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Fair at best. Quickly made game
posted by dfloss721 (GRAYSLAKE, IL) Jun 16, 2010
Member since Jun 2007
This game is what you'd expect from a kiddie game, especially one based off a cartoon movie. It's as simple as it gets, but is still pretty fun for kids to play. The donkey is hilarious as always, but the voice acting for Shrek seemed way off. If you're looking for achievement points, this one ranks maybe a 4/10 difficulty for 1000G, and will take you anywhere from 4-10 hours, depending on how much stuff you collect the first time around. It's a definite rent, play for 5 hours, throw back in mail and don't tell your friends you just played Shrek. Good thing xbox lets you hide your online status!
You basically walk through levels defeating small enemies as Shrek and the little cat guy with the fencing sword. You push X to attack, B for power attack and Y for some finishing moves. It's VERY basic, but fun enough to mix up the combos and keep it interesting....for 20 minutes. The finishing move slow-mo part is really annoying and repetitive, and once I got the achievement for that, I button mashed X the entire game and never died on a single level.
You can beat this game without dying one time if you want, but sometimes the camera angles are very annoying and you can't tell your depth or angle whatsoever. This may get you killed a few times. Graphics could be for Gamecube here, and it's not a very long game. Beat some levels, get some little collectibles, and unlock like 4 costumes. Wow, I'm done. And did I really just write a review for Shrek the Third??? I'm not writing my gamertag at the end of this one.
You basically walk through levels defeating small enemies as Shrek and the little cat guy with the fencing sword. You push X to attack, B for power attack and Y for some finishing moves. It's VERY basic, but fun enough to mix up the combos and keep it interesting....for 20 minutes. The finishing move slow-mo part is really annoying and repetitive, and once I got the achievement for that, I button mashed X the entire game and never died on a single level.
You can beat this game without dying one time if you want, but sometimes the camera angles are very annoying and you can't tell your depth or angle whatsoever. This may get you killed a few times. Graphics could be for Gamecube here, and it's not a very long game. Beat some levels, get some little collectibles, and unlock like 4 costumes. Wow, I'm done. And did I really just write a review for Shrek the Third??? I'm not writing my gamertag at the end of this one.
Horrible Game for a Good Movie
posted by DaMikeSC (COLUMBIA, SC) Jan 20, 2008
Member since Jul 2007
I'm willing to try most games. I even find some enjoyment in most of them.
This, however, was horrible. Top to bottom. Some of the humor was decent (Shrek 3 is my favorite film of the bunch), but the play was horrible. It is a button-masher par excellence. All you do is mash buttons constantly. Words fail to describe how tedious it is. You get to be Shrek, Puss in Boots, Donkey, Fiona, Arthur, and Sleeping Beauty and all of them control fairly similarly. Sure, Shrek is much stronger than all the others --- but the basics control are somewhat yawn-inducing.
Please don't even get me started on the animation. This game is blatantly a port of a previous gen title --- and the animation STILL is slow. Puss in Boots animation is pretty apparently slow as all get out. Everything just drags. Slowdown in a game with the visual firepower to nearly poke holes in wet paper is just baffling. OK, we can pull off CoD 4 with no real slowdown --- but a basic platformer with mediocre visuals is just too taxing for the 360?
They seek to re-tell the story of the movie, except without nearly the level of quality. I know, it's a movie tie-in --- but I played Harry Potter and it actually made the world seem alive. Shrek makes the world feel like a drowned rat that has commenced to smelling funny. This would be worse than Transformers if not that some parts of the game are borderline amusing.
This game really isn't worth a rental. And don't think "Well, it's an easy 1000 points" because while the game, admittedly, is easy enough that babies in the womb can pull off a win in utero --- the Achievements are glitchy as can be. Don't even deal with the idiocy of having to play the entire game on difficulties that you have to unlock --- but where you can't immediately re-start the game, it is a bit of a challenge.
Do not play it. Do not rent it. If you own it, just chalk it up to inexperience and never admit you paid money for it. If you stole it, please seek professional help.
This, however, was horrible. Top to bottom. Some of the humor was decent (Shrek 3 is my favorite film of the bunch), but the play was horrible. It is a button-masher par excellence. All you do is mash buttons constantly. Words fail to describe how tedious it is. You get to be Shrek, Puss in Boots, Donkey, Fiona, Arthur, and Sleeping Beauty and all of them control fairly similarly. Sure, Shrek is much stronger than all the others --- but the basics control are somewhat yawn-inducing.
Please don't even get me started on the animation. This game is blatantly a port of a previous gen title --- and the animation STILL is slow. Puss in Boots animation is pretty apparently slow as all get out. Everything just drags. Slowdown in a game with the visual firepower to nearly poke holes in wet paper is just baffling. OK, we can pull off CoD 4 with no real slowdown --- but a basic platformer with mediocre visuals is just too taxing for the 360?
They seek to re-tell the story of the movie, except without nearly the level of quality. I know, it's a movie tie-in --- but I played Harry Potter and it actually made the world seem alive. Shrek makes the world feel like a drowned rat that has commenced to smelling funny. This would be worse than Transformers if not that some parts of the game are borderline amusing.
This game really isn't worth a rental. And don't think "Well, it's an easy 1000 points" because while the game, admittedly, is easy enough that babies in the womb can pull off a win in utero --- the Achievements are glitchy as can be. Don't even deal with the idiocy of having to play the entire game on difficulties that you have to unlock --- but where you can't immediately re-start the game, it is a bit of a challenge.
Do not play it. Do not rent it. If you own it, just chalk it up to inexperience and never admit you paid money for it. If you stole it, please seek professional help.
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