The Maw
A great looking game that came out of nowhere with its dazzling graphics and fluent animations. The game revolves around a blue alien by the name of Frank, and a purple blob named Maw, that he leads around the game world, feeding and evolving. The Maw won the 2008 Audience Choice award at PAX10, and is currently a finalist at the Independent Games Festival 2009.
The Maw, a cute little blob with an insatiable hunger that makes him the most dangerous creature in the galaxy. He not only gets the powers of the aliens he eats, but he also gets bigger as he eats more aliens.
Returning from a routine mission, a Galactic Bounty Hunter ship crash lands on a strange planet, leaving the captured Frank (our hero) and a tiny glowing blob in a cage labeled “THE DEADLIEST ORGANISM IN THE UNIVERSE” (known as Maw) as the only survivors. Aware of the risks, but concerned about traveling around alone, Frank hooks the strange blob to a plasma leash from the wreckage. Making their way towards the communication tower in the distance, they must escape from the bounty hunters out to cage them, as well as the unknown dangers of the new planet they are on.
A 2 hour game at best and with no extra features or bonus content aside from the achievements which you can easily aquire if you just take some extra time to burn or break things to get that extra gamer score boost. You are pretty much looking at a one time play through type of game. It is clear that the game was built for kids, aside from its visual style there also seems to be no way to die.
The Maw features a lengthy, full scope, single-player experience filled with hundreds of 3D character animations, intense cinemas and cutting edge graphics technology.Animations are as fluent and expressive as they come. Environments are often entertaining and the sound is As friendly and goofy as the game looks.
Twisted Pixel released three new levels for the game as downloadable content. Once downloaded, the new levels will be selectable from the in-game menu as “deleted scenes”, taking place at various points between original levels in the storyline.
New levels include:
Brute Force, River Redirect and The Speeder Lane.
Brute Force and River Redirect were released for Xbox 360 on February 18, 2009 and March 11, 2009 respectively. Both were released together for the Steam version of the game on March 16, 2009.
