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-Glu (2005) -played on a Motorola Rokr
Summary The Aqua Teens whack the Mooninites into dynamite dreams.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the most popular shows on the Adult Swim block outliving the once fantastic Sealab 2021 and The Brak Show thanks to its even crazier craziness and extreme absurdity over the others. Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Destruct-o-thon is a bit silly, but is actually a rather bland yet slightly entertaining game. In Destruct-o-thon you choose one of the three Aqua Teens, be it Master Shake, Frylock, or Meatwad. You choose a level and get started on your menial task. There is a meter on screen that controls the momentum of the character. What you do is press the 5 key when a square moves over the center of the meter. You keep this up and the character moves faster and faster until they reach the object they are about to smash. Once there an angle meter appears and you press 5 when you see a desired angle. The character whacks the object and it goes flying down the street.
While the characters all play the same they have different means of launching objects. Shake uses a bat, Frylock shoots his laser eyes, and Meatwad morphs into a meat-boot. The graphics are pretty good and capture the look of the show. Although, that shouldn’t be hard since the look of the show is rather simplistic at times. Animation is limited and comes in the few frames for each character as they hit something and the little explosions when Carl’s car blows up. The background merely consists of Carl’s house and the Aqua Teen’s house looping over and over. Sound is almost non-existent during the game, but is does have an abridged version of the theme song on the title screen.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Destruct-o-thon is a decent waste of time for a little while, but once you unlock and play through the sixteen levels, there isn’t any reason to go back and play again. It may be worth checking out for big fans of the show and it may be turn out to be fun for some. However, others may be severely disappointed in its simplistic nature.
-Shawn
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My
Thoughts
There are
sixteen stages with a bit of variety in what you smash and
the goal of the stage. Some stages require you to achieve the greatest distance
while other goals are to get a jam-box in a pool, a Mooninite into a spaceship,
or to destroy Carl’s car with dynamite. In the dynamite stages you must also
make sure that it touches one of the small fires burning on the ground to ignite
it. Many of the stages have obstacles that can either help or hurt whatever you
just launched down the street. There are flowery looking things that give
points, bouncers that will bounce the object forward or backward depending where
you hit it, and springs that can help the object travel further. There is very
little skill involved and boils down to a game of trial and error. If one angle
doesn’t work then you just try a larger or a smaller one. 
Any humor from
the show is limited to the few phrases that come on the screen once a stage is
passed or failed. Each phrase is in line with their personality, but you’ll end
up reading the same ones over and over. Some actually speech or sound clips from
the show would have done wonders. 
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