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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Shop-n-Spree
Shop-n-$pree is a hidden object game. While the company bills it as a time management game, the time management is similar to most hidden object games, where one must find all the objects within a certain amount of time.The backstory: Your long-time family department store has seen better days. A shopping super-center comes into town and tries to buy up your lot for additional parking, you enter with your buisness degree to the ailing family business.
Game play: You find the objects that the customers order. You will have a maximum of 3 customers at a time. Some of them will have text (red pillow, blue slippers), some will show you a picture of what they want, some will have a a request and timer (i.e. Give me all the globes you have, and the timer starts running - you have until the timer runs out before the customer gets angry and leaves); some have a "riddle" (My nephew wants 3 green stuffed animals).
What they did well: As the different levels load (bathroom, sporting goods, boy toys, etc), there is a box that lists a bunch of items with their prices and pictures. The items don't vary from this list, so if you don't know what something is (for example, you've never done rock climbing and don't know what a carabiner looks like), this could help out.
What could have been better: Sometimes the photographer customers had a picture of what they wanted that was not the same as the actual item! There was no reward for finishing a level early. Upgrades are not choices, but given after a certain number of levels. The upgrades don't affect gameplay. It gets tiresome to listen to the customers says "Okay" and "Thanks" over and over.
Overall: This was not a game that I found very compelling, but think it's best targeted to younger players.
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