Happy Feet

by Midway

Product Features

• Happy Feet - Wii

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000GPZSA6
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 1 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 13, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,533 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo Wii

Based on Warner Bros. Pictures' comedy adventure Happy Feet, Midway's immersive video game puts the player in the "tap shoes" of Mumble, a young penguin born into a nation of singing Emperor Penguins where each needs a Heartsong to attract a soul mate. Unfortunately, Mumble is the worst singer in the world... however, as it happens, he is a brilliant tap dancer! Based on the general storyline of the film, the player will be able to experience life from the point of view of Mumble in music, dance and interaction with the friends and enemies of the penguin's world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's alright, November 26, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Happy Feet (Video Game)

This game is actually kind of fun and it DOES use the remote. The only set back to this game is the types of games that you must do each level. Most of them consist either of dancing (which is like a Dance Dance Revolution- hit the botton when the arrow is in the correct spot), swimming (which involves moving the remote in the direction that you want to swim and try to go through bubbles and rings), or sledding down hills (which is similar to the swimming challenges but you try to collect different objects). Overall this game was pretty fun but you would not want it ot be your only Wii game. It can get pretty boring after a while.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Game Designers Must have Rushed, January 12, 2007

By 

Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Happy Feet (Video Game)

Happy Feet is a dancing penguin game, based on the movie. It tries to teach kids to respect their own talents even if they do not fit in with the crowd.

If you've seen the movie, you know the storyline. A little penguin is born, is named Mumble, and loves to dance. The other penguins want him to sing and don't appreciate his dancing skills. After ups and downs, all ends up happy and well.

The game progresses in a "move from dot one to dot two" style timeline, with you moving from task to task one after another. Each task can be replayed as many times as you wish to get the top score. There are several difficulty levels, so young kids can go through at easy, while older players can try the harder difficulty levels. It's no surprise if a gamer over age 7 does well on "easy" - the point of easy is that it is EASY and meant for very little gamers!

There are three main styles of gameplay. In one, you're waving the controller up, down, left and right in the Dance Dance Revolution style, along with disco hits such as "That's the Way I Like It (Uh Huh)". In the next, you hold your Wii controller sideways and use it to swim through the water, aiming for circles and other objects while breathing in bubbles. In the third, you're zooming down an icy slope, dodging rocks and gathering items. Cut scenes in between explain why you're doing a particular task.

I'm a fan of DDR, and I enjoy sports style games, so I would have thought this game would be generally appealing to me. However, the game is missing a creative spark. The levels all seem very similar to each other. When you're dancing, you get very little feedback on how well you're doing - if you do well, it doesn't seem to matter much. There's no energy to it.

I also really tried to have an open mind about the accents, but I found them bordering on offensive. It almost seemed that they were "trying to lure in the Hispanic gamers", but what they ended up doing is making numerous characters seem like Cheech & Chong, high on drugs, unable to speak a single sentence correctly. If I were a Hispanic mother, I doubt this is the sort of role model I'd want my children thinking was normal. It's very much like Jar Jar in the Star Wars story.

I do appreciate the general message - if you love to dance, and are good at dancing, don't feel badly when people put you down for not singing well. Shine at what you do best and love. With all the great game designers out there, and with the large budgets that movies get, I think they could have afforded to put out a better quality game to go with the message, that kids and adults would really enjoy playing. This just wasn't a best effort.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good (-:, December 29, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Happy Feet (Video Game)

Pretty good game. I'm twelve, so I'm a little past the age group they're shooting for, but I still think It's pretty good. It's and awsome game for yunger children than me, but I still like it. It's pretty easy to beat (for me), but after that, I can go to family mode and dance against people, race down the icey slopes, and compeat to capture the most hearts in the water. It's a good game.

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