Ovenbreak: Infinity

Ovenbreak – Infinity – Help the gingerbread man escape to freedom!

Ever since Shrek hit the cinema it’s been one of those things where I’ve wondered what a gingerbread man gets up to when he’s not being munched on. Thankfully the answer’s come in the form of Ovenbreak – Infinity.

What you must do is help the spicy and delicious man of dough escape to freedom as he realises he’s about to be baked in the oven. To do this, you have some basic controls which you must attempt to master. Running is done automatically from left to right as the ground and sweets move towards your gingerbread man. Pressing jump causes him to jump, tapping slide will get him to do that action and if you tap jump the slide button changes to hook, which if you hit this at the right time your gingerbread man will use his candy cane to swing greater distances (which is really useful when trying to jump over big gaps or reach high up jelly beans).

The game has lovely transitions from different phases to another, so it blends from the oven to tabletop to jack-in-the-box stage and so on. The only difference between each phase of the level is the speed which increases and your eyes must be peeled for every possible danger that is going to come your way.

Your timing is the most crucial part of this game. If you get it right, you’ll barely ever lose a life, get it wrong and you’ll miss hooking or accidentally hit something or fall through the gaps. Each of these accidents costs you a life and if you’re not careful you’ll spend all three with relative ease. Fortunately there are some yummy letters (which spell the word FREEDOM) and as soon as you have gobbled all of these up you will not only get more points but also pick up an extra life (but you can’t exceed the 3 you have). Keep your eyes open for the blue cat heads which give you bonus points.

There are four difficult levels to master which all are effectively the same sort of thing but just more challenging than the one before. Overall this game is pretty entertaining and will keep you glued to the screen for quite a while.

Positives

Four challenging levels

Cute and neat graphics

Pretty entertaining

Getting all the jelly beans and surviving the level intact is nearly impossible

Negatives

Very repetitive

Frustrating

Controls aren’t the greatest

Music drives you crazy after a while

3 stars