The story of De Blob is fairly simple. A race of evil aliens come to a friendly planet and suck all the color out of it, leaving it all white and shades of gray. As one of the remaining unaffected blob-like denizens of the planet, it is up to you to restore the world to its full color capacity. This goal is achieved by rolling your little blob around the world and picking up color bottles. Once you have picked up a color, simply touching an object will turn it that color and give you some points. You can also mix your colors for some different effects. For instance, say you are yellow and want to change to orange. Simply roll over a red bottle and, voila, you are now orange. Rolling over the red bottle again will revert you to red.

Each area of town you go to has a different challenge. Some require you to paint everything the same color, while others have you using as many different colors as possible. Large green areas denote side quests that can be taken on and there are many spread out in the game's large levels. There are also quite a few time challenges that have you trying to paint a certain area of town or group of buildings in the allotted time. Multiplayer will support up to four players, but unfortunately, online play will not be available.

De Blob was developed for the Wii and, as you can imagine, it makes much use of the Wii remote's motion sensors and the nunchuck. Flicking the remote will cause your colorful little blob to jump up in the air and with the right movements you can get quite the speed going. Soon you will be bouncing off of buildings and into the sides of other buildings, splashing paint all over the place as you go.

Of all the Wii titles shown at the event, this was my personal favorite and I found myself inadvertently standing there playing, while the lines formed behind me. Finally, after some rather cranky fellow journalists started grumbling I decided it might be best to move on.

If you haven't yet checked out De Blob and you are a fan of quirky games, do yourself a favor and at least peruse the small gallery of screenshots below. This will definitely be a Wii title well worth picking up.