Disney's Classic Action Game Collection

by Disney

Product Features

• Disney Pixar Toy story
• Disney Pixar a Bugs Life
• Disneys Tarzon

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005B8LP
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 1.5 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,677 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Swing on vines, scuttle through anthills, and clean up your room with Disney's Classic Action Game Collection. Disney has put games based on their animated movies Tarzan, A Bug's Life, and Toy Story into this set (contains three CD-ROMs). All three selections install separately, are Windows-only, and are your basic "run, jump, throw, find, and get" action games. All three allow players to adjust the difficulty level, and save and load different games. These games really require a joystick or a gamepad to be fully enjoyed, though they can all be played using a keyboard.

Tarzan is the darkest game of the bunch, as well as the best graphically. Drums throb and baboons chatter through 13 levels as Tarzan grows from a boy to a man. In later levels, the player can assume the identities of other characters from the movie. Players swing from vines, use pronghorn antelopes as trampolines, and fly aboard storks. The action is fluid enough that these tasks are a pleasure, though the timing on the vine release does take some getting used to. Tarzan initially dispatches enemies by hurling fruit. Later, knife-and-spear play enter into the game. Disney attempts to counter this violence with fantasy: defeated enemies burst into a cloud of butterflies instead of realistically keeling over.

The weakest game here is the one based on the movie Toy Story. Players assume the identity of the gangly cowboy Woody, rescuing good toys and fighting bad ones in a world that's as flat as an Etch A Sketch drawing. Tasks are assigned on each level by, yes, an Etch A Sketch, which redeems this game somewhat since kids must read directions, then memorize and carry out the orders. But expect frustration when Woody can't accomplish a simple room-cleaning assignment in the allotted time because a chair is in his way and he's designed to need 50 tries to hop onto and over it. The Toy Story game is the one to install if you're tight on disk space, since it only requires 8 MB to run--compare that to Tarzan's requirement of 50 MB and A Bug's Life's 35 MB requirement and it's easy to understand why Toy Story feels awkward.

The game based on A Bug's Life has some pastoral charm as Flik the ant trots around a three-dimensional world on a quest that's similar to his silver screen goal of saving the queen. During an animated tutorial, a wise old ant teaches players about throwing fruit, "abdomen bounces," useful berries, transforming seeds, and other arcane facts of ant life necessary to enjoy the 15 levels of this complex game. Optional puzzles and hidden passages allow players to take a break from the task-oriented work of getting through the levels. The only real downside to A Bug's Life is that the point of view, or "camera," has a tendency to swoop and dive to distraction. You'll need to use that camera lock key frequently if you want to survive with your equilibrium intact. (Rated E for Everyone) --Anne Erickson

Product Description

Action Game Colletion , Immersive 3D animated landscapes and intense 3D graphics. 15 levels of gameplay

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Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 3 GREAT GAMES IN ONE., August 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Disney's Classic Action Game Collection (CD-ROM)

I HAVE 4 CHILDREN WHO PLAY GAMES ON THE COMPUTER.THEY ARE 17,11,9,&4.THESE THREE GAMES ARE GREAT FOR ALL AGES.(BOYS&GIRLS)TOY STORY IS ESPECIALLY CUTE,MY 4 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER LOVES TO DANCE LIKE BUZZ LIGHTYEAR AND TO PLAY THE CLAW GAME TO PICK UP THE ALIENS.IT IS ALSO EDUCATIONAL IN A FUN WAY.TARZAN & BUGS LIFE ARE VERY FUN.THE KIDS PLAY THEM OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... MY ONLY REGRET IS THAT I DID NOT BY THEM AT THIS GREAT PRICE!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bad job on a good idea., December 14, 2003

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Eman (Fairview, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disney's Classic Action Game Collection (CD-ROM)

Disney software, unlike disney movies, is generally very poor. The ideas for the actual programs are excellent but getting them to work on anything other than ancient pentium based PCs can be a challenge to say the least. This would normally not be a problem if there were any type of software support. There isn't. Zero, Nada, Zilch. You get the idea. You will get messages like incompatable sound or must run in 256 color mode to name just a few. Out of 7 PCs in my home (I build them for a living) I can only get them to run 75% trouble free on one old Celeron 533. So if you're looking for trouble free software for your kids skip the Disney stuff and keep looking.