Customer Reviews

Sneakers

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

 

 

This game is lots of fun for young children... an audience not quite targeted by the Xbox in this country. Adult gamers will do better skipping this title, as it's quite repetitive and "boring" from an grown-up's point of view.

Basically you play as Apollo (and his friends) in search of food stolen by a bunch of rats (which, curiously, look for the most part smaller than mice!). You can only follow a set path, and go left or right most of the time. There's no free roam at all. The characters are cute enough, the music Nintendo-like (and excruciating to adults after about 2 minutes), and the gameplay simple.

If you have a 4-6-year-old in your family, he/she will like the cute mice running around solving simple puzzles. Otherwise, you should save yourself thirty dols and buy Mech Assault.

This is a GREAT game for kids and kids only! My 3-year-old son plays this for hours and enjoys it thoroughly, but anyone over 6 has gotten bored with this within 20 minutes.

The ad says "Fur shading available only on X-box". Many games have fur-shading(Star Fox Adventures for Gamecube for example). This false statement is the first of many. When this game was released in Japan, it was a huge failure...now I know why. Basically, you run around a house searching for rats. When you see one, they just disappear. No fighting...goals would be like spot 20 rats in a level. There are some random battles that serve no point, too. My kids played this for five minutes before getting bored of the game. The game's concept sounds interesting and the mouse does look cute, but trust me this game is the worst X-box game so far. They had to release this at a lower price point just to get people to take notice of it, but be smart and try to stay away from this horrible game.

I just got this game for my son ( 4 years old ) and we played together for the last 3 hours. We had a great time looking for the rats all over the house.
So far we didn't pass the first level but I already know this one is going to be a winner.

My friends and I joke about the worst video game ever, not surprisingly, this always wins. This game is so terrible I wish I could rate it no stars or even negative. The manufacturers should be paying you to take this off their hands so they can be wiped clean of what a bad job they did. The mechanics and movement are a bit too tough for younger kids and by the time they develop the skills to be able to perform the actions the game is already boring. DO NOT buy this game or rent it or even think about it other than to quote it as being the worst ever. If you want to see how bad it possibly could be then go ahead and pick it up if you can get it for very cheap. I would advise you to just take my word on how horrible this game is though and save yourself some anguish and night terors.

I primarily purchased this game for my 5 year old, but I discovered the whole family got involved:) In this game you have to actually think and work as a team to find the rats. We thought the only gameplay was in the house according to the reviews that other people gave. But we found out it is a thought game not just a fighting game. There is a total of 5 levels each in different surroundings which in itself is very challeging. Don't give up its alot of fun:)

This game was truly [...]. Not simple enough for really young kids, and beyond boring for older ones. You can't even just run around freely. It's like you can only go left or right and then choose a direction at specific "intersections". Absolutely terrible. Avoid this one like the plague.

Everyone knows that the Xbox does not have many E-rated games (aside from sports) and is targeted at teens, after all this is why you get an Xbox over a lamecube. Fortunately, Sneakers provides some relief for your child(ren) aged 3-6 you should get this game. But if your not that age this is no fun at all and could be considered the worst game on Xbox (For you, anyways).It's not that hard to figure that out as it is a Toys R Us exclusive.

If only I had known...almost an arcade style or 1 dimensional view. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb..Kid's 10 & 8yo won't play it.

Admittedly I bought this game primarily because I am an XBOX owner since the start and remember seeing this game (known as Nezmix) released for the Japanese market. It looked interesting back then in the early issues of the official XBOX magazine and I figured that someday I would track this down if it ever hit these shores.

Sure enough, Sneakers did make it out in the U.S. (as a Toys R Us EXCLUSIVE!) and based on it's limited release, it will surely someday be a sought after collectable. The game features some nice graphics and I must say I really enjoyed it for a while. The price isn't too bad and the game is a simple little title that harkens back to the 8-bit days of gaming.

Should you buy it? I'd say yes..it's one of those titles you'll pull out now and then for the simple game play and as a reminder of just how much of an advancement the first generation of XBOX software was over the PS2 and Gamecube. If you're a l337 gamer who cares only about the latest and greatest 3D FPS, then stay away.