Your Score. Rate this:. Log in to finish rating DreamWorks Monsters vs. Share this? Aliens puts the fate of the planet in players' hands, to save the world as only a monster can. Plus, team up with the brilliant but insect-headed Dr.
Cockroach, Ph. Unleash unique powers as all your favorite monsters from the film - The Missing Link: Bash, bounce, swing, tail whip, and climb as this prehistoric brawler! B: Ooze through cracks, stick to ceilings, and absorb and spit out enemies as this gooey blob!
Ginormica: Tower over the landscape, test your strength, and use cars as roller-skates as this battling behemoth. Play as a team in co-op mode - A second player can pick up a controller and drop in at anytime as Dr. Cockroach Ph. As the most brilliant scientist in the world, players can blast apart robots, toss away enemies, plus grab hard-to-reach upgrades and other rewards. Buy on. Critic Reviews.
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Aliens is a solid videogame adaptation from the movie. Maybe it's because the development studio behind it, Griptonite, was more than capable of making a solid game, as they proved with the vastly superior DS version of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
Clearly Monsters vs. Aliens piggybacks off the engine used for Spidey's outing I could even swear some of the moves The Missing Link uses were lifted straight from ol' Webhead's outing , but whatever polish and charm that game had was siphoned off in favor of just pumping out another licensed pile o' crap. The entire game can be tackled in one sitting, blazed through in just a few hours give or take depending on how stumped you get by a difficulty spike in some of Dr.
Cockroach's puzzles mid-game. By "blazed through," I'm talking about unlocking every health, attack and special power upgrade for Ginormica, The Missing Link and B. Cockroach's puzzles. This is literally the kind of game you give to a kid to shut them up for a few hours, and depending on their age may actually count as a form of child abuse in some countries.
Let's break down each of the different modes. For Ginormica, there are a couple of side-scrolling bits that require some pretty precise platform jumping and a few more levels where the touch screen is used to clumsily try to slide her left and right while scooping up Monster DNA the game's unlockables currency. The Missing Link feels pulled right from the Spidey games right down to his ability to stick to walls, yet the combat is as trite and boring as you can get, involving only smacking around some robots with basic combat and spitting by blowing into the mic.
I realize I've just sort of nonchalantly rattled off the names of the characters from the big screen flick without actually introducing them or explaining their purpose, but that's in keeping with the game, which ham-fists a "story" into things. Again, had Griptonite not already proven they were capable of much, much more, I probably wouldn't be so harsh, but they can , and every part of the game feels slapped together just to satisfy the requisite SKU quota for Activision's Dreamworks CG Animated Kids Flick: The Videogame.
This extends right down to the sloppy cutscenes though they're at least voiced well enough. All of the game's little bits of clunkiness, frustration and boredom comes to a head in the game's final battles. The Missing Link is forced to fight a trio of enemy waves without a health recharge without much in the way of cover or means of retreating; B.
None of these sections is fun, much less feeling like a culmination of the events prior. These inconsistencies extend to the aforementioned puzzle bits for Dr. With tons of unlockables and extras, Monsters vs.
Aliens is a solid enough platformer that it should appeal to fans of the movie. Families can talk about whether it was fair to keep the monsters locked up just because they were different? What might be like to be like Susan and be 49 feet, 11 inches tall? What kinds of things would you do that you can't do now, and what daily tasks would be much more difficult?
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