Players of Telltale's previous games will already be familiar with the point-and-click-style of gameplay, although on Xbox 360 there's no real way to "point" as with a mouse on a PC, which leads to my only real disappointment with the game in that focusing on different items in the environment is often trickier than it should be with an Xbox 360 controller. Instead of being able to simply "mouse over" items in a location to see which are manipulatable or selectable, with an Xbox 360 controller the player is resigned to switching between items by moving the right thumbstick until a cursor highlights the chosen item. This can become a bit tricky for instance in the kitchen near the start of the game when I tried for several seconds to highlight a certain doorknob, but instead kept selecting all manner of items around it. With the environments constantly changing in the game (and with perspectives that often change within environments like the kitchen, depending on where the character you are controlling is standing) it makes it difficult to get "used to" this as the game progresses.
For true Wallace and Gromit fans who have been itching to "play" in their world for a bit, this is a great game. For others, I'd recommend checking out the cartoons or movie first. Fright of the Bumblebees costs 800 Microsoft points ($10) on Xbox Live Arcade or $8.95 for PC on Telltale's web site. While the PC version sports an easier-to-use mouse control scheme, the Xbox version sports 200 points worth of pretty easy-to-get Achievements. The choice is yours, so get cracking.
Fright of the Bumblebees is rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB for Comic Mischief and Mild Cartoon Violence. This game can also be found on: PC.
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