Grabbed By the Ghoulies

by Microsoft

Product Features

• A teenage boy named Cooper sees his girlfriend grabbed by ghoulies and dragged into an old abandoned house. He'll have to fight them to get her back, while avoiding the tricks and traps littered across Ghoulhaven Hall.
• Every possible type of danger is waiting for you here - vampires, zombies, mummies, skeletons, even haunted furniture
• Watch out for the scary surprises -- disembodied heads will appear and speak to you, faces will pop up in windows, and ghoulies will attack from everywhere
• Grab over 100 household objects to use as weapons -- from pool cues & soda cans to a garlic-shooting blunderbuss
• Avoid letting Cooper get too scared -- if he does, he'll be overwhelmed by fear, unable to act -- and an easy target for the Ghoulies!

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000C6FJ3
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,426 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Grabbed by the Ghoulies is a funny adventure that will keep you on your toe!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grab a copy for your kids -- or yourself., October 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Grabbed By the Ghoulies (Video Game)

If you've ever played a game by RARE (the guys who made the Donkey Kong Country and Banjo-Kazooie games), you'll know what to expect when you play Grabbed by the Ghoulies. A fun game that everybody in the family can have a good time playing.

I expected the the game to be visually stunning (and it is) and the game play to be fun (again, it is), but I didn't expect myself to spend so much time on a "kiddie" game.

Don't get fooled. This isn't a game that's easy per se. The different challenges will actually get that adreneline running and you'll be leaning forward in your seat. This is the kind of game that you can play with your kids or let them play alone when you've got chores to finish up.

Some of my favorite moments are when you get to use the wacky selection of weapons (chairs, water guns, hamburgers, pictures, brooms, etc). When you're surrounded by a bunch of ghoulies -- skeletons, ninja imps, mummies, zombies, vampire chickens -- and have to use your joystick to beat em up.

The characters are really funny and there's a lot of cool features that make this game a great gift for your kids or for yourself. Be sure to grab a copy of Grabbed by the Ghoulies.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the funest Games Ever!, December 2, 2003

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Wilfred Bryan "The Librarian" (Athens, texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grabbed By the Ghoulies (Video Game)

This game is tons fun! My wife and I played it for nearly two hours last night. The game is full of great graphics and super sight gags. It would be a game that you wouldn't be affaird to let your kids play alone. It has a very comic book feel to the graphics and story line. The action is non-stop and the game moves really quickly. The very best part is that you don't have to be a mast video game player to get the maxium amount of enjoyment out of it. I'm not one who is extremely awesome at games, but I do really well at this one. The only draw back to it is having to use the right thumb stick to attack with. Other than that its a perfect game playing experience. Hope to hear more from the Ghoulies in the future.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kudos to Rareware's First Xbox Title, November 30, 2003

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Orlo Elfes "the_elf" (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grabbed By the Ghoulies (Video Game)

As rabid Rareware fans on Nintendo, we bought an Xbox also expecting great things from the newly Microsofted Rare folks. GBTG was pre-ordered the first day put they option on the page.

It's good, but it ain't no Banjo-Kazooie or Tooie. The hero and would-be rescuer, Cooper, has rather minimal moves - he can't jump (very embarassing when a 12 inch tall box on the floor effectively prevents you from moving to the other side of the room. There is very little opportunity for exploration of other areas besides the immediate room that you are in. It's mainly a fighting game, without that much control over the type of fighting. Unbeknownst to the first-time player, a compilation is being kept of Cooper's successes/failures and finds, which results at the very end of the game as a "SCAREY SCORE". We had no idea while we played that such tracking was occuring - it wasn't noticeable on any of the screens. Lastly, it's a short game. My daughter and I aren't superfast players (e.g. Banjo Tooie took us 6 months), but we were SHOCKED to see the word "COMPLETED" on the screen after we defeated the Baron JUST A MONTH AFTER WE GOT THE GAME. That's it?!?!?

A good game, but low on the adventure scale and on the problem solving scale.

We're hoping Kameo has a little more of a Banjo lean to it...