In this game however, you just sort of pop things. Ripping things apart piece by piece or swallowing them whole to a chorus of ocean-muffled screams is just so sadistically fun. At least not if you've been playing Jaws and enjoying the visceral and brutal animations and combat. Which is where my problem lies with this game, eating stuff just isn't that fun. I forgot how fun it was to devour people in that game. I think that was a mistake though, I spent almost 2 weeks playing jaws unleashed before this came out and had an absolute blast. I'm sure lots of you were fans of the game jaws unleashed like me and maybe some of you also replayed that game in anticipation like I did. I think it's overpriced but it's still fun and I love the environments and the overall theme, the TV documentary style story is awesome but the gameplay feels really shallow and disappointing in my opinion. Sadly, much of the novelty wore off soon after and the rest of the game left me, just like many in the film, dead in the water.It's not a bad game. However, the brilliant John Williams theme tune is present and correct, some of the underwater scenes can look quite pretty and the first 30 minutes had me in stitches after I discovered that I could jump onto land, dismember people in different ways and that the panicked swimmers sound a bit like Futurama's Dr Zoidberg. Things don't seem to be looking up for our 25ft fishy friend though, as the game is plagued by a number of issues, such as a dodgy camera, unwieldy controls, a number of bugs and some poor console graphics. You play as the great white shark who's yet again returned to terrorise the inhabitants of Amity Island, thus equating to a series of stages in which you must hunt and be hunted by the residents of the island, returning back to the relative safety of the ocean between missions. Instead, it's the Spielberg-created, dead-eyed, fishy-breathed monster of the 70s, the one single-handedly responsible for making me afraid of going in the swimming pool.ĭeveloped by Appaloosa Interactive (the former developers of Sega classic Ecco The Dolphin), things follow a much darker path here than in the hippy favourite, Ecco. And it's not a floating turd either no, no, that would be on the surface. Sometimes these glitches can be funny, like once I got Jaws stuck between a rock and he started freaking out! Other times, it can be so bad you have to restart the game! It has a very “budget” feel to it, like they did not have quite enough money to fully test this thing before they released it. You thought I was going to say blood, didn’t you? Well, this game does have a lot of blood, but it is also glitchy as hell. It is not the kind of game you are going to play for hours on end, but in short bursts, it can be fun. There is not much variety to the game at all, but you do have a bit of an open world where you can swim around just killing for fun. Most of these missions are about eating someone/something or destroying something. Does it take a while to get the hang of the controls? Yes, it does, but Jaws Unleashed is kind of fun once you get the hang of controlling a massive great white shark! Many people will say that this game is unplayable, but that is not true. There is a tutorial at the start of the game and that is a good thing. The thing is, it kind of adds to the game's charm if I am being honest. It is the human characters that look super weird and low quality. The underwater world is not bad at all with shipwrecks, reefs, and plenty of aquatic life to look at and eat. At the time of release, Jaws Unleashed was a budget game and the visuals have a budget look to them that is for sure. The presentation of the game is a very mixed bag.
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