Ty the Tasmanian Tiger: Night of the Quinkan Preview
We catch up with Ty and his pals for some new adventures in Night of the Quinkan.
For a supposedly extinct marsupial, Tasmanian tigers certainly do keep their paws busy trouncing evildoers of all shapes and sizes. Actually, that's probably just Ty, but the gung ho hero throws himself into his work with gusto, and that's still the case with his most recent adventure in Night of the Quinkan. We got to spend some quality time with the boomerang-bearing beast and his best buddies on the PlayStation 2, and this accessible action game seems to be coming along quite nicely.
The game's opening sequence sets the stage for the dangers to come and accustoms you to Ty's controls both inside and outside of special vehicles. Ty and one of his friends, the winsome dingo Shazza, gets pulled to Dreamtime realm by the Bunyip Elder to assist with his people with their quinkan relocation program. Quinkan are beings made of darkness that like to ruin everyone else's good time, so Ty is only too willing to ply his twin boomerangs in an effort to send them all packing. He neutralizes the threat through a mixture of combat prowess and classic Aussie catchphrases, slinging his dual weapons with the square button. He can shoot off both 'rangs, and they'll home in on any targets from a distance. But if his enemy is up close, the weapons make good bludgeoning devices. The X button makes Ty jump or glide a short distance, and the circle button lets him chomp someone nearby--to take a bite out of crime. That's not all his teeth are good for, though, as he can traverse areas by latching on to floating objects with his mouth, munching his way to new heights. The controls are simple to learn and are extremely responsive, with only some slight pauses for camera maneuvering that get in the way.
Ty's vehicle, the shadow bunyip, is similarly easy to control. It's a mech suit for Ty that he can use to either punch enemies or fire at them with a gun attachment. You can pick additional attack upgrades for the shadow bunyip and then use the triangle button to switch midbattle. One such attachment is the powerful shadow beam, which we used to blast open some doors and destroy some artifacts that were generating power for the quinkan's transportation device. Once we destroyed the device, Ty and Shazza ended up in a portal so they could head back home...but a few quinkan got caught up in the mix. When Ty finally arrives back home in Burramudgee, he discovers that not only was he apparently gone for a long six months, but also while he was away the quinkan have been setting up shop on his turf. His friends in the Bush Rescue team are scattered to the four winds, so his next job is to reform the band.
Finding your way to new missions and objectives to forward the story is simple: Just pull up your area map, and any available missions will have their locations marked--and you'll notice flashing circles around missions you'll need to target to advance. The earliest missions have you collecting your friends once more, then progressing to the more serious business of stomping quinkan. When you have to travel the dangerous roads in the Southern Rivers area, you'll do so via the crabmersible, a many-legged machine with sharp pincers for up-close battle and missiles to take out remote targets. The roads are littered with mines, mysterious slime, zombie lizards (no, really), strange and violent plants, as well as quinkan. As a result, the crabmersible's abilities definitely come in handy. Plus, there's something inherently amusing about skittering around in a giant robot crab.
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