I just finished reading the Joystiq hand-on preview of Scribblenauts. This game sounds downright amazing. The premise is that you face different levels with different problems to solve – get this man a drink, get past this shark, escape from a zombie apololypse. You know, read-world problems. But in order to do this, you write a word and the object appears. The amazing thing about Scribblenauts is that it’s got an absolutely huge dictionary of words, so whether you write wheelbarrow, raincloud, or kraken, it will know what you mean, and the object will appear. 

In their hands-on, the joystiq guys summoned a coffee shop to quench the guys thirst, dropped a hair dryer in the water to electrocute the shark, and used a time machine to escape from the zombies. This game sounds simply brilliant. I can’t wait to play it.