In the upcoming DS game Tornado, all of the Earth's people, animals, plants, and buildings have been sucked up into another world by a malevolent Prince using a mysterious Black Hole Device. It's your job as one of the Cosmic Cleaners--a group of anthromorphised animals such as cats and dogs--to use gigantic tornados to grab everything in sight and transport it back to our home planet.
If Tornado sounds a little bit like the Katamari games, it's because it shares the same wacky sensibilities. The story may be a little less surreal than the adventures of the Prince of All Cosmos, but the same collect-everything-from-buildings-to-buses game play vibe is definitely front and centre.
From the review: "In Tornado, you play as cats who create, you guessed it, tornadoes. These cats are a part of the Cleanup Crew, who use tornadoes to clean up stuff and fling it into space.. A mysterious person, known only as Prince, used his Black Hole Device to steal everything on Earth and transported it to Planet 69. And since they were working on Earth, he also ended up transporting the Cleanup Crew too."
In Tornado you set out to restore all of Earth's buildings, vehicles, inhabitants and other obscure objects that have been stolen by the envious Prince using his mischievous "Black Hole Device."
With a pack of cool characters, multiplayer challenges and a fun twist on gaming action, Tornado has potential. Unfortunately, a fistfull of frustrating issues knock the A+ fun-factor out of it, but once you get the hang of things it's a decent game that can get you hooked. Plus, riding a tornado through downtown and sending buildings flying as you pitch lightning at King Kong = awesome!
