Customer Reviews

Scooby Doo Glowing Bug Man

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

If any of you have expierienced past Scooby Doo games of this style, then you will understand this. In comparison, the voice acting in this is sub-par. The vocal animations are so generic that every word they speak looks just like the last. The load times between screens is a lot longer in this one than in past games. However, the puzzles are clever, and the background animations and layouts are very colorful and creative. Dropping you in many foreign locales. A good representation, and learning tool, of different cultures. My 5 year old enjoys this. But, myself, as a Scooby Doo fan, did not think that much of it. It was a bit shorter than previous games as well. Good game. Just not great. Hope the next volume shows more promise.

I would rate this a middle of the road four or at the very least a high three.

First the positive- the scooby gang are in a museum and a green glowing bug man has messed up the displays. They have to put the displays back together in order to earn clues. The clues point to a villian. Each of the 'games' or displays involves a different part of the brain- in one scooby has to jump on a conveyer belt to earn scooby snacks and collect bones, another is a puzzle, another is a matching game and so on. There are three different levels so you can have it fairly easy to fairly difficult. My five year old was able to play the easy with no help and the medium level with only a little bit of help.

The Negatives- The games are the same. The villians change but the games are the same- you are always doing a puzzle in the dinosaur room and it's always the same puzzle. The placement of the boxes in the puzzle might change but the idea is the same. I would have also liked to have seen the ability to change the levels of the puzzle as individual games, not the whole game.

However, it's a fun game.
I would also suggest the Freddy Fish games if your child likes to solve mysteries.

Enjoy.

A good game for the very young Scooby fan. Our 3 year old daughter loves this game. The puzzles are clever and educational. The three levels of game play differ enough to still excite and challenge young children who've mastered the easier levels. A great purchase for any Scooby fan under 7. Not too sophisticated but certainly not dumbed down.

My son loves Scooby Doo so of course this was the perfect choice for his first Computer game. He is only 4 and just learning how to use a Computer so I had to help him.

The setting is great in the Museum and he loved the different rooms you get to explore with bugs, dinosaurs and old bones. Each room contains some sort of a puzzle or game where at the end when you finish you receive a clue to match up with the 5 possible suspects. The one thing I didn't like is that some of the puzzles you had to do 4 times before you received the clue and that got a little boring having to do it over so many times.

There are great little effects in the game where when you click on some objects they will turn into the bug man for a few seconds or fly around the room etc.

Also Scooby and Shaggy will not go into any room without receiving a Scooby Snack first. The game only provides you with a few so at some point you have to go upstairs and play a game to receive more Scooby Snacks.

Overall it is a good game but it doesn't take long at all to finish it to the end. That was a bit dissapointing as I expected more from it. But the short while it does last is great fun for little Scooby Fans. I wouldn't recommend getting this game for young children unless you are willing and have the time to play it with them. They may get frustrated.

Jessica our 9 year old daugher said "this game is great, in one room you visit the cafeteria and you are challenged to blend different flavors of ice-cream until Shaggy gets the perfect cone. In each room you visit you need to find the clues to match the suspect until you find the glowing bugman". Hannah our 7 year old daughter said "this game is perfect, we both had fun with it and I think lots of people should have fun with it just like us"

This game is a good fun learning game for kids, especially if you like Scooby Doo. It has you go around to different places and find clues to help solve a mystery, just like in the shows.

I can't get this program to run with Nero installed, I just get an errorbox about a debugger. The game runs fine when Nero is uninstalled, but after re-installing Nero it refuses again.
Tried this on various computers (XP Pro and Home, English and Norwegian version, Nero OEM and Full) but got the same results everywhere. Customer support doesn't get further than advising to uninstall Nero.
Don't buy this program if you need Nero.

I think this is a great CD, what a thrill ride! The best part are the animated cinematics! Which are incredible despite what I understand are extremely trying budgets and deadlines on projects like these.
I give it two thumbs WAAAAY UP!

After playing some other Scooby games my daughter (8) and I decided to pick up this one. Unfortunately it was not as good as the previous one we played (Some Egypt location game). This one was more annoying than anything else. She finished it really quickly and basically put it away for good shortly after. The previous game has a high replay value - not so with this one. It might be fun for younger ones though...

I teach mentally handicapped adults with the average mental intelligence of kindergarteners and first graders. Although ultimately, this game was too hard for my students to play on a regular basis, parts of it were definitely suitable for my students in being both challenging and fun to play. I would definitely recommend this game for first graders and older and that in the beginning, it would help to play this game with your kids until you feel they are comfortable enough to play this game by themselves. All in all, a great game for Scooby Doo lovers!