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Feature Game For 2006-05-31
Diego Smart
http://www.gamegarage.co.uk/play/james-bunny/

Here's to digital cameras. Infinite numbers of blurry images recording your cat's sleep patterns without any development costs. And if your friends won't voluntarily embrace your artistic vision by coming round to see your pictures, they don't have to miss out. You can email them a hundred of your favorite shots with but a few mouse clicks.

In Diego Smart you play as a photographer who is coincidentally named Diego Smart. Your assignment is to take pictures of artifacts which nobody will believe actually exists until your photos prove that they, in fact, do exist. At the beginning of each level you will be shown an image of the relic you have to find and photograph. Then it's up to you to explore the ancient ruins to find your trophy. Along the way you'll find some paranormal guardians who don't take kindly to artifact photographing individuals. They'll cost you a life and thwart your mission if you come in contact with them. They absolutely hate it when artifact photographing individuals take pictures of them. For extra points you can photograph objects of archaeological interest that you come across. Just keep in mind that your camera has a limited amount of memory. Don't use it up before you find your objective.

Navigating past the many guardians while stopping to photograph artifacts makes for some challenging game-play. The arrow keys are used to control the character and it takes some practice to get used to the fact that the bouncy photographer doesn't move horizontal and vertical, but at an angle. The graphics were simple and likable. Although many of the elements would have benefitted from some more modeling to give them some depth.

We enjoy the nettled reaction of Diego when he ran into obstacles.

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