Customer Reviews

Universal Studios Theme Park

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(37)

 

 

First, lets just say that this game sounds awesome. So you order it. Get it, then play it. Then you will say " Why did I waste $50 on this?". Good question!
First, I will say the visuals of the park are excellent. That is the only reason it got 2 stars in my rating. But that is where it all ends. You start out at the beginning of the park looking for a park map. You walk around, talk to people and Woody Woodpecker who are trying to give you clues as to what to do next. Well, you don't need clues. All you do is go to each attraction( which are Back to the Future, Backdraft, Lost World, Jaws, E.T. and Western World) complete the tasks or mini-games for each attraction and get a stamp. Oh, I forgot, the big challenge is to find all of the letters in the park that spell out Universal Studios. Of course it is no challenge at all! Once you have collected all of the stamps and have seen the "Hollywood Magic Show", the game ends. I finished it in 2 hours.
There is only one possible purpose to this game, advertisement for Universal Studios! Maybe it is good and challenging for young kids(10&under), otherwise don't waste your money! Rent it first to see if you like it, but I doubt you will.

I gave this four stars instead of three, because the high points of this game really do matter. This is what I thought Universal Studios: Theme Parks Adventure has inside:

The High and Good Points:
*Based on Universal Studios in Japan
*Great Photo-Realistic Graphics
*Real-time voices
*One of the best graphic displays on the GCN yet
*A must for minigame fans
*Additictive Gameplay
*Great Movie Music, highly added
*Minigames are fun and some are two players
*A movie quiz with over 500+ questions
*Great, un-sloppy cinema sequences

The Average Points:
*Only main characters talk
*Not much characters
*Takes a while to beat on other modes
*Easy mode way too easy, doesn't help you prepare for normal and hard mode at all
*Attraction Mode base poorly thought out
*Should have included the Backlot Tour or more minigames
*Map makes no sense what so ever since you go in little sequences

The Bad and Low Points:
*Camera Angles are horribly made
*Guides say you can explore in first-person, which is not true
*Some minigames are arcade-style, but have skimpy play control
*Backdraft is extremely hard to beat in easy and normal mode
*Jurassic Park is a game that has an unbeatable ending in Normal and Hard mode
*E.T. is way too simple on any mode
*Very, extremely childish at times, especially in the character voices and the puzzles
*Puzzles ridiculously easy
*Quiz is way too hard on normal and hard mode
*Quiz becomes way too easy after you saw the questions a million times
*Talking to people makes no sense, since they are always talking about "Universal Studios is so great"
*Caps and the Hover Board makes a great collection of stuff to collect, but there should be more (like the real things at a theme park [Souvenirs and Food])

This is not a promo for the studios, but is highly into talking about the park.

To sum this up, Universal Studios: Theme Parks Adventure is fun for a rent, but a pain for a buy. So, rent it and have fun, which was I did and I was satisfied.

Should you ever find yourself entering the gates of Hell, Satan will personally hand you a copy of this GC turd. Why? Because playing this ultra-boring video "game" is worse than having a spike driven through your pancreas. The designers of this stinker should be forced to play it for 24 hours. The game play is as exciting as watching flies mate. Your pathetic missions are sprinkled with tedious trash-picking and disturbing mini-games. In fact, when you throw a piece of trash away, the boy exclaims with delight, "This is FUN!" It's as if they need to tell you that you are actually enjoying the game. Of course, you are not. You are figuring out ways to get your money returned while holding back the tears. Be afraid. Be very afraid... And bored out of your mind.

Well, to start off, the only reason I rented this game was for the BTTF ride, but once I had played that game, it was boring. All you do is hit Biff, the only thing that can hold you back from winning is running out of time! None of the games kept to the story of the movie, nor the ride, except for BTTF.

Another something I found to be a down side to this game, was the camera angles. When you're walking through the park, the camera stays in one place! It gets very frustrating at times. Another bad thing about this game is that it's the easiest game I've ever played! Now that can be good, or bad, but in this case, it's bad. The games are short, silly, and easy. Once you beat it, there's nothing else to do. I beat this game in one day! My question is, where's the challenge?!

Well, few as they are, it dose have some good points. One would be the graphics, they are wonderful! The Animation is very well done.

So, would I buy this game? No. Would I rent it? Yes, I already have, but I wouldn't rent it again. So if your not sure, rent the game, but wait on buying it, I think you'd be a bit disappointed.

Well maybe I'm just too old for this one, but I went in expecting it to be more of a kids game. Nevertheless, this was without question the worst game I've ever played on any system. The game interface was incredibly poorly constructed, moving from one screen to the next made no sense as your perspective changes more or less randomly every time you move to a new area, and your viewpoint is set arbitrarily by the game. I find it astonishing that with all of the 3d graphics power of the system this game won't even let you change your viewpoint. There are no markings for where you can and can't go, so you spend a great deal of time just walking into dead ends to make sure there isn't something there. The games themselves are dull and unimaginative, most requre no real input from the user anyway and almost play themselves. Many of the games I tried to play turned me away with a message that there were too many people on the ride already? Maybe that is an accurate reflection of what Universial Studios is really like, but its infuriating in a video game. And while you can assume from the name that its a promotion for Universal Studios, the level of advertising got very annoying very quickly. Every person in the game that you talk to gushes about how wonderful Universal Studios is, and after about the 10th in-game ad for their park I just stopped talking to the other people. Don't waste your money on this one.

I remember I got this on my birthday. I looked down on gift, self-conscious of my disappointment. So of course I had to play it. In this game, you control a deformed child in Universal Studios. Mysteriously, the park only contains white tourists, which leads me to believe there's a secret underground klan faction somewhere in Universal Studios. (There's some strange fruit growing near the Jaws lake...) Hours of picking up trash and tedious mapping ensue, and you're occasionally treated to a rejected Chuck E. Cheese minigame, only with less smeared pizza and more crappy video game. Sometimes you'll encounter Woody Woodpecker, who apparently vacantly walks around in several park locations at once. He innocently chirps, "I'll peck out your SOUL," as he backhands you for your precious tickets, no doubt to buy illegitimate substances to sell to Cracky Cracksniffer.

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do not buy it. it was a horrible.it will put you into convulsions.it will give you cancer its too late for me.save yourself.

Today is the 21st and universal studios came out. I just stoped playin it. A couple of hours ago i got it and i could not wait to play it!!! ITZZZZZ SOOOOOOO COOOOOOL! its defenitley not like other games but its great. The objective is to collect things throughout the actual park and then use them for playin mini games on universal rides such as my favorite: Backdraft where u hav to save victims in a fire and put it out. ET, jurrasic park, wild wild west and many others. woody wood pecker is your guide through the game along with other employes and park guest that will help u in the game...pEaCe

This is the worst game that has ever been created. I rented it at 10:30 AM on a saturday, i got home, began to play and at 10:45AM i returned it. It is the biggest piece of crap ever made. The creater should get fired for making me waste 5 dollars on renting it. I was about to buy it too. Thank god i decided to rent it. Please, if you read this, do not even think about buying this game. Too bad i couldn't give it a zero for stars. If you are a parent going to buy this, don't kill you child with boardum.

First off, let me say that this game was obvously designed for young kids. The only reason I even bothered with this game after hearing all of the negative reviews, was because I am one the biggest Back to the Future fans (not to mention a fan of the Universal Theme Parks themselves.) I went out and rented it first.
I was actually expecting a worse game, but it was funner than I thought it would be. The Back to the Future chase's opening and ending cutscenes were both mega-cool to me, but the chase itself was a little lacking, (however, I still played this mini-game more than the others. What OTHER game is there were you can fly around in a DeLorean?)
The Jaws minigame was about the only thing they could come up with that would make any sense for a Jaws based game, so no dissapointments there.
Backdraft was fun, although I found it very difficult to move your character (which you get to choose from a limited variety) around.
E.T. was so simple, I don't think it's possible to lose if you played blind-folded and moved the stick around randomly!
Jurassic Park was tough, until I realized you could lock on missiles to shoot down the dinosaurs.
And Waterworld must have either been an unfinished part of the game they just left on the game disk, or just designed for an easy point getter.
If you save up your points (which you must do to ride anything anyway) you can buy merchandise like hats to get on the various rides, and Hoverboards to get around the park quicker.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, unless you like any of the movies this game has, or you just like Universal Studios (like I do.) If you do, this would be a fun little diversion that only takes about 2 hours fully play through.