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xsBusiness - Psychonauts
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List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $25.94
Your Save: $ 4.05 ( 14% )
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Manufacturer: Majesco Sales Inc.
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Majesco
EAN: 0096427013983
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: Enter people's minds and use your powers of levitation and Psi-Blasts to face people's worst fears
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Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Majesco Sales Inc.
Manufacturer: Majesco Sales Inc.
Model: 96427013983
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Xbox
Publisher: Majesco Sales Inc.
Release Date: 2005-04-20
Studio: Majesco Sales Inc.
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Features
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Enter people's minds and use your powers of levitation and Psi-Blasts to face people's worst fears
Rise up in rank as you collect figments of other people's imaginations, sort their emotional baggage, clear out their mental cobwebs, and crack open their memory vaults
Complete special training missions to earn new powers like telekinesis, pyrokinesis and more
Fully interactive environments - use tightropes, trapezes, ladders, poles, ledges, trampolines, climbing walls and rail slides to your advantage
Multiple paths and sub-challenges - the nonlinear gameplay offers greater depth and better gameplay
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Instant Classic
Comment: It's a shame adventure games like this aren't being made as much anymore. I grew up on adventure games such as King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and of course the Tim Schafer games, Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle. Psychonauts brings adventure gaming to the platform adventure environment. The creative concept of going into the minds of others and exploring the world in there mind provides a world of limitless imagination. And it even makes me think about the psychology of real people.
The story is engaging, and keeps you glued as you jump into the minds of different people. The graphics are cute. As you get towards the end, it environment and stories become more grim. Controls are decent. I had a minor problem with landing jumps with the camera angle and shimmying along edges, but nothing major. I highly recommend this game to anyone who's a platformer, adventure, puzzle fan.
I really hope there's a sequel.
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Summary: I've put so many hours into this game...
Comment: I finally got 100% on this game but it took long enough! This is one of the most underrated games of all time. Charming platformer. Great replay value. I would have paid ten times the amount I did and for the hours I've gotten out of it... totally worth it.
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Summary: itr seems to stick with you
Comment: i played this game when it first came out and I'll never forget it! i loved it so much! but it is just a game.
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Summary: Could be a perfect 360 game! You listening, Microsoft?
Comment: I'm only a few hours into this title and the other 5-star reviews aren't lying...this is a fabulous game on all levels (save one, w/ caveats--and that I'll get to later). I'm a long-time gamer (began on the Atari 2600 and Apple IIe) so I've sort of 'seen it all'-- and thus find myself gravitating towards titles that transcend genre and cliched game mechanics. The same old, same old, even with splashy new next-gen hooks, well, BORES ME.
"Psychonauts" acheives both the comfort of familiarity and the refreshing draw of the truly inspired and original. It's familiar in the sense that it creates and evokes a world akin to a Pixar feature--it has bright colors, lots of humor and the game is engineered in such a way that you immediately feel safe to explore. The blood and gore is left checked at the door...but the intelligence and freshness isn't, so the surprises and rewards for playing arent' cheap shock, but more substantive. You quickly grow to love the characters and the world.
I wish there were more of this type of gaming available on the Xbox--it reminds me why I was so fond of the variety available on the Playstation 2, and why I enjoyed titles ranging from Ico, Klonoa, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear and so on, to outstanding end-of-life titles such as Shadow of the Colossus and Okami. In none of those are you pushed to spill human blood in mindless swaths, and they were all incredibly gorgeous and innovative.
In the end, my only complaint/caveat is that there is no next-gen upgrade available for this title--"Psychonauts" begs to be given an overhaul for the 360s graphics engine capabilities, much like the upcoming PS3 "Ratchet and Clank" title will have. Alas, this isn't any demerit to the developers, but more a woeful shake of the head to the Xbox audience that didn't give this game it's due respect in sales and thus encourage such an enterprise.
Go buy this game and enjoy--and keep your fingers crossed that Microsoft will eventually 'get it' the way I'm betting you will...
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Summary: You want to play it
Comment: I have problems starting a video game...let alone finishing one. This wasn't hard at all to get into and become immediately enthralled in its gameplay and story. The controls are fantastic as is the character development and 'gimmicks' which the game uses to great results.
The irony is that as a Psychologist I wish that I could just jump into peoples skull jelly like on the game and solve their problems, but alas...
I would recommend this game for all age levels and all types of pschoses
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Editorial Reviews:
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Psychonauts are special psychic operatives with powers they use in service to the world's governments. When studentsbegin disappearing from Psychonaut boot camp, a young recruit begins tracking down the mad scientist responsible. Face inner demons and wrestle with other people's nightmares, while accomplishing your mission -- all without going insane. Immersive story injected with lots of humor and lots of imaginative environments Challenging puzzles with alternate solutions that self-tailor to your strategies&abilities
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