Carly Noir and the Experiments (video game)

Carly Noir and the Experiments is an American adventure-science-fiction video game, being the first installment of the homonymous video game series. It is developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, being released for PC, Mac, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS on May 17th, 2008.

Synopsis
Carly Noir has to help her boss regain several blueprints after all of them get lost while also having to outsmart an android army, using it with the help of various guns which she can collect.

Main

 * Carly Noir (voiced by Olivia Hack) - a teenage lab assistant who is forced to collect several blueprints and thwart a robot uprising.
 * Cybernetic Artificial Super Device (C.A.R.D.) (voiced by Tom Kenny) - an android who resembles a bracket as he helps Carly out whenever he can.

Supporting

 * Dr. Samara "Sam" Nucleus (voiced by Susan Eisenberg) - Carly's mentor and the owner of Nucleus Labs who wants to get her blueprints back.
 * Sara Noir (voiced by Ashley Johnson) - Carly's intelligent older sister who gave Carly C.A.R.D. and wants to help her sister when she may see a blueprint.
 * Tommy Yarks (voiced by Josh Keaton) - a junior engineer who is friends with Carly as he helps her when he notices a blueprint.
 * Gina Digger (voiced by Tara Strong) - a money-obsessed shopkeeper who has collected several blueprints and forces Carly to pay for them.
 * Georgia Digger (also voiced by Tara Strong) - a fighting-obsessed arena owner and Gina's sister who has also found several blueprints and forces Carly to test her strength in the arena to get blueprints.

Antagonists

 * Entropy (voiced by Nolan North) - a villainous android who wants to overthrow Doctor Nucleus as he has taken control of various androids in order to enslave humanity.
 * Eon (also voiced by Olivia Hack and by Steven Blum while disguised) - a robotic doppelgänger of Carly who has hid her identity and helps Entropy in his plans for domination.
 * The Drill King (voiced by Tom Kenny) - a towering robot with two gigantic drills who is designed to drill through any surface.
 * Foreman Man (voiced by Charlie Adler) - a cyborg foreman who runs the factory and wants to develop many machines.
 * Electron Mister (voiced by John DiMaggio) - a giant hulking robot who can command electricity and is obsessed with shocking things up.
 * Shock Rock (voiced by Grey DeLisle) - a flamboyant rockstar robot who can control electricity through her guitar.
 * Madame Ghoulash (voiced by Vanessa Marshall) - a genuine ghost who resides in the Haunted Basement as she is forced in a corporal form of various electronics.
 * Zombtron (voiced by David Kaye) - the very first experiment Nucleus made who is brought back from the dead in an undead form.
 * Doctor Inferno (voiced by Clancy Brown) - an insane cyborg scientist who is obsessed with fire to the point of creating a flame thrower for an arm.
 * Diablo (vocal effects by Dee Bradley Baker) - a gigantic robotic T-rex who can turn its body entirely on fire and breath fire.
 * Frostbyte (voiced by Jim Meskimen) - a vicious robot viking who has taken control of Subarctic Heights, using a giant dragon mech to fight.
 * Ingrid (voiced by Kath Soucie) - Frostbyte's second-in-command who is also a robot viking as she is able to use ice as a weapon.
 * Queen Ocean Blue (voiced by Elizabeth Daily) - the self-proclaimed queen of the Aquadome who is a massive mechanical mermaid who can command water to a powerful degree.
 * The Ultra-Kraken (vocal effects by Dee Bradley Baker) - Queen Ocean Blue's powerful pet who is a massive kraken with toxic-based tentacles.
 * Queen Sasha (voiced by Jennifer Hale) - an Amazonian cyborg who runs the jungles and is extremely cold to intruders.
 * Snap Roar (vocal effects by Dee Bradley Baker) - a deadly android tiger who is Queen Sasha's loyal pet.

Enemies

 * Demolishers - massive robots who carry two hammers and use them to smash.
 * Fly Girls - female androids who can fly and drop bombs down to destroy them.
 * Hydro Swordsmen - robotic swordsmen who use swords made out of water energy.
 * Fire Torchers - robots that wield a flamethrower and can use it to burn anything on its path.
 * Gunners - robots that wields two gun pistols and uses them to shoot their target.
 * Spikey Boys - mischievous spikey ball robots who like to roll over people and poke them.

Gameplay
The game plays as an open world platformer as each level/world is filled with a massive amount of blueprints which you can collect. The requirements to unlock them vary as some involve platforming challenges, some involve combat challenges and others involve doing favors for an NPC. The game also has a focus on weapons as you are allowed to equip any weapon in the game. Most weapons are dual purpose as they can both help in combat and in puzzles and or exploration. Each world also has four minibosses and two bosses which you can face in any order.

Worlds

 * Experimental Hub (hub world)
 * Biological Jungle
 * The Aquadome
 * Subarctic Heights
 * Burning Inferno
 * The Haunted Basement
 * Jolting Labs
 * Factory of Doom
 * Entropy's Chambers (final)

Items

 * Basic Blaster - a gun which can fire normal bullets at enemies and can fire buttons that are far away.
 * Claw Gun - a gun which can be used to pull enemies towards Carla or to either grapple onto surfaces or to pull objects in a direction.
 * Frostray - a gun which can fire blasts that can cause ice damage to enemies and can be used to freeze water.
 * Aqua Marauder - a gun which fires water which can both harm enemies and fill up tanks or take down fires.
 * Flameblaster - a gun which can be used to burn enemies, trees and ice.
 * The Neuropistol - a gun which can completely control an enemy's mind, with them being able to fight other enemies for you or to solve puzzles which need two people.
 * Electrogun - a gun that can be used to electrocute enemies and can also be used on things that require on electricity to run.
 * Force Blaster - a huge gun that shoots out a large amount of air that can throw enemies far away as well as obstacles that happen to stand in Carly's way.
 * Bombzooka - a gun that can shoot explosive objects at enemies, as well as breaking cracked objects.
 * Homingpistol - a gun which has bullets that can track down nearby enemies as well that can track down buttons that are not possible with any of the regular guns.
 * Chronoray - a gun that can freeze time, being used to both freeze enemies and moving objects in place temporarily.
 * Acid Blaster - a gun which fires concentrated acid, breaking both enemies and several obstacles/structures.