Super duck balls?
Super Rub a Dub uses the Sixaxis motion control exclusively. You use the controller to tilt a wading pool to control your duck. You can tilt the pool in any direction you see fit. You "control" (through tilting) a large mother duck that must run into bubbles containing smaller ducks in order to free them. The objective is to try and free all of the other ducks in the wading pool and lead them to safety (which is ironically a giant plug hole). Some of the earlier levels will start off just requiring you to lead these ducks to safety, but later levels will add enemies such as sharks that attempt to eat you and your baby ducklings if you get too close. If you shake the Sixaxis then you will bounce the wading pool up and down. This can shake the sharks off the level, but you also take the risk of losing a few little ducklings. After you complete a level, the word "Quacktactular!" expands in bright pink letters on the screen and it shows you the time you took and the number of ducks you saved.
There are three difficulty levels in Super Rub-A-Dub; fun, tough and tricky. Each of these difficulty levels has fifteen different platforms which should provide enough of a challenge. The game supports up to four players, but you'll need to take turns trying to free the ducks the quickest as simultaneous multiplayer doesn't seem to be available. We also noted an option to download more content which may mean we'll see more downloadable tubs in the future. There was also an option to tell you what your online "position" was, which may indicate the game will include some kind of network support for high score rankings.
Flipping sharks; satisfyingly fun.
Unfortunately we don't really know how far along this build of Super Rub-a-Dub was, but with the game due out in less than a month at the launch of the PlayStation 3 in Australia we'd say the game was probably nearly finished. Upon picking the game up it was easy to have reservations about the simplicity of Super Rub-a-Dub but when you give it a bit of a chance it's obvious this could become quite an addictive game. Shaking enemies off the platform and leading baby duckings to safety is surprisingly satisfying. If the game includes online high scores, then it could lend itself to many hours of duck saving antics.
We managed to snag a couple of short game play videos, which you can check out below:
Screen only - Ouicktime - 3.95MB
Screen with controller - Ouicktime - 2.32MB
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