, unveiled Wednesday at a Nintendo media briefing, is best thought of as a more complex version of the murder-mystery board game Clue. It's the first collaboration between Stubbs the Zombie creator Wideload Games and its new corporate overlords at Disney. From all appearances, it's a match made in heaven: Wideload's penchant for comedy and family-friendly party games blends well with Disney's aesthetic and target market.
I laughed out loud quite a bit while taking Guilty Party for a spin. The cast of detective characters shows up at the beginning and end of each mystery in the story mode, in story sequences that are genuinely funny, with great dialogue and comedy timing. While the game can create an unlimited amount of random cases for you to solve, in much the same manner as Clue's card-shuffling, it seems as if you'll want to play the story mode first for all the well-paced humor and the plot that runs through all the cases.
The story mode features drop-in, drop-out cooperative gameplay, so parents can pick up a controller and help kids with the cases if they're struggling, for example. Players take turns moving about the different locations (a mansion and a cruise ship, just to name two) and investigating question mark icons – these might indicate a person to interrogate or a clue that's been left on the ground.
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Every such investigation brings up a Mario Party-style minigame – you might need to bribe a witness by placing money into their hands, or stare them in the eyes by moving the pointer around.
Occasionally, you'll have to play cooperative mini-games – in the one we tried, I had to pick up boards and hold them against a hole in a wall while the other player nailed them in. It all seems like pretty solid stuff.
Every time you successfully complete a challenge, you'll get another clue. In your notebook, you can build a profile of the suspect, as shown above, based on the clues you've collected. In the early stages, the clues will be pretty direct – a witness might just say flat-out that the culprit was tall, for example. But later in the game, they'll get a bit more convoluted: You might have to infer that a suspect was tall based on him bumping his head on the ceiling in another room, for example.
Once you've got everything in place, you can accuse a suspect, but you'll have to illustrate that you had all of the clues necessary and didn't just guess.
Guilty Party will be available in the second half of 2010.
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publisher : Disney Interactive Studios
Multiplayer mode: common screen, players: 1-4
Guilty Party tells the thrilling tale of the Dickens Detective Agency as they solve crimes set in motion by the master criminal known as Mr. Valentine. Up to four players can solve crimes in a variety of locations all over the world to unlock the secrets of Mr. Valentine's grand scheme.
Guilty Party offers both cooperative and competitive gameplay for all ages. Players choose a detective and take turns exploring the environment to uncover clues to discover the culprit's identity. Each new clue is acquired by playing a unique mini-game based on detective tasks. When players have enough evidence, they can accuse their prime suspect and try to solve the case.
Players step into the shoes of the Dickens family and work together to explore crime scenes and play mini-games to collect clues and interrogate suspects. Guilty Party transforms the Wii Remote into classic detective tools: a magnifying glass, a flashlight, a lock-pick, a fingerprint kit, and more. Players then discuss and piece together the clues in their detective notebooks to deduce the identity of the culprit. It takes more than quick reflexes to win, it also takes quick wits.
The Dickens family tracks Mr. Valentine across the globe, from a high-speed train to a leaky aquarium to many other locations to solve new mysteries. Once the mysteries are solved, players can play again with a new set of clues, suspects and mini-games -- and a different culprit every time. Players can even split into teams and compete to see who can solve a mystery first.
Guilty Party is the first new franchise developed by Wideload Games for Disney Interactive Studios. The game's characters and locations are inspired by classic detective lore, with the storytelling, unique humor and art style that have distinguished Wideload Games. Guilty Party will have players applying logic to solve the mysteries while laughing at the wacky cast of characters, situations and animated scenes.
Expectations: 8.0 / 10 calculated out of 2 players' votes.
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age requirements: 12+