Top Trumps: Doctor Who

Top Trumps: Doctor Who

The Coverart for the Top Trumps: Doctor Who game for DS, PS2 and PC
Developer(s) Ironstone Partners
Publisher(s) Eidos Interactive
BBC Multimedia
Series Doctor Who
Platform(s) Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Windows, Wii
Release date(s)

PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows

  • EU: May 16, 2008
  • AUS: May 23, 2008

Wii

  • EU: December 5, 2008
Genre(s) Card game
Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer

Top Trumps: Doctor Who is a video game for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Windows and PlayStation 2 consoles, based on the popular Top Trumps card game. It was published by Eidos. It is the first Doctor Who video game in 11 years since 1997, Destiny of the Doctors.

Part of the Top Trumps Adventures games, the game is set in the Doctor Who universe and features characters from the Tenth Doctor and Ninth Doctor's adventures including the Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones, Capt Jack Harkness, Dalek, Cyberman and Slitheen from series 1 to series 3 of the new series all in the animation style of the animated stories The Infinite Quest and Scream of the Shalka (excluding the pictures on the cards being actual pictures from the show).

A version was released for the Wii on 5 December 2008 only in the UK.

Gameplay

Players each receive a deck of cards and attempt to win all of their opponent's cards. Each card features characters or events from the Doctor Who universe and has statistics which define its strengths and weaknesses. Players choose which of these statistics will be higher than their opponent's card, the winner keeps both cards and play continues.[1]

The game features two modes: adventure mode, where the player competes against AI controlled opponents, and a versus mode where two players go head-to-head.[2]

Reception

The game currently holds a 53 percent rating from Metacritic based on 6 reviews.[3] Eurogamer gave it a 7/10 rating, saying it was nicely done with enough data to please fans of the TV show while having not mucked about with the classic Top Trumps gameplay.[4]

Reception
Aggregate score
PublicationScore
DSPCPS2
GameRankings60%[5]40%[6]47%[7]

See also

References

  1. Yin-Poole, Wesley (2008-05-21). "Top Trumps: Dr Who Review". videogamer.com. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
  2. Harrison, Dave (2008-05-23). "DS Game Review Top Trumps: Doctor Who". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  3. "Top Trumps: Doctor Who". Metacritic.
  4. "DS Roundup Review • Page 2 • Eurogamer.net". Eurogamer.net. 9 July 2008.
  5. "Top Trumps: Doctor Who Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  6. "Top Trumps: Doctor Who Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved 2010-09-20.
  7. "Top Trumps: Doctor Who Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved 2010-09-20.


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