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Meet Moxxie, a twentysomething city girl with a bare midriff and a limitless supply of wisecracks. She also has a job as a reporter for a supermarket tabloid that specializes in spooky encounters, so it's no surprise when her editor sends her to investigate a ghostly appearance in a psychic's apartment. Things get even crazier from there as you help Moxxie look into a variety of eerie high jinks and uncover a mystery that will have you both in stitches! Solve hidden object puzzles, beat mini-games and chat with Moxxie's dense but good-natured pals Shaggy and Boar as you work your way from one vibrantly animated scene to the next!REVIEW
Amidst all the spooky mansions, archaeological dig sites and yard sales it's sometimes hard to distinguish one hidden object game from the next. There's no danger of that with Moxxie's Tabloid Adventures, the offbeat tale of a tabloid reporter's quest to land the "big scoop."
Did you ever wonder who comes up with the stories about alien visitors and Bigfoot sightings that you see on the covers of the trashiest of the supermarket tabloids? That would be Moxxie, the newest reporter for Next To You magazine. Her boss sends her out to investigate various paranormal sightings, like ghosts in an attic, or the vampire that's rumored to be living in the local cemetery. However, unlike other games that take the subject matter seriously, this is a light-hearted romp backed by bouncy music, bright cartoonish graphics and Moxxie's sarcastic back-talk.
Moxxie herself is quite possibly the strangest-looking casual game character to date, complete with pale egg-shaped head, whisker-like hair and bizarre stick-figure arms that poke out of a red tank top / blue mini-skirt combo. The game's irreverence and point-and-click gameplay are vaguely reminiscent of something like Zombie Cow Studios' Ben There, Done That! (albeit much easier, less polished, and designed squarely for the "casual" crowd) as opposed to the standard hidden object adventure game that relies on realistic backgrounds and clip art objects. It's strange, to be sure, but there's something endearing and fresh about it all the same. Read more...
