PC User Reviews

The game has a soul, fab music, funny characters, soso puzzles and one of the best outros ****. It's better than the first part and it's such a shame that TTG did not make a full season.

Mercifully not as weak as its predecessor Out From Boneville, but that isn't saying much. The Great Cow Race suffers from the same voice acting problems as the first game, and if anything, worsens them by having even more characters and dialogue to ham-fistedly fumble. The character models still look wrong, the graphics are still out of date for their time, and the puzzles are still tedious; the only thing that helps The Great Cow Race is the strength of the material it's drawing on, because it's just so much harder to improperly execute an inherently silly concept like a cow race compared to a journey through a fresh new land. This is subject to the same "infant developer grace period" phenomenon I mentioned in my review of the first Bone game, but considering what Telltale's put out since then, I'd be surprised if the Bone games aren't at the same "secret shame" level as Howard the Duck is for George Lucas. Jeff Smith's graphic novel deserves better.