Echochrome preview PSP

Echochrome preview for Sony PSP

What is Echochrome? Well, you may have wondered how platform games can adapt to the leap to 3D, and Echochrome shows one way of providing a unique experience. It's a shift in gameplay, much in the way Portal astounded gamers last year, and yet Echochrome looks simple and is coming to the PSP. Echochrome is a simple sets of levels that require you to get from one place to another, but the platforms don't meet up and the trick is to rotate the arena until they look like the do. In other words, this is a game where optical illusions work for you. Echochrome is going to captivate and frustrate gamers in the way all great games do. Read our full Echochrome preview for more information in this month's free magazine.Click here to read the Echochrome preview for Sony PSP now! Echochrome preview for Sony PSP
Looking at things from a different angle can give them a completely new perspective, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Echochrome. Part Lemmings, part puzzle game and part head mash, you have to guide your small men through the puzzles, moving the puzzle with the D-pad to get them through. The twist is that the physics of the puzzle depend on which perspective you've moved it to, so if you turn it 180 degrees, down becomes up and up becomes down. Initially this seems confusing, but it's actually quite simple, and after a play through the short tutorial, you'll get to understand Echochrome's five basic principles. There are five laws that govern how you play: you can join up gaps in the pathway by changing the perspective so that gap is hidden fromview (if you change the perspective so two paths appear to be touching, they are), you can stop the character from falling off the puzzle when they drop through a hole by moving a platform below the hole, you can make holes disappear by hiding them behind part of the puzzle, and you can make your character jump from one section of the puzzle to another when they walk on a special spot. Click here to read the Echochrome preview for Sony PSP now!