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Monsters Inc. Scream Arena

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I am not the type of person who normally enjoys playing video games, but Disney and Pixar's Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena was an absolutely adorable and enjoyable video game. While intended to be primarily a game for children, Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena is an enjoyable game for children of all ages as well as adults.

The game starts out with a short clip from the movie Monsters, Inc. and then sends the player into Monstropolis, the city where all the monsters in the movie live. There are many different stages, each representing a scene from the movie, but in order to get into a particular scene the player must succeed at the preceding arenas. Once the player succeeds at one arena, the next arena is unlocked.

Once the player has selected the scene that he or she desires to play, the next step is to choose which monster he or she wants to be. I should mention that the game can either be a single player game where the player competes with the game itself or it can be a multi-player game, where the players can either compete head to head with each other, or work together to defeat the game's monsters.

Choosing your monster is, in my opinion, the best part of the game. Nearly every monster, if not every monster, from the movie is able to be selected for use. Once the player has selected a monster, the monster will greet him or her by saying something along the lines of, "Thanks for choosing me!"

Not only does the monster speak, but it also acts in the same manner that he or she did in the movie. The player's monster is then placed into the arena you have chosen, and the game begins. Some examples of the arenas you can choose from are: Main Street, Mike and Sully's Apartment, the Lobby of the Monsters, Inc. Building, and Harry Hausens, the restaurant in the movie.

My favorite arena is the one at the Chinese Restaurant. In this scene, like all the other scenes, the object is to hit the other monsters with balls while your monster avoids being hit. The twist in this room is that there's a disco ball. Every time a monster is hit, he or she is frozen in that spot and begins to disco dance, giving the other monsters a better chance of hitting him or her.

Not only is this game adorable, but it is very fun to play. I would highly recommend that if you have access to a Nintendo Game Cube, you rent Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena and play it with your friends. When I played it with my friends, we played for numerous hours every day we had the game, and never once got bored or tired of playing. Hopefully you will find Monsters, Inc. Scream Arena as enjoyable as I did.

If you like dodge ball, you'll like this game. It's a little too easy to unlock new levels. In single player mode, I unlocked six levels in 3 hours. This game is great if you're my age, 7 years old, and you don't want something too challenging.

How to have a video game that is fun to play but does not involve killings and violence? DODGE BALL! A great premise! Goofy! Hilarious. The Monsters Inc. characters go at it trying to whack each other with progressively zanier balls in progressively more unusual. You talk about a GREAT game for my 5 year old to play. And with the ability to play 4 players, the whole family can get into the goofy act. These are the warm moments that you recall with warm cocoa by the fire, how your preschooler whacked you with the disco ball! Great great!

I thought that this game was very cool. Even though I unlocked all the levels in 2 days, you can go back to every level as many times as you want. As well as the normal levels for Solo and Buddy modes, when you play party mode, you have a choice of completely different types of play. For example, 'Ball Tag' is when each player has a timer and when you get hit at the beginning, your timer begins, indicating that you are 'it'. The moment you hit someone, your timer stops, and theirs begins. The game includes various characters from the movie. I thought the graphics were wonderful. Every thing is very realistic and the players say different things when hit. I recommend the game for people 5 and over.

This game has disappointing graphics for something with Pixar's name on it. I'm comparing it to say, Luigi's Mansion. The game's theme is pretty entertaining and compensates for it though. It is basically a giant doge ball tournament. Each match that you win unlocks a new level and character to use. It's about 4 stars.

My step-son bought this game for my 7 year old daughter. She loves it! As a matter of fact so do I! The part I like best about it is that she and I can play it together as "buddies". She likes that part best too! That makes it a lot of fun and we both laugh the whole time while we are playing it because we have so much fun and some of the things that happen in the game are funny. It's fairly easy to unlock different players so she gets a sense of accomplishment. The only thing I dont like is that all the levels are the same thing, but just different backgrounds instead of changing it up a little bit. But I would definately recommend this game for a young child- especially one like mine who is just starting out with video games.

Looking for a non-violent game for an older preschooler or early elementary schooler? This might be it!! Use the "buddy" system to play with your child and overcome hilarious (at least to kids) challenges together. Here's an even better idea from a kid. Play a real-life version of Scream Arena. Throw lightweight balls at each other and give each ball a role (slow motion ball, sneeze ball, keep-me-for-as-long-as-you-can ball, etc.). This is a super family video game!!

Hello I'm an autistic adult gamer.

This is my review on Monsters Inc for the GameCube.

Well I bought this at GameStop & also for my Wii & am enjoying the game alot. It's really fun you get to unlock characters & do other stuff. I only started playing it yesterday & really got into the game. But I really like this game. I also like how there are cut scenes from the movie Monsters Inc in the game if you press the X button nice touch to the game. Over all this is a great game & highly recommended by me. % out of 5 star quality in my opinion. Try this game out you'll like it great graphic's for under [...] bucks.

Happy Gaming everyone!

I bought this game for my 5 year old son. He really liked the movie and I mistakenly thought the game would be very similar. Some people might like it, but my son found it to be very boring and repetetive. You choose a character and then your character has to fight another monster in a room, which varies with each level. There are many different rooms to choose from, but the problem is that there is no story line; it's all fighting. My son likes games which have a story and puzzles to solve, etc. Monsters Inc. Scream Arena is not a game which appealed to our family.

This game rocks! It's so fun! I love the disco and pepper balls. You can be any character.. even Boo! There are some cool hideen features too. I love how you can ppick different areas to play in. The movies are good and very funny. You can block and throw fast or soft. I wish you could jump but my sister and I haven't been able to stop playing! My favorite character is Sully and hers is George Sanderson. Even mom and dad play! I would tell all my friends to buy it!