Tuesday, 26 May Adventure Games Games. Shrek 2 The Game, is a cross-platform video game created by Luxoflux. In this game the player has to control the main character of game and nine of his friends, and travel through 11 levels. There are hardly any puzzles and those that exist are of the 'find item or switch' or 'kill all enemies' variety.
Throughout the game, Shrek and company collect coins. These can be used to purchase potions, which can turn your foes into frogs, make them fall asleep, stop them with stench, shrink them, or transform them into friends. These can also be used to make you invisible to enemy eyes. But, you never have to use them. It's actually easier to just punch enemies to death.
Besides for physical appearance and movement speed, there is no real difference between playable characters except Puss can climb poles and Donkey can kick stuff. Textures are very bland and stretched. Animations are occasionally awkward did you know horses could strafe? Shrek and company will often pull themselves up on invisible ledges or fail to grab pipes or zip lines.
Clipping is also a problem. The camera will make you want to vomit. While the camera is fairly standard it's connected to your mouse movement , it suffers from a nausea-inducing delay. The voice acting is atrocious -- characters barely resemble their movie counterparts.
Delivery is extremely stilted. The dialogue is poorly written and doesn't even sound like what the characters would say. The jolly green giant Shrek has had a rather turbulent videogame career.
His original debut on consoles in late was an uninspired action adventure title based on DreamWorks' parody of all things Disney. Shrek suffered from the same gaping pit that traps so many movie-to-game licenses -- it was rushed to coincide with the movie, without any thought to content or playability.
However, as it is with all popular franchises these days, Shrek recently spawned a sequel in the form of Shrek 2. Hoping to shake the first videogame's bad image, Activision assigned Luxoflux True Crime to the task of crafting the new Shrek experience.
The end product is a surprisingly fun and decent action adventure game -- at least on consoles. You can read about it right here. Don't be fooled. The PC title has nothing in common with its console brethren besides for similar storyline elements and characters.
Gone is the multiple character dynamic, the multiplayer mode, decent production values, interesting if not particularly hard puzzles, humorous mini-games, and most things that you'd associate with Shrek 2. Instead, PC gamers have a game that belongs in Shrek's swamp rather than an optical drive.
Shrek 2 loosely follows the plot of the film. However, due to Shrek's ogre-ish nature, a family fights ensues. It's up to Shrek to find a happy ending for his bride. The game presents a very brief outline of the movie's story and chooses to take a few liberties with events and locals as one would expect.
Theoretically designed as a children's title, Shrek 2 isn't very complex. There's nothing terribly new here, but there's an undeniable polish in the gameplay that makes Shrek 2 a good deal of fun. The adventure never feels mundane either since the gameplay is often mixed up, with levels switching from basic platform gameplay elements to a diverse array of mini-games on the fly. And of course, if the fairy tale laden trek gets a bit lonely, then you can plug in a multi-tap and traverse the world of Shrek with three other friends.
But if there's a downer to be found in Shrek 2 , it lies in the fact that while it's an enjoyable romp, it's also a fairly short romp that's easily beatable as well. Granted, Shrek 2 is aimed at kids, but even a child's developing motor skill shouldn't have much trouble plowing through the game in less than a rental period. If Shrek's trek weren't such a short one, then Shrek 2 would get the full recommendations, but it's hard to justify putting down 50 bucks for a game that's beatable in a rental period.
Subtitles English CC. Released year Age rating Parental guidance. Duration 1 h 32 min. Genres Animation Comedy Family.
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