Sounds like a disease, and once you've played it, you'll wish it was (Grinch (PC))

Member Name: wampyrii

Product:	Grinch (PC)
Date:	18/04/01 (94 review reads)
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Apparently Konami almost snatched the movie maker’s arm off in snapping up this video game/movie tie-in, so eager were they to get the rights to what was this year’s family favourite at the cinema. Whilst scores of children flocked to the cinemas to check out Jim Carey as the hirsute Grinch in the cinematic rendition of Dr Seuss’s Christmas classic, Konami beavered away in producing the home PC game to coincide with its release...

...but unfortunately they didn’t beaver very hard!

Quite frankly, this is one of the worst games I have played on the PC for a long time, Konami obviously relying on the fact that kids will swallow anything no matter how abysmal the graphics, how appauling the sound and how attrocious the gameplay. Well, maybe that was what kids were like once, but not these days, and quite frankly, even the most naive of children would baulk at the prospect of playing this attrocious pile of cr*p. Nobody accepts games of this quality and longer, and the idea that Konami sought to con a few kids out of their Christmas money with this title, relying solely upon the name to acheive this quite disgusting.

The graphics stink. The character of the Grinch wobbles along as a green, poorly animated splat against ever more poorly draw backdrops, which are so bad, that you have trouble recognising whether its a door in the wall, or just a pattern and levers etc. just get hidden amongst the general splurge which makes up the walls. This sort of thing makes it virtually impossible to play and at the very least extremely frustrating. If you get past this (and the poor escuse for sound effects) then you get hit by the gameplay. What gameplay? The puzzles are ridiculously simple, and whilst they my be aimed at children, there is no need to treat them like complete idiots. These are the same kids who played such classics as Sam and Max Hit The Road and Zelda other similar adventure games which do not insult their intelli
gence and have gameplay by the bucketload. Konami’s effort here is quite frankly offensive. Couple this with the occasional cut-scene which comes complete with a cringeworthy rhyme and you have a game which will find its way into the bottom drawer within a matter of hours.

At £25, this game is little more than an offensive attempt to rip off kids who went to see the movie. A few months after Christmas this abysmal game is still around but should be avoided like the plague. So little effort has been put into its production, which was obviously rushed off to coincide with Christmas, that you even have to exit it using ctrl+alt+del rather than there being an exit command built in.

Complete pants.

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