The Twisted, Taxing Puzzles of Space Miner Rochard

NEW YORK — John Rochard doesn’t care about silly things like physics. Like any good blue-collar worker, he’s too busy clocking in his hours and grinding out a living to worry about Newton’s laws or gravitational pull.
That’s your job.
In Rochard, a downloadable physics-based puzzle game available Tuesday on PlayStation 3, you’re tasked with guiding John through a series of gravity-based puzzles. After accidentally discovering an alien artifact, the space miner finds himself stranded on an asteroid, his co-workers missing. Also, there are laser beams and turrets and mean bad guys who want to kill him.
Rochard has a few weapons at his disposal, but most interesting is his gravity gun, which he can use to manipulate crates and switches, flinging them around like angry birds to knock down baddies and open new passages. He can also slow down gravity, making it easier to jump and swing around Rochard’s lovely two-dimensional stages.