Eidos laughs maniacally as it debuts Monster Lab

by Eric Caoili { Aug 27th 2007 at 10:30AM }

Our fantasies of one day becoming mad scientists never left us, our memories of afternoons spent cooking grotesque creatures and malformed bugs in our Creepy Crawlers oven still fresh in our minds. With our bedroom lights turned off and a Halloween-themed cassette tape playing in the background, we'd pull our aberrant creations out of the Mattel kiln, warbling ghoulishly, "Creeeeeeeepy Crawlers," just like in the commercials.

Publisher Eidos, working to realize our childhood dreams, has lifted the curtain on Monster Lab, an original and interesting IP for the Wii due next June. Backbone Entertainment (Death Jr.) is handling development for the dark, Tim-Burton-styled RPG and will offer up to 150 different kinds of mutants for evil geniuses to experiment with.

Players will have over 300 million variations to customize -- via minigames -- their mechanical, biological, and chemical monsters with before pitting them against other brutes in turn-based battles reminiscent of Pokemon. As far as online support goes, multiplayer battles, creature trading, downloadable content, and photo sharing are in the works. Grab your goggles and scamper past the post break for some Monster Lab screenshots. Don't forget to croon, "Creeeeeeeepy Crawlers," as the page loads up.

[Via NeoGAF]

Tags: backbone, eidos, minigame, monsterlab

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

samfish @ Aug 27th 2007 10:46AM

Wow, a potentially non-crappy original game for the Wii coming from a western developer.

And it's friggin' EDIOS of all people!

samfish @ Aug 27th 2007 10:46AM

Of course, I spelled their name wrong. The one word I capitalized.
Oh well.

Michael K. @ Aug 27th 2007 10:56AM

i loved creepy crawlers!

Gigatron @ Aug 27th 2007 11:01AM

Interesting. At least the graphics aren't crap. Everybody who thought that the Table Tennis graphics weren't shite, you need to pull up a screen shot from this game and a screen shot from the Table Tennis. I think you'll notice a few things different.

1. Textures
2. Character Models (someone spend time on them)
3. *gasp* A background!
4. Slight bloom effects to hide the uglies.

Now let's see if the game is fun.