Post by Zenks Renway on Apr 15, 2009 9:18:33 GMT
You may have seen my previous review on Shrek Fairytale Freakdown that there's a Shrek game worse than that. And this is it. Developed by the Code Monkeys, the same butt-munchers who made those low-budget PS1 Disney-themed 'games', and Simpsons Skateboarding for the PS2. Dreamworks must've had a gun pointed to their face when they gave the licensing rights to these idiots. There's virtually nothing good about this game. At all.
Gameplay:
Shrek Treasure Hunt is what you'd get if you take Action 52, recreate it in 3D, and slap on a movie license. Your main objective is to scour the land looking for the food and cutlery for a PICNIC. Why a picnic?? Not even trying to get back your shortcake in Kirby Mouse Attack is that retarded. The scouring part probably would not be that bad, but the frame-rate's so low (literally around 5-10 frames per second)that the game is almost unplayable. Enemies around the game will attack Shrek, but there's virtually no point because Shrek can't die and neither can said enemies. Trying to jump across platforms is a nightmare.
You'll find many items, all of which give annoying chimes upon collecting them, which will unlock many mini-games that are BARELY playable due to the fact that the game was very poorly programmed. Fishing, for example, is ruined mainly by the fact that leaving the game idle would make Shrek scratch his arse. An opportunity to catch a fish at this point will fall flat however, because for some reason you have to wait for the butt-scratching to end before you can regain control of him. Then there's the one where you have to play DDR to a game of tug-o-war (probably the only minigame to be vaguely based off the movie). The one where you have to make leap of faith after leap of faith with the unresponsive controls, and the one where you have to hurl tomatoes (a VERY delayed action) at knights. How fab, these minigames are not based off the movie in any way or form, meaning that this game is potential gone to waste.
Then again, this game could be good for Shrek fans (of which aren't many) but this game isn't even worthy of that, mainly due to the fact that virtually none of the characters from the movie are in the game, which makes me wonder if this ever was meant to be a Shrek game.
Once again, the frame-rate thing, I seriously can't get over that. This game was released in 2001, right??? For a last-generation PS1 game to have this problem is impossible to comprehend.
The music sucks, that's all I'm gonna say on that part of the game. Let's just say that High School Musical sounds better than this game, which is saying something when I give a modern Disney film the smallest bit of credit. One annoying glitch is that a song ends and other one begins, the song stops playing after just 2 seconds and yet another song starts playing.
Looking at the graphics in this game makes me feel like watching an artist's impression of a bowel movement. The graphics are just plain crap. Flickering textures, garish environments and draw distance that would make Ninjabread Man feel proud are but some of the many things I could say about how crap the graphics are, but I could make a whole Wikipedia article off of it as there's so many problems, but I don't want to.
After beating all the mini-games you can now get 30 keys from areas previously unaccessible, not only a complete rip-off of Metroid but also it makes you have to scour the land AGAIN, which even for the first time is incredibly tedious. After getting all the keys, you must do one final mini-game. A boss, maybe? No. You simply jump blindly around a castle to find seven pieces of armor (I couldn't call it armor, I've seen cosplayers with more convincing armors) and thus you finally get screwed over with a simple 'The End' screen.
Most people consider ET to be the worst movie-based game ever, but this game is highly under-rated in terms of crappiness. Had I have gotten the chance, I would gladly reach for a shotgun and blast off the head of every person involved in the development of this game, for no sane people other than Titus (*coughSuperman64cough) could take a license and turn it into something worthy of balancing the chair in your house. You know, the one with the wonky leg.
The Moral: There is no God, and this game proves it.
Gameplay: What gameplay?/10
Graphics: Even I can do better graphics./10
Sound: I think I just went deaf./10
Appeal: I couldn't stand the first millisecond of this dinkwad./10
Final score: Kill the developers of this game if you get the chance%
Gameplay:
Shrek Treasure Hunt is what you'd get if you take Action 52, recreate it in 3D, and slap on a movie license. Your main objective is to scour the land looking for the food and cutlery for a PICNIC. Why a picnic?? Not even trying to get back your shortcake in Kirby Mouse Attack is that retarded. The scouring part probably would not be that bad, but the frame-rate's so low (literally around 5-10 frames per second)that the game is almost unplayable. Enemies around the game will attack Shrek, but there's virtually no point because Shrek can't die and neither can said enemies. Trying to jump across platforms is a nightmare.
You'll find many items, all of which give annoying chimes upon collecting them, which will unlock many mini-games that are BARELY playable due to the fact that the game was very poorly programmed. Fishing, for example, is ruined mainly by the fact that leaving the game idle would make Shrek scratch his arse. An opportunity to catch a fish at this point will fall flat however, because for some reason you have to wait for the butt-scratching to end before you can regain control of him. Then there's the one where you have to play DDR to a game of tug-o-war (probably the only minigame to be vaguely based off the movie). The one where you have to make leap of faith after leap of faith with the unresponsive controls, and the one where you have to hurl tomatoes (a VERY delayed action) at knights. How fab, these minigames are not based off the movie in any way or form, meaning that this game is potential gone to waste.
Then again, this game could be good for Shrek fans (of which aren't many) but this game isn't even worthy of that, mainly due to the fact that virtually none of the characters from the movie are in the game, which makes me wonder if this ever was meant to be a Shrek game.
Once again, the frame-rate thing, I seriously can't get over that. This game was released in 2001, right??? For a last-generation PS1 game to have this problem is impossible to comprehend.
The music sucks, that's all I'm gonna say on that part of the game. Let's just say that High School Musical sounds better than this game, which is saying something when I give a modern Disney film the smallest bit of credit. One annoying glitch is that a song ends and other one begins, the song stops playing after just 2 seconds and yet another song starts playing.
Looking at the graphics in this game makes me feel like watching an artist's impression of a bowel movement. The graphics are just plain crap. Flickering textures, garish environments and draw distance that would make Ninjabread Man feel proud are but some of the many things I could say about how crap the graphics are, but I could make a whole Wikipedia article off of it as there's so many problems, but I don't want to.
After beating all the mini-games you can now get 30 keys from areas previously unaccessible, not only a complete rip-off of Metroid but also it makes you have to scour the land AGAIN, which even for the first time is incredibly tedious. After getting all the keys, you must do one final mini-game. A boss, maybe? No. You simply jump blindly around a castle to find seven pieces of armor (I couldn't call it armor, I've seen cosplayers with more convincing armors) and thus you finally get screwed over with a simple 'The End' screen.
Most people consider ET to be the worst movie-based game ever, but this game is highly under-rated in terms of crappiness. Had I have gotten the chance, I would gladly reach for a shotgun and blast off the head of every person involved in the development of this game, for no sane people other than Titus (*coughSuperman64cough) could take a license and turn it into something worthy of balancing the chair in your house. You know, the one with the wonky leg.
The Moral: There is no God, and this game proves it.
Gameplay: What gameplay?/10
Graphics: Even I can do better graphics./10
Sound: I think I just went deaf./10
Appeal: I couldn't stand the first millisecond of this dinkwad./10
Final score: Kill the developers of this game if you get the chance%
