Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey

by TDK

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• ASIN: B00008KUAC
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 17, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,355 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fine for kids, but dated for most, June 18, 2004

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey (Video Game)

Fans of dinosaurs will enjoy romping around with your favorite T-Rexes and stegos. But for the rest of us, this platform-adventure is a bit dated.

The premise is pretty clunky. Twin boys, Drake and Jacob, are in their mid 20s and stranded on the dinosaur-filled island of Dinotopia. Their father loved dinosaurs and was recently killed by one. One boy hates dinosaurs and has joined the "outsiders". The other (i.e. you, the Good Son), swears to uphold his father's love of dinosaurs and become their guardian.

Through a series of pretty hokey quests, you are gathering apples finding "lost marbles", solving puzzles and so on as you gain experience. You get stronger and messenger birds bring you new skills along the way. Your brother doesn't seem to care for you much, as the gang he's with active plots to harm you.

The rich Scottish brogue that you and your brother speak adds strange atmosphere to a game that really needs it. The graphics are rather dated. You have chunky graphics including mouths that don't move during cinematics. The tree-houses look nice enough, but after a while going from non-opening door to non-opening door all painted with the same texture map gets a little monotonous. It's hard to keep track of where you've been.

The sound is also reasonably good but just not up to what you expect in a game. It's sort of modern-renaissance, a bland melody that rolls into the background. With the amazing quality of other soundtracks out there - where you download the songs to play when you're not playing the game - this one isn't very memorable.

I normally really love adventure games and platform games, and since I think dinosaurs are pretty neat I was expecting to enjoy this a lot. But it plodded along too slowly, and the quests and missions were just too over-scripted. I know adventure games are about quests. It's just the way they are. But somehow, other games make them excited. This game makes you roll your eyes.

Still, this can be fun for kids who love dinosaurs and want something simple and fun to play. There aren't guns, no blood. So it all depends on your age range!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Kid's review, January 23, 2010

A Kid's Review

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey (Video Game)

Nice graphics and the Dinosaurs are Interesting in it and cool but, it's kinda boyish I mean all these sounds. I Didn't like this Game because I am not a boy, but I play Godzilla because I don't Have to Kill humans in it. Just defeating Monsters but in this Game I have to defeat them here and I don't like That. and the game is a little bit too hard. But the graphics are nice.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For All Dinotopia Fans!!!!!, August 19, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dinotopia: The Sunstone Odyssey (Video Game)

I love this game!!! The dinosaurs look and sound real!!! The challenges are'nt that diffucult. Buy this for dino fans!!!