Welcome to a brand new edition of Beyond Co-Op Reviews.  We've given the feature a bit of a facelift, and are going to continue to bring you great game reviews of games that don't necessarily have a co-op mode.  

Batman, WET, NFS: Shift, Darkest of Days and Scribblenauts!

We talked a bit about Scribblenauts a few months back, a unique Nintendo DS title from developer 5th Cell.  Check out our original post in regards to the concepts of the game.  The game will be on store shelves tomorrow, September 15th, and by all accounts looks like it should be a solid seller (#5 at the time of this writing).  

While the game doesn't have any co-op to speak of, we do think the game offers a form of social co-op play that will be incredibly interesting to watch.  We've gone ahead and started an official thread to share all of your solutions with each other.  It'll be really interesting to see just how many different ways people solve the puzzles at hand.  

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Sometimes a game comes along that's premise is so awesome, so original, we simply can't ignore it - regardless of whether or not that game has cooperative gameplay.  Scribblenauts for the Nintendo DS is that game.  

The idea behind it is fairly simple, collect a star - win the level.  The trick behind the 200 plus levels in the game is how to obtain the star.  The game is completely open in the puzzle solving, all that is required is for the player to write the word of an object to help obtain the star.

For instance, if the star is stuck in a tree; you could write Ladder.  The game would spawn a ladder, you'd climb it, and collect the star.  Or you could write chainsaw, and cut the tree down and collect the star.  Perhaps you would write lasso, and pull it down.  The game is powered by the Objectnaut database of over 10,000 words that you can write to spawn objects that you can fully interact with.

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