Space Station Silicon Valley

"Scruffy! No missiles in the house!"

This game defies the laws of nature! Dogs with wheels? Sheep with the strange and useful ability to float? Rats that poo explosives? Hyenas with motorbike? Who do DMA Design think they are? We do not really need to know because this game is too good to worry about tiny little issues like that. Space Station Silicon Valley is wildly wonderful, simply sensational, really remarkable and completely crazy!

STORY 10/10
Wow! What a funny storyline! It is about two superheroes who are flying to the almighty Space Station Silicon Valley to see what is going on but then they have an argument over which radio station to listen too! Because of this they crash into a meteor and then crash slap bang on to a robotic dog in Space Station Silicon Valley and kill it. While they were crashing one of the superheroes pressed eject and was ejected a little too late and since he was a robot he broke into four pieces which get scattered around the station. But his chip falls into the robotic dog, brings it back to life and so your adventure begins.

GRAPHICS 9/10
The graphics are funny and cartoon- like but these are the cons. The hippo looks like a colored diamond from far away and the hippo's eyes look like they are in mid-air. Apart from those setbacks the graphics are pretty good even with Nintendo's low polygon rate.

MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS 10/10
The music always fits in with the level! It is amazing! If you do not like the music then just blow up the speakers! In one level (Hot Cross Buns) you have to blow up the speakers! Although you can blow up the speakers I see no need to, the music is perfect! And with the sound effects they are so adorable! You will want to listen to them all day and every day! The reason why the music quality is such a large achievement for any video game producer is the fact that neither the Nintendo 64 nor the Space Station Silicon Valley game pack require a sound chip!

FUN LEVELS 10/10
This game is so fun! You could play for hours just repeating a single level! The thing that makes it so fun is that you can go into different animals and play around with them it is so fun!

LENGTH 10/10
This game has over forty levels does that sound long to you?

RE-PLAYABILITY 10/10
Just the same with every long game you kind of forget where everything is so when you play it again it seems all fresh and new.

DIFFICULTY 8/10
Some levels are like walk forward one step and you win but then in some levels it is insanely hard like Jungle Doldrums where you must cross an invisible path or fall into lava. And in Swamp Of Eternal Stench where you must get through a swamp of poo which will kill you quickly.

RENT OR BUY?
BUY! If you rent,prepare for a hefty late fee because you will get so addicted you will not bother to return it.

CONCLUSION
This game is fantastic and no gamer should be without this fantastic game from our pals at DMA Design.

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 10/04/04