Chalk this one up to functional German engineering. Our wunderbar friends can now look forward to Clever DS, an upcoming puzzle game featuring a bunch of wacky science experiments. Apparently based on the popular German television show Clever (featuring Dr. Boning and magical helicopters), the overall gameplay involves using various items in the correct methods (even combining stuff MacGyver-style) to solve puzzles.
Items featured include lasers, hot air balloons, mirrors, see-saws, boxes, balls and magnets. You can arrange these elements together to form chain reactions, not unlike those awesome Rube Goldberg machines. We'll let you know if this crazy DS contraption will be available anywhere outside Germany, because frankly it sounds rather intriguing. Even if the boxart is incredibly creepy.
Germans are clever, almost like scientists even
Posted Jun 4th 2008 5:00PM by Phil Larsen
Filed under: News
Tags: clever, clever-ds, german, germany, puzzle, rube-goldberg, science-experiment, sevenone-intermedia
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6-04-2008 @ 6:45PM
Parker said...
Sounds like The Incredible Machine, which was awesome. I'd love to see something like that come to the DS! Let's keep our eyes on this one, if it's anything like TIM, an English port would be amazing.
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6-05-2008 @ 12:44AM
Frastoglegnia said...
If this were Engadget or Gizmodo, there would be fifty posts ignoring the game and ogling the blonde woman on the cover. Scanning those threads, you can feel Voltaire giving up on humanity all over again.
If the game were really cheap, I might buy and play it for the absurdity -- especially if I found a German copy.
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6-05-2008 @ 7:34AM
pas said...
I swear this was out a long time ago since I saw it in a Warehouse...
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