- Relive the feature film experience! 13 challenging levels, various bonus levels.
- Animated scenes straight from the feature film! Variety of moves, characters, and items.
- Scenes and characters based on the Disney animated film.
- Players: 1, Vibration Function Compatible.
Product description
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Overcome the jungle's most dangerous perils in this
action-packed adventure. Based on the animated film, Tarzan
allows you to relive Tarzan's journey through life from a
headstrong youth to a courageous adult. Your innate jungle
abilities will allow you to swing, climb, run, jump, and surf
through 13 beautiful environments, while interacting with unique
characters, riding elephants, and solving challenging puzzles.
It's now up to you to master the moves of this unique jungle hero
and save Tarzan's family from a ruthless hunter.
.com
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If you're ready for an exciting jungle adventure, grab your
loincloth and get swinging. This arcade action game contains 14
challenging levels to conquer, as well as movie clips taken
directly from the popular animated Disney film Tarzan (
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contains the obligatory Tarzan yell.
While running and swinging from vines and branches, Tarzan tries
to collect items scattered throughout the game. The "king of the
jungle" can sport several special moves to complete his quest,
including a unique ground pound that allows Tarzan to break
through objects to reveal secret areas. Strength-building bananas
can be consumed for extra power, and Tarzan can also throw spears
and knives to defeat his enemies.
While Tarzan's loincloth is ever so lovely, you can also don a
dress in this game... to play as Jane, of course. This game
certainly scores points for variety. In addition to Tarzan and
Jane, there's the friendly ape Terk, and a few other familiar
characters--all of which have their own special moves.
Game settings for easy, medium, and hard accommodate players'
varying skill levels. However, while Tarzan is geared for younger
children, the special attack and the ground pound moves may be
too difficult for them. --Kasty Thomas
Pros:
* Great graphics, including full motion movie clips
* Based on the hit movie Tarzan (
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Cons:* Game may be too difficult for some younger children
* Some of the animals killed are cute and furry
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From the Manufacturer
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Overcome the jungle's most dangerous perils in this
action-packed adventure. Relive Tarzan's journey through life
from a headstrong youth to a courageous adult. Interact with
unique characters ride on elephants solve challenging puzzles and
surf on trees. Master the moves of this ultimate jungle hero.
Review
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Disney-released video games are becoming almost as routine as
Disney-released animated films, only the games tend to be more
insufferable. It's that negative emotion, alongside the vestigial
shellshock of A Bug's Life, that keeps people from looking
forward to a movie-license game that's due to arrive on the heels
of the movie itself. If Eurocom's Tarzan game proves anything,
however, it's that sometimes it feels quite good to be proven
wrong.
Tarzan, the game, follows the recently released animated film's
plot exactly, and that's a very good thing, as the movie's pacing
is conducive to the challenges you expect from a video game.
Actually, what Tarzan captures, surprisingly, is the simplicity
(with challenge) found in classic games. Tarzan's a single-player
game; you play as Tarzan most of the time, first as the young ape
man in training and then later as the perpetually "prime of life"
Tarzan. When you're not playing as Tarzan, you're running through
the jungle as Jane, in a Victorian dress, attempting to flee a
pack of baboons; or you're tearing up the campsite as Terk,
Tarzan's she-ape companion.
There are 14 levels in all, and, surprisingly, each level and the
objective therein is strikingly different from one another. Sure,
there are conventions that reoccur in some levels, such as
swinging on vines or sliding along fallen trees. However, these
consistent features contribute to your overall grasp of the
gameplay and become more demanding as you proceed (yes,
demanding. Tarzan is not an easy game). About half the levels are
composed of standard 2D platform jumping, while you grab items
and avoid animals until you reach the end. The rest of the levels
take advantage of action scenes in the movie. In the Stampede
level, for example, you control Tarzan as he runs ahead of a pack
of elephants C Bandicoot- or Herc's Adventures-style. You
move from side to side and jump when necessary. This parallels
the stampede scene in the movie. In the Sabor Attacks level, you
fight the leopard, Sabor, with a spear and with tricky jumping
moves a number of times until you conquer him, just as in the
film. The aforementioned event with Jane is the Baboon Chase
level, which follows the movie so closely that it has Tarzan
swinging in to save you, hence navigating the chase at that
point.
Bonus levels exist as well. To earn one, you must collect four
pieces of Jane's baboon drawing scattered around the environment.
If you do so, you'll glide down a stream on a raft, grabbing
tokens and fruits until the timer runs out, or you'll ride
through the jungle on a stork, doing the same, or you'll slide
along the fallen trees in the style of Crystal Dynamic's
Pandemonium, ducking limbs and jumping over others. What's the
point of tokens and fruit? It's all pretty intuitive. The tokens,
in lots of 100, give you an extra life, and the fruits (yellow,
purple, red, and blue of varying strengths and availability), are
for you to lob at animals that get in your way. You'll also pick
up other objects, such as a stone blade, to use against
close-range predators. Bananas are used to increase your
meter and are pretty readily available throughout the game. If
you collect all the letters in Tarzan's name (also scattered
throughout each level), you open up movies that move the game
forward. Worthy of mentioning, too, is the fact that you can go
back and replay saved levels, should you want to find all the
tokens, drawing pieces, or letters to gain extra lives (necessary
for some of the later levels) or acquire a better ending score.
In regard to gameplay, Tarzan's controls are responsive, for the
most part, with some exceptions on the jumps and in fights with a
noxious monkey or poisonous frog. And while you usually deal with
the animals (sometimes your enemies, sometimes there to give you
a lift) immediately, if you don't, you'll discover fairly quickly
that the AI isn't too swift. In most cases, the animals are
predictable and can be dispelled with fruit bombs or avoided
altogether with little effort - with the exception of the evil,
evil birds.
All in all, Tarzan is a pleasant surprise. The game looks good
(as good as the film), sounds good (better than the film, as you
can "X" out of anything you don't want to listen to), and plays
quite well. While the game is not particularly mind-stumping or
sophisticated, it is challenging and does require a good a
of skill, whether in jumping from place to place, knowing where
hidden items might be, or fighting belligerent leopards who lunge
a lot. Even if movie-license games turn you off, this game is an
exception and worth taking a look at. If you can't stand Disney
and have no interest in the franchise, this game is still worth
looking at. --Lauren Fielder
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