There's a sweet spot that propels your penguins through a speed ring, making the subsequent diving segment a lot more effective. It's not quite as simple as it sounds, though. To start with, your helmet-wearing penguins line up and take turns at the catapult, where pressing '5' fires them forwards. (Readers, don't write to tell us polar bears live in the North Pole and penguins in the South – tell publisher Digital Chocolate.)Įach of the levels in the main Campaign game are split into two sections: there's the catapulting part and the diving part. Not that they're having too much fun here – in a quest to rescue their kidnapped penguin pals from the (evil) polar bears, their only hope is to catapult themselves at the unsuspecting vicious mammals in order to knock them out. That's the bit everyone seems to ignore.Īnyway, Crazy Penguin Catapult is the latest game to choose the flightless birds as its fun-loving animal stars. But, hey, they're only doing it so they can munch the heads off fish. Presumably the penguins' playful reputation stems from their fondness for diving, as well as their frolics under water. Hence the latter's appearance in films (and games) like Happy Feet, where they dance, or Surf's Up, where they get around on surf boards. Dolphins are happy and mischievous, elephants are a bit clumsy but smart, and penguins like nothing more than to play all day. Dogs are friendly, but their close relations, wolves, are not. For instance, polar bears are always evil, and so are sea lions and sharks. It's a formula the previous Crazy Penguin Catapult stuck to just as rigidly, and though essentially all that's on offer here is a selection of new levels, there's little to grumble about when what's included - fresh or not - is just such damned good fun.It's funny how people ascribe different personalities to animals. The more polar bears you can take out with each penguin, the closer you are to clearing each stage and picking up the next upgrade. It makes using the upgrades on offer - upping the number of penguins at your disposal, adding bounces to their routine, gifting the ability to re-route them mid-flight - all the more important. ![]() That's because there's little guarantee that your well thought out plans will pay off, with the penguins bounding and bouncing any which way, sometimes working to your advantage, sometimes not. ![]() Crazy Penguin Catapult 2 is just as much a case of both precision and luck as its predecessor was. In both cases, the '5' key is your friend. Once the penguins are airbound, play moves onto the polar bears' abode, where your task is to direct the penguins down towards the bears one by one, each one bouncing on contact and taking out any others in the surrounding area (if you're lucky). First you have to pelt your penguins into the air using a variety of catapults, timing being the key as you aim to avoid splatting them into a wall, instead shooting them through a narrow canal into the sky. It's a set-up almost identical to the previous instalment with play following the same pattern, splitting each level into two set actions. ![]() In this game, my white fluffy friends are in fact white fluffy foes, the task being to take out as many of them from each stage as possible. A stuffed polar bear toy I had as a kid has left an indelible mark on my psyche - one that makes firing upon said bears with kamikaze penguins a rather difficult task to bear.Ĭrazy Penguin Catapult 2, however, requires me to brave such atrocities. The onset of global warming is eroding their habitat with gay abandon. If a wealth of scientists are to be believed, the very existence of polar bears is currently under threat.
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