Jumper: Griffin's Story for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Yeah, a movie tie-in game for a terrible movie. That is exactly what I was looking for. And it's released by Brash, who has an amazing capacity to buy worthless licenses (their "big" license is a forthcoming Saw IV game). Jumper is about a group of teleporters who are fighting people who can't teleport.

I'll say this --- the control is not bad. Not great, but not bad. Since you can teleport constantly, you decide whether to appear and hit an enemy in the front, back, right, or left side. And the special kills are really cool. You teleport somebody into a car just before it gets crushed, you teleport another into a nuclear fusion reactor, you teleport another into a volcano. A really cool little idea. And these are the only things about the game that is not bad.

First off, the levels are linear. There is minimal exploration possible, not that you'd want to. And the level design is not dissimilar to a 3D0 game's layout. It funnels you right to the next area. And the teleport powers for non-fights are borderline superfluous. There are two moments where teleporting somewhere else is beneficial to you to advance the story.

The game looks like a PS1 attempt at a 3D platformer. The characters are laughably cobbled together and their animation is sketchy --- which makes the occasional slowdown all the more baffling. I mean, if a guy is going to have graphics to make the original Tomb Raider look decent in comparison, a smooth framerate just isn't too much to ask if you ask me.

One of the problems is that the game is insanely short. The first time through, when you're learning the game and finding stuff --- you'll take about 2 hours to complete it. The 2d time through, when you know how to play and are looking for few small things, it will take you less than 40 minutes to finish.

And, to demonstrate it's not my opinion on the lack quality --- the developers, who made Loony Tunes Acme Arsenal list that game on their site, but not this one. Ouch.