The mini-games are unimaginative and barely entertaining, and there's the constant thought that the dice rolls are fixed to ensure that each level takes as long as possible to play.
And unfortunately for the Desperate Housewives, that's the case here.Īlthough the storyline is more interesting than most games, the action quickly becomes repetitive. It's a style of play that can, when not done quite right, get boring. Mystery squares give you bonuses in terms of extra moves or force you to skip a go, money squares give you credit to spend on bonuses in the shops that occasionally crop up, and mini-game squares drop you in a spin-off challenge. The boardgame aspect includes everything you'd expect to find. Grab the required number of clues before the opposing, computer-controlled character that you compete against in each level, and you win, furthering the plot. Moving in with Bree, she endeavours to uncover Edie's plot and rectify matters.Īlong the way, each of the other characters get involved with their own sub-plots that all end up entwining with Susan's plight.Įach level you play contains clues, and it's the race to collect all of these clues that forms the goal of the game. She discovers that Edie has talked the bank manager into repossessing and selling her house. It centres around Susan (Teri Hatcher's character), who returns to Wisteria Lane after taking a holiday. As you go, you progress through the storyline, which is so complex it could have dropped right out of the TV show's scriptwriter's hands.
You play as each of the main characters from the TV show, every one of whom has around a half-dozen individual levels to complete. In an age when 3D visuals are becoming more prevalent and we praise games for their forward-looking nature, what we've got here is an old-school, roll-the-dice affair. The same sort of suspense and mystery pervades Desperate Housewives, the mobile phone game, and Gameloft's managed to recreate the spaghetti-like storylines in what is, essentially, a tarted-up boardgame. But for all that, it's got something to it: enough mystery and intrigue to fill a library's worth of detective thrillers, even if most of it is set in a suburban domesticity that's hardly evocative of high tension. Have you ever watched Desperate Housewives? A more spiteful, conniving, back-stabbing f'ed-up bunch of women you'll never meet.
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