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Guilty Party Updated Hands-On

By Sophia Tong

We try to find out just who stole that pocket watch in Disney's upcoming mystery party game.

There's nothing quite like the pride you feel when you solve a good mystery on your own, but what's even better is solving it first and making everyone else feel bad. Guilty Party can be a solo, competitive, or cooperative endeavor, but let's face it, part of the appeal to winning is claiming victory over your little sister or teaming up to outsmart your parents. This Wii-exclusive original IP from Wideload Games will put your detective skills to the test as you try to uncover the truth before someone else in its competitive Party mode, which is randomized each time you play so that the experience is always new. For our first impressions of the game's Story mode, please read our preview here.

You'll meet a variety of interesting people.

You'll meet a variety of interesting people.

As you go through the game's Story mode, you'll eventually unlock six different locations that you can play through again in Party mode. You can choose to play competitively or cooperatively, but our demo focused on the competitive aspects, such as the use of savvy cards. Savvy cards are essentially detective power-ups that can either help you or hinder your opponent(s). Between turns in Competitive mode, you play as Mr. Valentine, the nemesis from the story and try to sabotage the other team. You can lock rooms to prevent people from entering, set up traps, or use a paranoia card to make a witness run away from the other players. The game is turn based (with a set number of turns to start with), and you have a limited number of action points to use. If you think you're close to nailing the crook and want to get ahead, you can use tokens, which will give you a longer turn.

The main goal in each game is to interrogate all the witnesses and jot down the clues that they give you until you have a profile of the guilty party--sorry, couldn't resist. In our example, we were trying to find the thief who stole a pocket watch. After the interrogation, the person's statement appears in your notebook, and you're armed with a trusty lie detector to see whether or not he or she is telling you the truth. Because your opponent can see what you see onscreen, you can always bluff by holding the 1 button discreetly so that no one will know whether the person who ate the pudding is round or skinny. You can choose whether or not to put the right answer into your notebook, but you can always mess around and hope that your competitor might take the bait.

There are more than 50 minigames in Guilty Party, and you can choose from three difficulty settings. When you choose your character in the beginning, the difficulty setting determines the difficulty of the minigames. Once you decide what kind of game you want to play, you can choose another difficulty to determine the length and complexity of the game. The harder it is, the more suspects and witnesses you have to question. Minigames are quick and easy, allowing you to use the remote to play the saxophone or to tickle a person's nose. There's a hypnotizing minigame where you tilt the remote in sync with the dangling pocket watch onscreen until your suspect is under your control.

You'll be able to solve mysteries in six different locations, including a cruise ship!

You'll be able to solve mysteries in six different locations, including a cruise ship!

Guilty Party has that quirky cartoon humor and visuals that can easily be tied to a Disney property. Even though the game isn't based off a series or movie, it certainly feels like it at times. We'll update you with more information as soon as it becomes available. Guilty Party is set to be released on the Wii in the second half of this year.

By Sophia Tong

22 Comments

  • wario96

    Posted Mar 27, 2010 7:28 am GMT

    @ShooterMcGavin. why would i want to do that when i'm the only person who under stands that super mario bros. 2 isn't realy super mario bros. 2

  • ShooterMcGavin2

    Posted Mar 23, 2010 3:20 pm GMT

    This Looks like something fun to enjoy with the family

  • wario96

    Posted Mar 22, 2010 2:11 pm GMT

    i hate it when disney trys to take over another form of entertainment. one day they will RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • tycon2010

    Posted Mar 17, 2010 11:52 am GMT

    لعبه جميله جدااااااااااااا شكرااااااااااا

  • Pyrobon

    Posted Mar 12, 2010 6:08 am GMT

    I can't believe people still won't play games because "they look too cartoonish". O_O Grow up...
    Playing a cartoonish game won't make you look stupid. It's an art style...

  • EvilEvilDave

    Posted Mar 11, 2010 8:34 pm GMT

    At a guess seems like a poor Disney game? But who knows, might be a fun concept, we'll see how the reviews turned out. For being a family console Wii certainly has few enough good party games.

  • infinitebohr

    Posted Mar 11, 2010 11:37 am GMT

    Of course it looks kiddy yall...its a Disney mystery game. Geez...what do you expect? God of War vs Finding Nemo??. Lighten up, not every game needs to have Halo or MD:2 graphics to be fun. If that's what you want, sell your Wii now and free up the message boards. As for me, this looks fun and I think the kids will enjoy it a lot.

  • Todo911

    Posted Mar 10, 2010 5:27 pm GMT

    Looks cartoonish but who know i should give it a try....Have nothin to lose

  • Gargaglio5tatus

    Posted Mar 10, 2010 4:29 pm GMT

    Disney? Cartoon mystery game, including a ten year-old hamburgler? This looks realllyyy.... bad

  • Vinder_DarkWolf

    Posted Mar 10, 2010 1:08 pm GMT

    A little too cartoonish for me, but you never know, it might be good.

  • GatsuBlackSword

    Posted Mar 10, 2010 10:13 am GMT

    Looks Like Pheonix Wright + Clue Seems Interesting To Me. Might Be Something To Look Out For.

  • hrothgar99

    Posted Mar 10, 2010 7:38 am GMT

    is it for pc??

  • Senor_Kami

    Posted Mar 10, 2010 7:21 am GMT

    The cop looks like Scott Shelby

  • KillerLiew

    Posted Mar 10, 2010 4:38 am GMT

    I'm not really interested in this game ... kinda bored for me.

  • wahyudil

    Posted Mar 9, 2010 8:42 pm GMT

    interesting .... I'm curious ...

  • Gelugon_baat

    Posted Mar 9, 2010 7:42 pm GMT

    In Valve Steam forums, making such a mistake would lead to doles of "-rep" demerits, possibly leading to getting whacked by the dreaded Banhammer (especially if some vengeful users email that erroneous statement over to Gabe Newell). Said person who panicked below me is lucky he/she/it is in GameSpot.

  • Gelugon_baat

    Posted Mar 9, 2010 7:40 pm GMT

    "You can choose whether or not to put the right answer into your notebook, but you can always mess around and hope that your competitor might take the bait."

    If this game is any more grim, i.e. not Disney-made, there will be inevitable references to a certain Japanese thriller IP.

    And some person below me ought to consider freeing up their bandwidth a bit. Deleting and editing messages require the transmit of .php (or some other HTML-compatible language) codes criss-crossing from one's browser over to GameSpot's server and back, so a clear bandwidth makes things easier.