Amazon.com Review
Create a monster out of bits and body parts--and then take it on a tour of a creepy castle.
Awesome Animated Monster Maker Ultra lets you choose between various types of torsos, toes, teeth, tails, and eyeballs in a computer-generated Frankenstein's lab. All of these pieces can be combined in any fashion you like--the only limit is your imagination.
Aimed at children in the 4- to 7-year-old age range, this program features wacky animations that encourage players to delight in the bizarre. Users can make fluffy, pop-eyed friends or gory, bat-winged nightmares, coloring each limb and hairy toe so that it harmonizes tastefully with the rest--or clashes as badly as possible. Once the monster is completed and has been assigned a brain, players can take their creation through various activities and games--a photo shoot, a judo match, and a dozen more.
Awesome Animated Monster Maker Ultra is tremendously fun, but it is an older game, and it shows. It refuses to run on anything but a 256-color video setting, so users with newer computers will have to reset their PC every time the program is played. Each of the monster body parts is fixed in one position, lacking the capacity to be flipped or reversed before attachment to a monster. Finally, the activities--while indisputably entertaining--may fail to engage children who have been exposed to more sophisticated games.
For users with older computers, though, and children who are new to computer gameplay, Awesome Animated Monster Maker Ultra offers laugh-out-loud fun, a magnificent creative outlet, and a delightfully irreverent way of bringing bedtime's scary monsters into the light of the waking world. (Ages 4 to 7) --Alyx Dellamonica
Amazon.com Product Description
The adventures begin in Dr. Lizardlips's lab: create your very own monster from hundreds of wacky, squirming parts, and choose your monster's personality. Then it's time to explore! Roam through 14 rooms of Creepy Castle with four games that challenge your creativity. Your monster talks, laughs, and does tricks. Cook up a storm with Spaghetti and Meatball or dance the night away with Slippo and Mergatroid, take on Diaper Dan in a judo match, or Jet Ski with Kelpy. Take your monster's picture, print it out, or save it for further adventurers. An easy-to-read children's manual is included.
