A Monster Ate My Homework – Could it be the new Angry Birds?
by Paul Wilks
Jul 13, 2011 11:26 AM –
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A Monster Ate My Homework might well be the next Angry Birds. This beautiful, 3D, challenging, addictive and fun game has just the right components to immerse gamers into this new world of apples, balls, bombs, monsters and homework. Hugely compelling and brilliantly developed, this deserves your attention!
Price: Free
Tested on: HTC Desire HD
Content Rating: Everyone
Pros & Cons:
Pros
- Massively, massively addictive!
- Incredibly challenging!
- Lots of humor and fun!
- It’s free. There are far worse games that charge you in the Market!
- Lush 3D graphics with a 360 degree rotation!
- More levels than you can shake a stick at!
- Children and adults will love it!
- Accurate physics!
- Game can be played in both portrait and landscape mode.
Cons
- Very little, although some levels seem utterly impossible.
Features:
The premise is that these blocky monsters have stolen your homework which, despite it being the 21st century, you keep, not on a USB flash drive, but in carefully wrapped piles of books. The monsters have taken them to their nest, initially a large cardboard box surrounded by water, and are guarding them carefully. The only way you can rescue the homework is to knock the monsters into the water and leave the homework in the nest. OK, it sounds a little unfeasible but then pigs are neither known to steal eggs or be bright Kermit green. 
The way you must knock the monsters off is to throw small balls at them. Simply target the screen by tapping it and the ball is thrown. It feels very much at first like the old carnival game of knocking soda cans over to win a prize but as the game is in 3D, you can rotate the view to aim at the monsters from a variety of angles. Gameplay then is very simple and easy to understand, a further reason why this game is quickly immersive.
There lies a colossal challenge at the heart of A Monster Ate My Homework. The first few levels are quite easy and it’s no problem at all sending the monsters to their doom. However, the learning curve is insanely steep and some levels are incredibly difficult. There are some levels where I lost count of the number of attempts I made, and this was just on the first grade!
I’ll explain grades. Grades are a little like the different worlds on Angry Birds- there is about 20 level in each. Each grade presents a slightly new challenge (eg. grade 2 introduces bomb monsters and so on). There are 4 grades to unlock currently, and more to come. You cans skip levels if you need to via the use of monster tokens, which you only have a limited supply of. I only have two left and I’m treasuring them!
Sound is a huge feature of the game and when you hear the background music there is something definitely Harry Potter about it. You’ll see what I mean when I download it. There is clearly high production values in the implementation of high quality soundtrack and A Monster Ate My Homework does this in buckets. The music is brilliant and the sounds of monsters jeering you and grizzling is superb. It adds to that sensation that, straight away you are playing a high quality game.
I don’t think I’d compare it to Angry Birds lightly, but A Monster Ate My Homework has been huge on iPhone and deserves to be a huge success on Android too. Could it be that our feathered friends have met there match with the Monsters?
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A Monster Ate My Homework – In-game view.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – In-game view. 2
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Revolve 360 degrees.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – That’s another gone!
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Knock off Monsters, don’t knock off homework!
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Apples are important for your homework too!
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Apple is perilously close to rolling off.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – 4 grades currently, more to come
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Hit a bomb and it will blow up. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Onto grade 2 where there are bomb Monsters.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Complete level screen.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Failure. The homework fell in.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Select Grade
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Skip tough levels using Monster tokens.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – 20 levels per grade.
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Main menu
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A Monster Ate My Homework – Help.
Fun Factor:
Lots of fun and both children and adults can be consumed in the gameplay. Very easy to play yet very difficult to master, its a genuine gaming experience rather than a mere time killer. There are so many levels here could be be spending hours working your way through them.
Addictive:
Oh, where to start with this games’ addictiveness… it really draws you in an immerses you completely. You might literally lose hours to this game. Even once you complete you can try and beat your previous scores- throwing less balls- so it’s a game you’ll return to again and again.
Graphics:
Graphics are beautifully bright, 3D, sharply rendered and smooth. There are very few games which will genuinely blow this out of the water.
Accelerometer, Vibration & Sound:
Accelerometer and vibration are not used in the game but as I have discussed the sound is exquisite. Great music and superb sound effects add to this truly brilliant feature of the game.
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