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SCHOOL DAZE: Be the new kid in class with this addictive game
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Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron
From the Silicon Valley-based Purple Moon comes Rockett’s New School . If you can get past the Lip Smacker tie-ins and the annoyingly reductive box copy ("Deep friendships. Love of nature…it’s what girls are all about"), the game itself is thoughtfully addictive stuff. The player follows the new kid in school as she makes friends, deals with dilemmas, and snoops through other kids’ lockers (yeah, that part gave me pause, too). You help Rockett decide how to respond to a given situation, and to the game’s credit, there often isn’t one "right" answer. To its discredit, the highest-profile black character is a stereotyped "girlfrien'" -- and does the Asian kid have to be a grade-grinding chess whiz?
Posted Jan 27, 1998
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