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 Scaler:
Background story
Bobby 'Scaler' Jenkins is a bright
energetic twelve-year-old boy with a
sharp wit and a keen eye. He's the daredevil
of the neighbourhood and a serious force
of nature. Bobby is an only child raised
by his single mother. His father, a
famous research scientist, disappeared
shortly after Bobby's birth. Bobby's
mother overindulges Bobby in order to
compensate for the loss of his father
and because of this Bobby has a bit
too much free rein and tends to push
things a bit too far.
From skateboarding to his love of lizards,
Bobby takes everything to the extreme.
In fact, Bobby loves lizards and everything
about them; lizards aren't just cool,
they're beyond cool. In fact, the symbol
he uses for his way of life is a blue
lizard he's drawn and perfected, which
he has dubbed 'Scaler.' When lizards
are abused in the course of shooting
a motion picture, Bobby shows up at
the premiere and protests by painting
blue 'Scalers' on the red carpet. When
oil development threatens to destroy
a natural lizard habitat, Bobby scales
the corporate building in protest and
plants a 'Scaler' flag on top of the
building. When a building project plans
to cut down an old tree that is a home
to rare lizards, Bobby tree sits until
the builder backs down.
When Bobby suspects his new neighbour,
Mr. Looger, of stealing lizard eggs,
Bobby investigates and gets caught -
knocked out cold from a blow to the
back of the head. He wakes up to discover
he's being interrogated by Captain Bootcamp,
the new star on a Saturday morning TV
show solely bent on teaching kids to
love discipline. Yuck! But now this
big lug is pumping Bobby full of lizard
energy to get him to talk. Bobby outsmarts
him and learns the real reason for his
recent rise to fame. He's really one
of a squad of dragon creatures from
another dimension who have broken into
our world. Looger is the mastermind
with Jazz, Rhombus and Turbine as the
infiltrating operatives. Bobby recognizes
Jazz as the director from the movie
set, Rhombus as the oil executive and
Turbine as the builder's bulldozer man.
But now Bobby sees them all in their
real dragon forms and learns their real
plans from Bootcamp. They're stealing
our lizard eggs and are taking them
back to their world where they're mutating
them into dragon warriors, and creating
a vast army that they'll use to take
over our world. They've got to be stopped!
No time to go for backup. Bobby sees
his chance and takes it. But even as
he does so the lizard energy takes him.
Bam! Bobby transforms into Scaler. Scaler
jumps through the portal into the Dragon
world. He's managed to escape from his
captors for the moment, but now he's
in their world and they're hot on his
heals. Scaler learns about his new abilities
from tongue strikes to claw attacks,
from climbing to vine riding, from double
jumping to electric bomb attacks. A
fellow immigrant to this bizarre land
named Leon befriends Scaler. Leon helps
Scaler improve upon his abilities and
to acquire the ability to camouflage
himself. Scaler and Leon join forces
and Scaler must use his new, lizard-like
skills to find all the eggs and stop
Mr. Looger's diabolical plot to takeover
the world!
Features
- Power ups - grab lots of "Klokkie
Balls" and seek out the rare "Crystal-Gems"!
Use them to rev-up the skills necessary
to overcome obstacles and battle evil
enemies
- Transformations - take the shape,
abilities and weapons of five different
characters -essential to progress through
the game!
- Climbing - scale vertical surfaces
and even go all the way upside down!
- Sliding - surf on wild vines and
use the static electricity to juice-up
your electric discharge weapon
- Camouflage - go "Super-Stealth"
(a super-cool proprietary game technology),
to blend in with environments and fool
your enemies
- Visuals - exotic plants, wondrous
creatures and beautiful landscapes
- Huge World - 10 original levels to
explore
- Humour - Scaler is
quick witted and laughs in the face
of dragon danger
Check out
the Scaler Q & A
We look forward to bringing you a full
review closer to the games release
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