Eidos Plants Smart Bomb
First screens and details for new PSP puzzler.
When the North American PSP launch line-up was revealed earlier this month, there was a surprise on the list in the form of Smart Bomb, a wholly unknown game from UK-based publisher Eidos.
Clint Nembhard, producer of the game at developer Core Designs, describes the game as being "all about compelling, high-pressure gameplay. The player's PSP becomes a bomb with over a hundred bomb-deactivating puzzles to solve against the clock."
And while puzzle games are nothing new, especially on portable hardware, it's Smart Bomb's pervasive story that helps set it apart.
The setting for Smart Bomb is a conspiracy-infested present day where someone is planting intelligent networks of bombs around the globe. As part of the elite Bomb Disposal Unit and a veteran of a nearly identical crisis 10 years earlier, Michelle Grace is called in to defuse the situation while the truth behind the bombings is uncovered.
Gameplay involves deactivating bombs by solving intricate 3D puzzles. Smart Bomb will offer not only this story mode but also an arcade mode for those that just want to get to the meat right away. There will also be multiplayer modes where four players go at it, flaunting their defusing skills.
Smart Bomb will be released in Europe at the launch of the PSP, which should be some time this spring.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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