Sam Leitch: "Maybe I am missing the point slightly, and this is purely edutainment for the little ones to expand their mind? Even then you would be better off with a DS and Brain Training. Honestly, I do like the game, and I will load it up from time to time for a quick laugh. But the crux of the matter is that this will soon sink off your dashboard's quick launch menu and remain forgotten on your hard drive until you need to free up space.
If you are looking for a game that the whole family can sit down and enjoy, there's certainly better on Xbox Live."
Brain training games are all the rage now- but what did PlayDevil think of the latest one to hit the XBLA?
Here is a snippet from the review:
"There are a few problems, however. AI performance is pretty random, and it and be pretty difficult to beat them, especially at higher difficulty levels- where performances are clearly inhuman at times. Having said that, the simple tests are probably the best part of the game- even if they are the least original bits.
16 different challenges are included, and with the difficulty settings, and random puzzles means that you'll probably never get the same combinations of questions twice."
Encleverment Experiment was surely not intended to reinvigorate the genre in any way, so why attempt to push it upon such a cynical crowd? There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the mechanics of this game, but all in all, it's just rather bland and uninviting. And frankly, the 800 Microsoft Points price tag is pretty absurd.
The Encleverment Experiment is an interesting and well-presented brain teasing game, but its limited scope for single player means it's not a long term endeavour. This coupled with the fact that multiplayer matches are all but non-existent make The Encleverment Experiment hard to recommend as a purchase.
