For me, the Showdown mode is the best way to enjoy the game with friends, but Versus is a great way to get some practice in, if nothing else.
You can choose a set number of games, which will be randomly selected for you, or you can manually pick each game you’d like to play.
If you want to jump straight into a battle of skills with your friends, then versus is the mode to flee to. Versus mode is similar to Showdown in that it’s a compilation of minigames, but this time minus the boardgame part. I’m not complaining - well, not until my opponent uses dynamite on me when the category was supposed to be “recyclable objects”. On the tower-destroying game, no matter my category, I seemed to be able to type “dynamite” to obliterate the crap out of my opponent. It’s very clever, although not entirely foolproof - even though the game prompts you with a category before coming up with an item, it doesn’t seem very well enforced. For another where you need to catch falling objects and balance them on a platform, you’ll want to choose something fairly small and square. For instance, in a minigame where you need to launch objects at your opponent’s tower to knock it down, you’ll want to choose something big and heavy - rocks, or bricks, or, I dunno, a hippopotamus, as long as you don’t mind upsetting PETA. A text wheel allows you to type in your own word, and the game supposedly supports over 35,000 inputs. While the minigames themselves don’t sound particularly… Scribblenaut-ified, that comes in the form of having to conjure your own object that you’ll use in the minigame. It’s all harmless though, and every minigame is fun in its own right. There’s a Scribblenauts version of Flappy Bird, for instance, and another that feels a lot like Angry Birds. Falling into a number of different categories, each one is unique, even though some feel very familiar. The boardgame aspect is merely a nice framing device for the minigames themselves, which are the real stars of the show. The winner of the minigame will get the benefit of the card - be it moving closer to the finish line, or sending another player back a few steps. move forward three spaces, pick up two cards - and while some are instant, others will require you to play a minigame first. Taking it in turns to play a card, each has a command - e.g. Showdown plays out like a board game, which you can play with up to three other players or solo against the CPU. Both are compilations of minigames - over 25 in total, meaning there’s plenty of variety on offer. The main offerings of Scribblenauts Showdown are its Showdown and Versus modes. Primarily a multiplayer game, it’s not quite what you’d expect from a Scribblenauts title - and at first that shook me a little - but once I saw what Showdown had to offer, I was hooked. Games that mainly comprise lots of minigames generally bore me pretty quickly (more likely, I get tired of losing again and again…) but Scribblenauts Showdown kept me coming back for more. If you’re in the market for a new party game to play with friends, look no further than Scribblenauts Showdown.
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