Sparked by final demand bills that have popped through the letterbox, Wallace sets out to make some money. Wallace is hungry, and it’s up to Gromit to make sure it doesn’t take too long before his eggs, toast and honey are sat in front of him ready to be devoured.

At regular intervals throughout the story control is switched from Wallace to Gromit, so really there are two playable characters, although they have no unique abilities. In classic point and click style, the gameplay revolves around interacting with the environment and using the various items picked up along the way to solve puzzles that forward the story. With the WASD keys reserved for movement about the beautifully realised environments, which include Wallace’s house at 62 West Wallaby Street and a collection of shops down the road, the mouse is used for interaction. Telltael’s point and click treatment fits the Wallace & Gromit universe to a tea. As anyone who’s seen one of the Aardman claymation TV films will know, Wallace’s many contraptions invariably get him into trouble, and it’s up to his dog Wallace to bail him out. The giant bee invasion is, of course, the result of one of Wallace’s doomed from the start business ideas.

From Telltale Games, the episodic point and click specialist behind the release of Sam & Max and Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, Fright of the Bumblebees is a short, roughly four-hour episode that sees the Lancashire inventor and his super smart dog battle to save Wigan from a giant bee invasion. Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures Season One kicks off on PC today with the release of Fright of the Bumblebees.

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