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Cloning Clyde
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 38 critic reviews
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Game Info
Publisher: NinjaBee
Developer: NinjaBee
Genre(s): Action
Players: 8
ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Summary
[Xbox Live Arcade] Have you ever been cloned? Ever wonder what it would be like to be a chicken? A monkey? A frog? Cloning Clyde is a 3-D side-scrolling adventure, featuring (of course!) multiplayer gameplay. Play split screen on a single console, or mutate online with your friends across the world. Can you free yourselves from the myriad sinister traps and mutations that await you? Get Cloning today and find out. Play as a variety of mutant Clydes, each with unique abilities, including Chicken-Clyde, Frog-Clyde, Sheep-Clyde, and more. Play not only as Clyde himself, but also as his hundreds of clones. On a single console, join with a friend in co-op mode, or go crazy with four player versus mode. Solve exciting and addictive puzzles with a variety of resolutions. Enjoy hours of fun with two distinct game modes including 40 cooperative levels and six versus arenas. Play online through Xbox Live with up to eight friends. [Microsoft]
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What The Critics Said
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AceGamez
Buy it, enjoy it, love it and make it a success - Cloning Clyde, in any of his many guises, personifies what Xbox Live Arcade is all about, and we need more games with the same originality, sparkle and fun factor as this one.
Read Full Review >Xboxic
The menus are beautifully simplistic, and the presentation in all is a fine job. The game is absolutely hilarious, starting with the help notes in the training stage to the overall feel of Clyde’s further adventures. It’s all absurd and great fun.
Read Full Review >Gamenikki
It's over too soon, but that speaks more to Clyde's addictiveness than to the brevity of the game.
Read Full Review >Gamezilla!
Overall, this is my favorite Arcade game for the simple fact it is original. The humor, graphics, puzzles and challenge level all feel great.
Read Full Review >Extreme Gamer
It's a neat concept that differs from the normal gameplay and is really fun to cause havoc over the six available multiplayer arenas.
Read Full Review >Game Chronicles
Cloning Clyde represents everything that is exciting and innovative about XBLA. It’s a slick game with pleasing visuals and sound, enjoyable and challenging gameplay, and all around great presentation.
Read Full Review >Console Gameworld
Cloning Clyde is one of the best games on Xbox Live Arcade to date. It’s an original idea instead of a port from the Atari age.
Read Full Review >Xbox World Australia
What you end up getting with Cloning Clyde is an excellent example of a classic style puzzler remade and infused with just enough cheek and humour to definitely be worth the asking price of 800 Microsoft Points.
Read Full Review >Team Xbox
It’s just a goofy contest with about three dozen puzzling levels to keep you occupied and entertained for a while.
Read Full Review >Gamers' Temple
Cloning Clyde is a great game for those times when you’re looking to squeeze a small gaming session into your schedule. In fact, most of Cloning Clyde’s levels can be completed in under five minutes.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine
Thoroughly unserious and full of laughs, this tasty 3D sidescroller offers some entertaining twists on the typical platform game. [Sept 2006, p.81]
XGP Gaming
Cloning Clyde is a breath of fresh air that gives life back to the Arcade.
Read Full Review >Next Level Gaming
It's fresh, it's a lot of fun, and it's simple. You can't ask for much more than that.
Read Full Review >Xbox Evolved
The very best Live Arcade title to be released so far. Its simple but intuitive gameplay with have a gamer of any age hooked for quite sometime, and it was re-written the book on how to make your game original and innovative.
Read Full Review >Talk Xbox
It packs itself chock-full of gaming ecstasy – and when you throw in some superlative production values and a restrained yet delightful soundtrack, you’re looking at a very well-formed package that should be in just about everyone’s collection.
Read Full Review >Digital Entertainment News
Itching for a fun platformer that doesn’t cost much? Cloning Clyde fits the bill.
Read Full Review >Planet Xbox 360
The replay value is good with the multiplayer game modes, and if you get really bored you can spice things up with some cheat options.
Read Full Review >PGNx Media
Cloning Clyde packs about eight or nine hours of gameplay, which is quite a steal since the game only costs the equivalent of $10. It’s lighthearted and quite easy to pick up, making it perfect if you’re looking to fit 30 minutes of a game or a few hours.
Read Full Review >IGN
One of the most extensive and enjoyable games available on the Xbox Live Arcade. While it's an unfamiliar title to most, it's worth the investment.
Read Full Review >Games Radar (in-house)
An incomparably innovative combination of hilarity and diabolical puzzles, Cloning Clyde is also a total bargain at 800 Microsoft points ($5).
Read Full Review >Deeko
Cloning Clyde is a great game. The action is smooth and fun, the puzzles are challenging but built on a nice learning curve, and there is more than enough variety to keep you busy while the game lasts.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
Even at 800 Microsoft points (so, six-quid-eighty), it offers a lot of value compared to some of its fellow test-subjects, and while it does occasionally frustrate or bore, the urge to keep going remains.
Read Full Review >Yahoo! Games
More than anything, playing Cloning Clyde will give you the sense that someone had an almost unnecessary amount of fun making this game.
Read Full Review >ZTGameDomain
The simplistic mechanics and unique puzzles bring an old-school flavor to the game that should appeal to just about anyone with a love for gaming in general.
Read Full Review >DarkStation
Just when games are becoming too complex to be enjoyable, here comes a simple platformer that recaptures the fun of the genre. A nice gem on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Read Full Review >360 Gamer Magazine UK
Good fun and original. [Issue #16, p.77]
GameCritics
The maze-like level designs may seem a little chaotic at first, but their appearance is misleading. In fact, they're very logically designed and player-friendly. With just a little experimentation, solutions become readily apparent.
Read Full Review >Gaming Nexus
It's fun and a blast in multiplayer. Cloning Clyde isn't a very deep game but it can be worth your $10 if you like side scrolling games.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Cloning Clyde delivers 35 levels of interesting, puzzle-based side-scrolling at a nice price.
Read Full Review >Cheat Code Central
It's hard not to have a smirk on your face throughout most of the game as you revel in the light-hearted, comical atmosphere. It's a treat not to have to take things so seriously for a change.
Read Full Review >GameShark
It’s definitely a summer sleeper hit. At 800 points ($10) it’s double the cost of Frogger and Galaga, but I think you’ll get much more enjoyment out of this one game over those two arcade classics.
Read Full Review >GamePro
Cloning Clyde isn't the deepest puzzler in the world but at 800 Live points, it's a terrific bargain.
Read Full Review >GamingExcellence
Look into Cloning Clyde, because stepping on buttons and blowing up rocks hasn’t been this much fun in a long time.
Read Full Review >Gaming Target
The features of Cloning Clyde are certainly good, and the gameplay works for a while, but a little more shape to the story and game experience would’ve really helped grab gamers for the long haul.
Read Full Review >GamerFeed
Cloning Clyde does lack some of the visual and audio spark that other platformers possess, but it has a style all its own that make it a worthwhile addition to your Xbox Live Arcade library. It's worth the $10.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Controlling and arranging a dozen different Clydes can get tedious; it's a shame you can't bark orders to your other selves, instead of doing all the work yourself.
Read Full Review >X360 Magazine UK
No one likes finding secret hidden stuff anymore. This is 2006. [Issue 10, p.106]
Game Revolution
If you're intrigued by a puzzle platformer involving duplication and genetic mayhem, Cloning Clyde will provide a few hours of enjoyable entertainment, but not much more than that.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
TwistedTenacity gave it a4:
Insultingly easy game. The poor level design (19 Clydes in the level when you really only need about 3 of them for completion) ensures that the game feels more like work than anything that would be worth your time.
Will M. gave it a9:
Great game, excellent value for $10 considering it offers both single and multiplayer fun. You're getting a lot of gameplay for the 800 points and it offers something fresh and new to the XBLA lineup.
Adam C. gave it a10:
This is a great game. The single player has very unique elements, and the multiplayer finds a new way to use puzzles in online games to help you win. THis is definently worth the 800 points.
LunarDuality gave it a9:
Easily worth the $10. One of the few great original games out for XBLA. Once you've kicked your first chicken, you'll never want to put Clyde down.
BruinsFan gave it a9:
The Oddworld clone ive been wating for. I have been waiting years for someone to make a rip off of the classic Oddworld 2D game, finally. This game is great. One of the best XBLA games to date. I cant put this one down.
