Bugdom

by Take 2

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004ZB7E
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 7, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,021 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Bugdom was once a peaceful place ruled by the Rollie Pollies and the Lady Bugs, but not long ago the Bugdom was overthrown by the clan of the Fire Ants. After recruiting other bugs to help fight for them, they captured all of the Lady Bugs and are holding them prisoner. The leader of the Fire Ants, the new king of the Bugdom, is King Thorax. Once he is defeated, the Bugdom will return to the peaceful place it used to be. You are Rollie McFly, the only remaining bug capable of saving the Lady Bugs and restoring peace to the Bugdom. Rollie has been hiding in the lawn area of the Bugdom and will need to travel far to get to the Ant Hill, where the battle with King Thorax must take place. There will be water to cross, bugs to ride, and plenty of enemy forces to defeat, but once the Fire Ants and King Thorax have been defeated, you will become the new ruler of the Bugdom and peace will be restored. Bugdom offers real-time 3-D action, more than 23 different bugs and enemies, and 10 exciting levels. Swim, jump, ride bugs, and swing on ropes. Go into beehives and anthills. Bugdom also offers an incredible CD-quality soundtrack, and it is suitable for all ages.

Customer Reviews

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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars To the tune of Gilligan's Island, November 27, 2000

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TigerPomme "tigerpomme" (CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bugdom (CD-ROM)

(To the tune of Gilligan's Island)

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful install,

That started from this online store on the world wide web.

I was a mighty PC guru, The wife was anxious and unsure.

One PC guru set out for a six hour install. A six hour install . . .

Needless to say this was one wicked install. I build my own PC's from scratch and people have a motto that they tell me to stick to, "If it 'ain't' broke, don't fix it." Unfortunately, I try not to listen to every one else. The problem is NOT with the game itself but with the OpenGL (OGL) drivers that are installed when GLSetup is installed. In theory, GLSetup should NOT be run if you have the latest drivers from the company. However, I did not have the updated drivers so naturally I ran GLSetup. That's when all Hell basically broke loose.

Why am I talking about OpenGL? Because Bugdom is an OpenGL only game. Therefor it will only run correctly with the latest drivers and at least DirectX 7.0. (Don't ask, I don't know why.) Granted the graphics aren't exactly as smooth as that of the "gasp!" Mac version but it is very very cute. The story is pretty basic, You play as a potato bug looking thing who calls himself Rollie McFly to try and save the Princess Lady Bug from the Evil King Thorax. Really kind of typical and over played in numerous other games, oh well. The graphics are very well done eliciting a very loud "How cute!" from my girlfriend and a "I wanna play! I wanna play!" from some shrimp I've never seen before in the house at the time. I did notice that the "options" menu contains NONE of the traditional options like sound/music volume, screen resolution, detail level and what not. The Window-like buttons are also VERY subtle, It's very difficult to see if the buttons in the sub menus are pressed in or not. I guess it qualifies as a "Blooper" in Jeff Johnson's eyes. Another unsual thing I did notice, the PC that had all of the problems had a ATI Rage Fury, which uses the ATI 128 chipset. Last I checked, this is part of the same family of 128 Pro's that the iMac and other apple thingies use. Also uses the same set of drivers as the 1280 Pro, How odd.

As far as installation goes, I certainly hope that Take2 does a double take on the installation software. There are several notes to take during the installation.

First. Check the BOIS/CMOS if you have a motherboard with an AGP style video card. It is crucial that you set the aperture size correctly. In my case it was 64 before it became stable.

And Second. Get all of the latest drivers for your hardware, not least of all the video card.

Sad to say this game will not run otherwise. But why the four stars? You may ask. Well, like I said I'm a PC Guru, I don't consider twisting a PC to my whim and will a problem but a challenge instead. If you can get past the BS that this game gives you during installation, You or your children will certainly enjoy the game. It certainly is a nice game to get away from the blood and gore that games like American McGee's Alice or Quake III offers. Besides, I'm not allowed to play the bloody games when the shrimp is in the house.

Tigerpomme

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME GAME . . ., November 16, 2001

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Sword Queen (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bugdom (CD-ROM)

The first time I played Bugdom was on my school's computer in the library. I was immediately taken with the game's plot line and graphics and music. Since then, I've become obessessed with it! It's one of my favorite games, and often times, I stay after school just to play it, since at lunch there isn't much time. This is one of my favorite games, ever. I would recommend it to anyone! The graphics are breathtaking with a look to them that is so real, the first time I saw the tarantulas, I was freaked out a little, as I am when I see a real one. The levels are quite hard, especially when you don't know the cheat codes--I couldn't beat it without them! I give this game five stars for everything it contains!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bugdom is full of bugs, November 19, 2000

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Simon Prosser (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bugdom (CD-ROM)

My 7 year old has been playing Bugdom at school on iMacs and loves it, so we bought the Windows version.

My computer is 6 months old, AMD Athlon 700MHz with a 32 MB AGP Video Card yet Bugdom crashes continually. When we do get a screen, the icons are upside and the mouse fades in and out. Tried to contact Tech Service (only get an email address) but no reply yet. As a computer professional, I am disgusted by the amateur approach taken by this vendor.

Never gave a thought that I might have problems with this program. Now I have a miserable son asking me every morning if I have fixed Bugdom.

Do yourself a favor, do not touch this program unless you are positive that your computer can run it.