We might have the game available for more than one platform. The Grinch is currently available on these platforms:. The Grinch Dreamcast Manual English. Press ESC to close. OldGamesDownload February 19, 0. The Grinch. Seuss-ish narrator. OK, I'm done. What follows is a joyless movie tie-in, licensing and marketing debacle that fails to offer anything worth playing.
Sorry fellas, but going through a patronizing series of "pull the switch, let the dog walk through the hole to get the key to the one door in the room" sub-Spyro exercises found in the training level pretty much gives you the gist of this game. Too bad this is a title that unwitting parents will buy for children who want more Grinch until the movie comes home on video. The Grinch who stole Christmas indeed. Well, one thing's for sure, that whole joke about movie-to-game conversions certainly conies into play here.
This game sucks. The game-play isn't horrible but I can't help but feel I've played this basic premise a few times before Spyro or Crash anyone? And then there's the graphics. To say this game has first-generation visuals would be too kind: Pop-up and other glitches run rampant for no obvious reason. Grinch is the perfect example of a bad movie tie-in, and should be avoided completely unless you're too young to care.
Hell, it should be avoided even then. Browse games Game Portals. The game was released shortly after the film hit theaters. On the top of Mt. Crumpit, his eye pressed to the telescope, the Grinch observes Whoville. He mumbles something that his dog Max hardly perceives: 'I've got it! I have a great idea! This year, the Whos will pay!
Build gadgets from blueprints. So you can't sneak past guards inside buildings that way and you also can't use any of the Grinch's inventions. Inventions, you ask? Indeed, because the Grinch is not only mean and cunning but has a real talent for inventing things.
By gathering the blueprints scattered around Whoville you can creative a variety of items, including binoculars, a mini helicopter and -- by far the best invention in the game -- the Egg Bazooka. This latter item, the sort of things you hope kids will never get their hands on, can only be used when standing still, much like a real bazooka, but hurls rotten eggs towards targets allowing you to egg windows, Whos, and even solve the odd puzzle.
You can even take control of the Grinch's dog Max to enter new areas and flip switches to enable the Grinch to carry on through. The Grinch's off-beat strangeness ensures the game is both in the spirit of the original story and also keeps you playing to see just what challenges you're going to run into next.
In terms of its difficulty, The Grinch is a bit of an oddity. Its theme would suggest it was aimed at young kids, and while it's very hard to get the Grinch killed during the early stages of the game, a fair amount of precise sneaking, platform hopping, and puzzling is required. It would appear that the game is in fact aimed more at adult or teenaged gamers who read the story when they were young - or even when they were older, as Dr Seuss' books are so strangely quirky, they tend to have a wider appeal than most kids books.
But is the game any good? In a word, yes. It perfectly captures the atmosphere of the original book without tearing the plot to pieces, and the characters themselves look the part despite not being hand drawn - even the Grinch walks the way you'd imagine him too. As a game in its own right, The Grinch isn't exactly revolutionary. If it weren't for the license and theme, it'd be rather average.
That said, it's challenging and strangely enjoyable - you have so much fun running around just smashing presents and laying into the Whos' Christmas celebrations that before you know it, you've been playing for a good two hours. Of course, that's if you like doing that sort of thing; if you're the kind of person who buys Cliff Richard records and every damn Christmas album that comes out, or didn't like Dr Seuss's books, this may not be to your liking.
But for normal, right-minded people The Grinch is well worth checking out. Tatsuya7 0 point. Breezy 1 point.
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