Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire - The Lost Games

by Disney

Product Features

• Unroadblock That! Strategically assemble a caravan of vehicles to break through a series of roadblocks on your way to Atlantis.
• Submergency Urgency: Help locate the entrance to Atlantis by piloting a sub pod through treachurous waters.
• Air Escapade: Fly your classic airplane through a dangerous volcano shaft to gather the king stones and rescue Princess Kida.
• Machine Arena: Design your very own dream machine and challenge a friend to an arena clearing mechanical jousting match.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000059REJ
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 16, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,869 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Discover Atlantis for yourself! The lost city may be sunk deep beneath the ocean, but quick-witted explorers can unlock its secrets--and rescue Princess Kida--in the process. With Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire--The Lost Games, this vanished realm is within your grasp.

The Lost Games offers preschool gamers a choice of five activities, all thematically tied, naturally, to Disney's newest animated feature film. The simplest of these is Atlantis Captured, which allows players to view and print images from the movie. A trio of transport-related games--Submergency Emergency, Unroadblock That! and Air Escapade--focus on simple arcade challenges in the sea, land, and air. Finally, Machine Arena allows you to construct customized attack vehicles and then pit them in a one-on-one smashup derby against either the computer or another player.

The games in this package are typical of Disney arcade-style games for young players, and share many of the same drawbacks. The ships in all but one of the vehicle-based activities are tiny and difficult to operate, a ready source of frustration for newer players. Children old and sophisticated enough to master their navigation, on the other hand, will find themselves driving through obstacle courses that are fundamentally repetitive and offer few surprises.

Machine Arena is a particular disappointment. There are few customization options for the vehicles players are building. And when crunch time comes, the game shrinks your creation down to a minuscule size in the combat arena and then limits you to an overhead view of the carnage. After personalizing your own fighting machine, you can barely see it in action!

That is not to say that The Lost Games is a lost cause. It features clean graphic design and appealing characters. The arcade games offer players a healthy number of levels that genuinely increase in difficulty. For users who have missed out on seeing similar games elsewhere, the activities may be enjoyable and fresh.

What's more--and perhaps most important for Disney fans--children intrigued by the movie will enjoy interacting with Audrey, Vinnie, Mrs. Packard, and Milo as they probe the depths of the lost oceanic empire. --Alyx Dellamonica

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Short on content, long on frustration, this set of five activities disappointed test kids and reviewers alike. Based on the upcoming animated film, Atlantis The Lost Empire, the program serves up four games and one picture-viewing activity. The latter is simply a throw-in, where kids can look at and print pictures from the film. The activities include a rather dull Submergency Urgency, which asks kids to pilot a sub pod through treacherous waters (read: obstacle course). Other games include a clever but difficult roadblock game where players must strategically choose the correct vehicle to break through various obstacles on the way to Atlantis. Kids found the steering of these trucks- via the arrow keys- difficult. Children also found the Machine Arena jousting game frustrating in that once they created their customized vehicle, it was hard to control.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars shortlived fun and frustrating, March 2, 2002

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This review is from: Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire - The Lost Games (CD-ROM)

My kids got this for Christmas. While they enjoy it for very short periods of time, they also get frustrated easily and call for help especially my 6 year old. The comments made by the movie characters are cute the first couple times but after that they are annoying and you can't avoid them or stop them. As you progress through the game's higher levels the game changes so little it's boring. The longest they play is about 15 minutes maybe once a week and that's pushing it.