Cloning Clyde is a 3D side-scrolling adventure. As Clyde, or one of his clones, work your way through the levels of the nefarious Dupliclone, Inc. building. It houses bizarre simulated environments created specifically to accommodate their unconventional cloning experiments. Have fun utilizing the many clones running amok inside Dupliclone, as you try to free yourself…or should we say yourselves. Be careful of the traps set by the sinister corporation, and watch out for mutant clones! Get even more inventive and you can use the cloning technology to combine the Clyde clones with some of your co-inhabitants to make mutant Chicken-Clydes, Frog-Clydes, Ape-Clydes and more. Many of the mutant Clydes have special abilities that can help you to escape from the evil Dupliclone, Inc.
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Now that I think of it, kind of feels like an overdeveloped flash game. Considering the year was 2006, this would have FUCKED as a flash game.
This was one of my favorite games when I was a kid, I'm talking like 5 years old. We had an Xbox 360 and just the demo for this game. I can't tell you why, but I replayed that demo endlessly. I loved it so much. I never was able to play the full game but that didn't matter to me.
Fast forward to now, randomly stumbling across this game on the Xbox store. I'm honestly baffled that this game is still available at all given how it was clearly only made just to throw something small onto Xbox Live Arcade back in the day. I was so surprised and the nostalgia immediately hit me like a truck.
So I finally played the game for the first time. And yeah it's exactly what I expected it to be, just a simple puzzle game with dumb jokes, which never failed to make me smile.
There's really not much to it, solve simple puzzles by either cloning yourself, mutating into an animal, or a combination of both. Find the exit as quickly as possible while also trying to help every clone escape. That's really about it. That's what I love about it though, it's not trying to do anything too crazy, it just delivers a silly little experience that never overstays its welcome.
There's also a versus mode which is very basic but a decent distraction, and cheats which completely change your character model, which I love so much. You never see that kind of thing nowadays.
The game took me barely any time at all to finish but for what it is, I really enjoyed it! I'm glad I took this nostalgia trip.