{"id":25493,"date":"2025-03-21T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25493"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:23:17","slug":"wallace-and-gromits-grand-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/21\/wallace-and-gromits-grand-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Games!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So we all know that Wallace and Gromit have had lots of stop motion clay adventures on the small and big screen.\u00a0 But did you know they\u2019ve had quite a lot of video games, too?\u00a0 They\u2019re both old and recent and cover a wide variety of genres, too!\u00a0 So to end Wallace and Gromit Week, I thought we\u2019d go over all their video games here.\u00a0 And if there were\/are any mobile games or browser games starring them, I won\u2019t be going over those.\u00a0 Either I missed out on them or don\u2019t feel like going THAT deep.<\/p>\n

Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo<\/strong><\/p>\n

So the first Wallace and Gromit game was actually during the PS2 era.\u00a0 I had it on the PS2 anyway.\u00a0 It\u2019s a 3D platformer where you play as Gromit and Wallace follows behind and sometimes gives you an invention to help you progress, like jump boots or a propeller to help you glide down from a jump.\u00a0 The story is that the pair are off to visit the zoo to see the baby polar bear they adopted.\u00a0 I THINK it\u2019s the same kid polar bear from the Creature Comforts short, so that\u2019s cool.\u00a0 But when they get there, they get a distress note from the polar bears!\u00a0 Turns out the evil penguin from The Wrong Trousers (who was prisoned in the zoo) has kidnapped all the baby animals and is forcing their parents to work for him to get more diamonds.\u00a0 So Wallace and Gromit must stop him!\u00a0 See, everyone says that the new movie Vengeance Most Fowl is when Feathers McGraw the penguin made his first attempt at revenge!\u00a0 But it was actually way before that in this game!\u00a0 Anyway it\u2019s a typical PS2 era platformer.\u00a0 I got almost all the way to the end but a shooting gallery section that was super hard stumped me.\u00a0 I hate those spikes in difficulty that games back then sometimes had!<\/p>\n

Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember when nearly every movie had a game to go with it?\u00a0 They don\u2019t really do that much anymore, do they?\u00a0 This was also a 3D game and was during the PS2 era.\u00a0 But it was a bit more open world-like and had you use vacuums like Luigi\u2019s Mansion to suck up rabbits.\u00a0 For some reason I just couldn\u2019t get into this one.\u00a0 It just didn\u2019t gel with me.\u00a0 I remember it being a bit meandering and having no direction either.<\/p>\n

Wallace & Gromit\u2019s Grand Adventures<\/strong><\/p>\n

TellTale Games used to be so awesome.\u00a0 Before they made all those Walking Dead games (I call them Follow Your Nose Adventures), they made a lot of REAL good point and click adventures.\u00a0 They were at their best around this time, making games like this, Tales of Monkey Island, and Sam & Max: The Devil\u2019s Playhouse (which is almost poetic in play).\u00a0 Just like most of their other games, these were split into episodes, which each one having a self contained adventure, but they do reference earlier adventures in later ones.\u00a0 Each episode felt like you were playing a new Wallace and Gromit short film.\u00a0 Sure they didn\u2019t look quite as good, but they were just as charming.\u00a0 I\u2019ll go over each one a bit here:<\/p>\n

Fright of the Bumblebees<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their latest venture is a honey delivery service.\u00a0 They get the honey straight from the source, and then send it through pipes so people can just turn on a faucet and have it ready for their tea and crumpets (this is the UK after all).\u00a0 As someone who works in the plumbing department of a major hardware store, this seems like a plumbing nightmare to me.\u00a0 But when a big order comes in, Wallace is worried he won\u2019t have enough food for the bees.\u00a0 So he gathers ingredients for a muscle growth formula to use on his flowers.\u00a0 But the doped up pollen causes the bees to grow, too!\u00a0 So now Wallace and Gromit must figure out how to stop the giant bees from rampaging the town!<\/p>\n

The Last Resort<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wallace and Gromit are looking forward to going to the beach on holiday.\u00a0 Maybe they can go to Blackpool and ride the Wallace and Gromit Thrill-O-Matic ride (yes that actually exists there).\u00a0 But unfortunately, a bad storm has ruined their plans and flooded their basement.\u00a0 So they decide to turn their basement into a beach and invite the neighbors over for a staycation at their mock resort hotel!\u00a0 But it turns into a mock \u201cmurder mystery\u201d instead as they try to solve the case of who bonked one of their neighbors on the head\u2026and why?<\/p>\n

Muzzled!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think this one is my favorite.\u00a0 The storm from the last episode has destroyed a local animal shelter.\u00a0 Monty Muzzle has come to town to help raise money for the animal shelter with a carnival.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Monty is a con-artist who uses his three trained whippets to rob the townsfolk during the fair. So it\u2019s up to Wallace and Gromit to find a way to stop him.\u00a0 In the end, Monty gets his comeuppance and the three whippets find new loving homes with the folks in town.\u00a0 Very nice.<\/p>\n

The Bogey Man<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is my least favorite because it\u2019s just kind of weird.\u00a0 Wallace is trying to get into a exclusive golf country club, but it turns out that the town they live in was built over the golf course.\u00a0 And the golf course is actually an underground death trap built by what looks like Wallace and Gromit\u2019s evil ancestors.\u00a0 So they go off to save all their neighbors.\u00a0 Yeah it\u2019s just bizarre.<\/p>\n

Wallace & Gromit\u2019s Grand Getaway<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a long stretch between Wallace and Gromit games, but this one came out around a little over a year ago.\u00a0 And it\u2019s a VR game, too!\u00a0 Since I\u2019ve been blind in my left eye since birth and can\u2019t do VR very well, I thought I\u2019d never get to play this one.\u00a0 But last year for Christmas, my brother Jeff got one of those Meta VR things and it came with the Wallace and Gromit game!\u00a0 So I went over to his house recently and played it!\u00a0 In the game, Wallace and Gromit are on holiday again and are about to go to a country club golf course.\u00a0 OK this is the second game where Wallace plays golf, so is it canon that he\u2019s a golfer now?\u00a0 Anyway, so Wallace mistakenly thinks their reservation isn\u2019t until tomorrow, but it\u2019s actually today!\u00a0 So he decides he\u2019ll take the rocket he built in A Grand Day Out to get there faster.\u00a0 Wallace also invented a robotic caddy for this trip, so in some areas you\u2019ll play as either the caddy, Gromit, or even Wallace.\u00a0 I find it interesting that they based this game on A Grand Day Out considering that their later adventures were much more exciting.\u00a0 Anyway, the rocket malfunctions and they end up going to Mars!\u00a0 Wallace is blissfully unaware of this, so he thinks they\u2019re still on their golf holiday when they get there.\u00a0 So once on Mars, you must help Wallace get through the golf course while gathering the rocket parts to get home.\u00a0 The game is a mix of job simulator type stuff, such as helping Gromit pack by picking up the right items and putting them in the suitcase, and carnival style mini-games.\u00a0 I had a bit of trouble with the shooting gallery game and the whack a mole game, so that\u2019s when I stopped playing.\u00a0 But I got about two thirds of the way through it and only played for about an hour and a half, so it\u2019s pretty short.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it was my vision or the game just being hard, but I do wish they could\u2019ve made the games easier, especially since kids would probably gravitate towards this game.\u00a0 And once you get to Mars, the game has a different style that makes it feel like another game. And the animations are pretty choppy.\u00a0 So yeah, I\u2019ve played better VR games before.<\/p>\n

PowerWash Simulator: Wallace & Gromit Special Pack<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the newest of the Wallace and Gromit games, and I just reviewed so please go read that review.\u00a0 But in short, it\u2019s DLC for PowerWash Simulator that lets you power wash the insides and outside of Wallace and Gromit\u2019s house, as well as their vehicles and inventions, even their rocket!<\/p>\n

Shaun the Sheep<\/strong><\/p>\n

So Wallace and Gromit\u2019s spinoff, Shaun the Sheep, has had its own successes with two movies and a long running TV show that\u2019s still going today.\u00a0 They\u2019ve had a few games as well, including a couple of DS games and mobile titles I missed out on.\u00a0 I did review one game on the Switch<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 There\u2019s a place called GameBox that\u2019s like an interactive game room where you can play a game called Shaun the Sheep: Championsheeps.\u00a0 There\u2019s one near me, so I\u2019d like to go sometime, but it also sounds expensive!<\/p>\n

Anyway so that\u2019s all the Wallace and Gromit video games!\u00a0 Have you played any of them?\u00a0 Let me know in the comments! Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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