{"id":25483,"date":"2025-03-19T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25483"},"modified":"2025-03-11T02:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T02:23:39","slug":"powerwash-simulator-wallace-and-gromit-special-pack-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/19\/powerwash-simulator-wallace-and-gromit-special-pack-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerWash Simulator: Wallace and Gromit Special Pack (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A couple of years ago I reviewed a game called PowerWash Simulator<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a game where you use a power washer to hose down all sorts of things.\u00a0 Yeah they\u2019ll make a game out of anything nowadays, won\u2019t they?\u00a0 But since it is a video game, they got pretty imaginative with it, and you could download all sorts of DLC to power wash things like Final Fantasy 7 vehicles, Lara Croft\u2019s mansion from Tomb Raider, Back to the Future vehicles, SpongeBob\u2019s neighborhood, and Shrek\u2019s swamp.\u00a0 All of those are cool and all, but it wasn\u2019t enough to make me want to get them and play the game again.\u00a0 That is, until recently when they added a Wallace and Gromit pack.\u00a0 So I caved in and had to review it.\u00a0 Wallace\u2019s inventions have made a mess of his house and machines, so he invents the WashLad to clean things up!\u00a0 The DLC and the game are available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Gameplay is pretty much like the main thing.\u00a0 Use the buttons on the control to spray water and clean up everything.\u00a0 You can switch nozzles, crouch and jump, pick up ladders and stools, switch to aim mode, and more!\u00a0 My only problem is that since you use every button on the controller, sometimes I would forget what which button does.\u00a0 But that just may be me.\u00a0 To finish one job and move onto the other, you must clean everything 100 percent in that stage.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit frustrating because they\u2019re so nitpicky, but you can push a button to highlight the dirt, and view a menu where you can see what needs to be cleaned.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s go over what you can clean. I have to say that the makers of this game must be real fans of the series, as they make lots of references to every short and movie!\u00a0 First, Wallace\u2019s chef machine from Cracking Contraptions goes haywire and covers the whole living room and kitchen with filth.\u00a0 Just mind the train going around the floor, just like it does in The Wrong Trousers.\u00a0 Then you go outside and wash the front of his house and yard.\u00a0 You\u2019ll see Gromit\u2019s doghouse, a reformed Preston the robot dog, and make sure to flip the driveway pond around to wash the other side, too.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s back to the basement where you\u2019ll be washing one of Wallace\u2019s biggest inventions, the Knit-O-Matic from A Close Shave.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s back outside to wash some of their vehicles, like their Top Bun delivery van from A Matter of Loaf and Death, the Soccamatic from Cracking Contraptions, techno trousers from The Wrong Trousers, and Gromit\u2019s motorcycle sidecar\/biplane.\u00a0 Finally, you\u2019ll go to the moon to wash their rocket from A Grand Day Out, as well as a picnic and even the coin-op cooker robot!\u00a0 So yeah, quite a lot of stuff!\u00a0 I\u2019d say this is probably more than most other DLC packs!<\/p>\n

Aside from the persnickety game clear requirements and controls, the only other problem I had with this one is they could\u2019ve done a little bit better with the theme.\u00a0 For instance, you only get texts from Wallace as you play.\u00a0 Why not have his voice, too?\u00a0 And maybe some music from the series would\u2019ve been nice.\u00a0 But otherwise, this is a neat little DLC pack for Wallace and Gromit fans like myself.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Although you should probably tell your kids never to use a power washer inside the house!\u00a0 But kids do like to use tools just like Mommy and Daddy, so they may find some fun with this.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text and younger gamers may need help with the controls and picky game clear requirements. I wish they would have a \u2018kids mode\u2019 that would be more lenient about that.\u00a0 But oh well.\u00a0 \u00a0PowerWash Simulator: Wallace & Gromit Special Pack is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago I reviewed a game called PowerWash Simulator.\u00a0 It\u2019s a game where you use a power washer to hose down all sorts of things.\u00a0 Yeah they\u2019ll make a game out of anything nowadays, won\u2019t they?\u00a0 But since it is a video game, they got pretty imaginative with it, and you could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25485,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25483\/revisions\/25485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}