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King Oddball is 10Tons’s quirky new physics puzzler, in which you take charge of its title character: a giraffe-tongued, moon-helmeted, rock-spewing disembodied head which appears to be terrorizing Earth from some not-quite-next dimension. The King’s sole purpose in life is to destroy the world, as evidenced by the game’s extended title and one-line intro: “King Oddball ends the world.”
Ending the world requires destroying the armed forces that are leading the anti-Oddball resistance. Each level pits the King against a new assortment of tanks, helicopters, and soldiers which must be crushed for the sake of global annihilation. Floating above his opposition, the King rotates his head (entire self) 180 degrees in a metered pace. With his gargantuan purple tongue, he automatically grabs one of the three giant rocks that are available at the start of each level, and swings it along with him. When you tap the screen, King Oddball releases the rock and it goes flying according to the tongue’s trajectory—hopefully into a tank. This bizarre method of attack is highly effective against the military, as a single hit will always blow up an unshielded enemy. |
