You use the keyboard for everything else, such as kicking or launching a Buddy Bug. Movement is easily controlled via the mouse, and it feels very natural. Users control Rollie using a combination of the mouse and keyboard. Inside each walnut you will find different things such as health power-ups and Buddy Bugs (little bug friends which you can use to blast the bad guys). Thank goodness for power-ups to renew your rolling power! Power-ups come in the form of walnuts, which you must kick to open. As with any good offensive weapon in a video game, though, you can only roll up and knock the bad guys on their butts so many times. Kicking the bad guys is your first line of defense, but your best weapon is to roll up in a ball and blast the bad guys. Like any hero (bug or human) you do have some skills which will aid you in your quest. Using a behind the action, third-party view of the game (which you can zoom in and out) you control Rollie past mazes of tall grass, over puddles of water (which look like lakes to bugs) up steep embankments, and over flat ground to rescue the ladybugs and do battle with the ants and other meanies. Fortunately, Bugdom has more going for it than pretty scenery. But like special effects in a movie, great graphics do not a great game make. Relying heavily on QuickDraw 3D, the visual effects from the tree-sized blades of grass to the white puffy clouds in the sky make Bugdom a visual masterpiece. The screen shots here will only give you a small clue as to how good it actually looks on your own screen. From swimming through water, battling other bugs, and finding keys to unlock parts of the map, Bugdom offers just enough unique and fun action to keep the game fresh.īugdom offers some of the most stunningly beautiful graphics I have seen in a long time. Bugdom offers players some very challenging challenges to solve in your quest. As Rollie, your job is to save the ladybugs, and so become the new ruler of Bugdom!
It seems all of Bugdom is in trouble, as the head ant, King Thorax, has kidnapped the rightful rulers, the Ladybugs. In Bugdom, you are Rollie McFly, a Rollie Pollie bug. This is a great game! Which really should come as no surprise as Brian Greenstone at Pangea is one of the people who helped create QuickDraw 3D for Apple Computer Inc. I was right, but simply saying this is a fun game will not do it justice. I had seen the preview screen shots of Bugdom for weeks before I actually played the game, so I had some clue that this would be a unique and fun game.