Happy Wheels Game - Evaluation

Call us sick, but somehow, dragging a legless workplace worker across a wild obstacle course from the back of a Segway in Happy Wheels is... well, a lot of fun. Much more fun than it most likely should be.

Happy Wheels is all about two issues: ridiculous obstacle courses and its constant damage method. The damage method is what truly sets it apart from similar games. The obstacle courses mix a little bit of conventional platform gaming with some puzzle and racer elements, but it's the injuries your racers can suffer that truly make the game addictive.

These injuries are rendered with just the right level of detail as just cartoony enough that you won't get too grossed out, but just realistic sufficient to retain a kind of dark humor. In any event, they're really what make the game. When you first bash your head on some thing, perhaps your helmet will split in half and fall off your head, but then you may stick a landing poorly rather of rolling with it and bust your ankle. Fall down a couple much more times and you may wind up with absolutely nothing below the knees, grabbing the handlebars of your ride for dear life as you whip up and down ramps, via vacuum tubes and across collapsing bridges. As you injure yourself much more, it becomes trickier and trickier to operate your character and finish the level.

The characters consist of a homeless guy in a wheelchair, the a fore talked about company guy on the Segway, the most irresponsible father ever on a bicycle with his kid in the seat behind him, and a morbidly obese fellow on a heavy duty scooter. The obstacle course level allows you to attempt these guys out and get a feel for the game's physics, while the other levels will usually assign you a character and a bit of context (the company guy, for instance, might require to get that report to his boss Correct AWAY). The courses are really imaginative at times. You'll drive complete speed into rickety towers to knock them more than and continue on your way and trigger explosions at just the right moment to get some obstacles out of your path.

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Control for happy wheels is easy: up is to move, down is to reverse, and you use the left and right arrows to stay balanced. Lean more than too far in 1 direction or an additional and you may wind up shattering your character to pieces in seconds flat. Occasionally, these small splatter shows can be the funnest component of the game.

Combined with the level editor, you could call this game: Mortal Kombat meets Linerider. The splattery action, the quick pace and the neat physics system make up an addictive, enjoyable action game with endless replayability.