Sneak King is creepy fun that should be played for what it is instead of what it's not. Great Game
This game uses a retro objective based style of game play that is upgraded somewhat to fit the design. You go through each level completing challenges to unlock un-lock achievements, more challenges, and the next level. There are a total of four levels with twenty challenges each. The challenges vary from delivering one burger to delivering five burgers to delivering three burgers within thirty seconds to delivering one burger within thirty seconds while doing it from a hiding place. It can feel slightly repetitive at times. I found that the main attraction to the game is that it plays on the human instinct to accomplish things and accomplish them with the best score or rank possible. Each challenge has some way of ranking how well you did with an ‘A’ rank being the best and a ‘C’ rank being the worst. Some challenges rank you based on how many points you accrued during it, while other challenges rank you based on how fast you completed it. Each challenge is numbered from one to twenty which gives you a feel of how difficult this challenge would be were you to attempt it. The challenges of each level are respectively harder than those of the previous of course. Some of the difficulty is placed on what you need for a specific rank, while other challenges up the difficulty through the challenge itself. The levels also affect how difficult some challenges are because less of the people you need to surprise pass by hiding spots for you to pop out of and surprise them with food of some sort.
The point system is simple in that you are showed exactly how the score for each surprise food delivery is determined. Five factors are used as multipliers for a base score that changes based on whether you were hiding or not. Obviously hiding gives you a higher score because it is more difficult to get to a hiding spot just as someone passes by it while they are hungry than it is to just sneak up to a hungry person and surprise them. There are somewhere around twenty people walking around or standing still per level that pass out if you don’t surprise them with food after a certain while, but don’t worry they get back up later to continue walking their set path. When you surprise someone you have the chance to perform something called a flourish. They resemble touch down dances somewhat and give you a multiplier to make your score higher based on how well you did the flourish. It's a simple golf-swing styled bar with notched to show you when you need to hit the button to get the flourish your looking for.
The graphics of this game aren’t the greatest but they get the job done nicely while making the game look good. What would you expect for the price these games come at? The style somewhat resembles the Sims games and compliments the games theme. The music and sound effects also fit the game perfectly. They wouldn’t really work for any other game I suppose, but I’m happy as long as they don’t make this game bad.
There really isn’t a story to Sneak King, but why would there be. The game runs well enough on it’s simple concept. You’re a giant food chain’s mascot and you sneak up on people to give them food in such a way that your creepiness makes it funny. The game does however provide little end of level story clips that describe the King’s antics in that level with some humorous news styled monologs. It’s all very tongue in cheek.
Overall I have to say I like the game because it does what it needs to do to makes the game’s concept work and it does it good. It’s a solid game and that’s all I was looking for when I bought it from Burger King. I laughed at the concept even as I was buying it and didn’t expect as much as it offered. So in the end I got more than my money’s worth and I would highly recommend Sneak King if you don’t mind a simple game every now and again and you don’t have sixty dollar gaming experience expectations.
In comparison to games that cost sixty dollars, which aren't always great themselves, I give this game a 3.5/5 on the Xplay scale. It's not for everyone but it is a worthy game to own if you enjoy it for what it is and not for what it's not.