Reminiscent of Lode Runner from “back in the day” and a bit like Lemmings, the Professor has a series of rules he obeys, and you must navigate him through the increasingly difficult levels by using logic. He won’t do anything on his own, and there are challenges both from the fantastic landscapes and from his enemies, the rage-bots.

There were enough different objects, from barrels to crates to magnets to inflatable version of all of the above, and various types of terrains from grass to ice to sand that change the way each of the objects behave that it was entertaining. The landscapes are the stuff of a child’s fantasy - often shaped like animals. In the child levels, there is an informational window that pops up and tells you little facts about the animal each level was patterned after. My son NEVER ONCE read the little blurb, but it didn’t bother him to just skip past it either.

The download didn’t take too long, although I had trouble initially entering in my password. I imagine that only happens with a review copy though. The graphics are entertaining, though simple. If you leave the professor standing alone for a while, he does various things to entertain himself. When he slides across the ice, he flails around until finally settling in to a surfer-style that appealed to my son quite a bit.

You can adjust the volume to include background music or not as you choose. A little theme song plays at the end of each simple level which my son really liked… and you get a little “pat on the back” statement for each level completed which also appealed to my son.

Overall, once you have completed a level, you aren’t likely to play it again… however, there are loads of levels to compensate for that.

It’s nice to play a game with little to no violence (the Rage-bots aren’t fond of the Professor, but they also don’t hurt him… just hold him up by his collar when they catch him and make him start the level over). The graphics are pleasing, and it’s nice to have to work things out using logic. You even have the ability to create custom levels, although I never played around with this option personally.