Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity is a puzzle game that was released on April 6, 2009 with an ESRB rating of E for Everyone. It is published and developed by Deep Silver, featuring a real famous physicist, Professor Heinz Wolff. Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity is a game that enables you to draw blocks and balls and have them react to real-world physics. It is a game that aims at providing fun in a virtual environment that utilizes realistic physics as its core mechanics. In general, Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity is an “Incredible Machines” style puzzle game that requires you to simply place 2D blocks and balls in the environment and have them react in order to push a button placed in a strategic location. However, it is said that the Wii version feels too shallow to be a full retail product and seems like it would be much better suited as a budget WiiWare title. There are strategic layouts throughout any given puzzle in Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity that requires you to place blocks of various shapes, sizes and weights. The gameplays objective is to arrange them in such a way that when you hit “Play” a ball or cart will drop out of a designated spot on the board and run into anything you have placed in its path, setting them in motion. The level is completed when the level button is hit, and thus player progresses to the next level. Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity lays out an idea that works relatively well with the opportunity to whip up some crazy puzzle designs from the game’s creators. The solutions to every level are not restricted as Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity employs real-time physics instead of predetermined behaviours. Although the problems associated with Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity are small, but they are plentiful. It is also said that Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity never reaches its potential as players can tinker around with the gravity in sandbox locations. However, players are not able to create their own puzzles.
Reviews
In Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity, the most famous natural phenomena is turned from a curse in everyday life into something that seems warm and fuzzy in the safe confines of a video game. Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity provides you with a virtual playground that allows you to mess around with mass and momentum with a display of physics that more or less mirrors real life. However, the puzzle is said to be too mundane to maintain player’s attention. There are 100 levels in Professor Heinz Wolff’s Gravity which play out like a dimunitive Domino rally.
“Gravity has the right stuff to be a sleeper puzzle game, but it stumbles a bit with a design that’s a little rough around the edges. It feels too light on content for its pricetag, at least on Wii. The design seems better suited for the DS platform’s pick-up-and-play experience, but the technology isn’t quite up to the game’s potential.
The Wii and DS games share the exact same level designs and bonus games, but the Wii version ends up the real version to play since it has far more processing power to handle the physics engine. On the DS, if there are more than eight sizable parts on the screen the framerate tends to dip noticeably, and it definitely affects some of the more complex puzzles and sandbox areas that are unlockables in the product. Even with better tech in the Wii version, the game seems a little too pricey for the 30 dollars the publisher’s asking for; the 20 bucks for the DS edition seems like the more comfortable pricepoint.” (IGN, 2009)
