Sentences with phrase «clever gimmick»

Which ones deliver on their claims and which products are just clever gimmicks, or fleeting trends?

The reviews have been mostly enthusiastic as well, largely complimenting how the film manages to work mostly as a whole in spite of its distractingly clever gimmick.

Lost in Shadow had a very clever gimmick; your avatar is a disembodied shadow that can only travel along the shadows of other objects.

Keith Sonnier's «The European» seems to own that reality without resorting to size or clever gimmicks as a self - justification.

More than just clever gimmicks, the poems have a depth that invite imaginative wandering, while the spare illustrations add quirky appeal without distracting from the inventively arranged type.

While it was not as colorful as Starbucks» Unicorn Frappuccino, it too was built on a clever gimmick.

The lesson: A clever gimmick can't make up for a poor product.

You may capture consumers» attention and make an initial sale with a clever gimmick.

The plucky and well - acted, if not always shiver - inducing, «Lights Out» — from first - time feature director David F. Sandberg, building on his popular viral short, and fright impresario James Wan («The Conjuring 2»)-- works a clever gimmick that seems tailor - made for the visual particulars of movies: a terrorizing figure one can only detect when there's no illumination.

The life bars make for a clever gimmick.

It's a clever gimmick and the acting's good, but other than that, «Unfriended» tells a same - old same - old story about the secrets and betrayals of teen friendships and romance.

The digging aspect of the game isn't just a clever gimmick for creating paths, though.

Just because someone is riding a hot genre or running a clever gimmick does not mean they will still have a career two or five years from now.

And Minit is just so much more than a clever gimmick.

Nintendo usually includes some clever gimmick when they send their games out for review or to interest people in the product.

As someone who has also worked closely with marketing, one of the the more amusing aspects of the job was either devising a clever gimmick or seeing how other companies delivered their products to other industry people or retailers.

It's a clever gimmick that takes great inspiration from Lemmings, providing a refreshingly different spin from its Game Boy and Game Boy Advance predecessors.

Befriending enemies and merging powers are clever gimmicks that are thoughtfully used throughout each level.

So long as these games have some exotic visual presentation or clever gimmick that entertains out of sheer novelty for a couple of hours, we're good to go.

Game Pick: «Second Person Shooter Zato» (himo, browser) «Second Person Shooter Zato is a 3D arcade shooter that presents a clever gimmick - you can only look at your surroundings from an enemy's point of view.

As it stands, the rear surround mode is essentially a clever gimmick.