Without wishing to spoil any surprises, the games consist of simple avoidance tasks, throwing games (including a food fight!), a game like "Simple Simon Says", a ski race, and so on. This perspective switch comes in handy on several of the games where you have to traverse a train carriage in one direction and then return to where you started. That's not as bad as it sounds, as there are only nine controls - movement, primary and secondary actions, jump and a perspective switch - you can flip the camera to face Hero Boy in most situations. This game is played in the third person, with keyboard controls. Of course, as we're dealing with the modern version of Santa Claus, the North Pole consists of an enormous city and factory that is populated by elves, presents and lots of machinery. The first half of the game takes place on the Polar Express itself the second half, at the North Pole - or at least, the story-teller's version of how the North Pole looks. Though having said there's no plot, most of the puzzles do appear to tell aspects of the story of the film, as far as I can tell, not having seen the film. But beyond that, the rest of the game is about the adventures of 'Hero Boy' - they never even give him a name, nor any of the other children, for that matter. I would say it has a premise: boy doubts existence of Santa Claus, magical train (the eponymous Polar Express) shows up to take him to find Santa at North Pole. I wouldn't say there is much of a plot to this game. Her comments are in bold italic text at the end of the review. This game is clearly aimed at people much younger than me, so I've asked Purple Bear (my 10-year old daughter) for some comments. Some of the animated cut-scenes are taken directly from the film. As you'd expect, they've employed a good few of the actors from the film including Jim Hanks (Tom Hanks' brother), Daryl Sabara (Spy Kids) and Nona Gaye (The Matrix movies). The Polar Express is an arcade adventure game, linked with the animated film of the same name. The almost real look of the game's three-dimensional characters and environments follows the style of the film, inspired by Van Allsburg's illustrations.
In addition to the train itself, platform-style exploration and collecting challenges also await in the game's other main 3D "chapter" levels, such as the North Pole. Along the way, they'll hunt for lost presents, solve puzzles, play mini-games, and meet characters like the Girl Know-It-All, the Lonely Boy, Smokey and Steamer, and Santa's elves.
Players board the title train for a ride to the North Pole to meet Santa himself. This video game version of The Polar Express is based on the 2004 holiday season feature film, which follows the story of Chris Van Allsburg's children's book.
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