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Message: Add Smiley More Smilies...	Font Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Yellow Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Violet White Black Font Size: 1 2 3 4 Default 6 7 8 9 [quote=GamingNexus]For all of us Tim Burton fans, Buena Vista games has offered us a title<br/>that takes off where the 1993 cult classic movie, The Nightmare Before<br/>Christmas, left off. This offering, so ingenuously entitled The<br/>Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge, starts simply enough with<br/>Lock, Shock, and Barrel bringing Jack Skellington’s nemesis Oogie<br/>Boogie back to life. Naturally, Oogie being evil and all, wants<br/>revenge. This all takes place one year after the story of the movie<br/>ends. You’re job as Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is to stop<br/>Oogie from completing his vengeful plan of overtaking Halloween town<br/>and ultimately control of control of all of the holidays.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Prior to rejoining in the fight to stop Oogie, Jack has obtained a new<br/>tool from Halloween town’s resident mad scientist, Dr. Finklestein.<br/>This tool developed by the good Dr., who is quite obviously not an<br/>M.D., is called the Soul Robber. This tool is definitely you best<br/>friend in this game. You can use it like a whip or you can grab on to<br/>ghouls and toss them around, for a bit. You can also use it to swing<br/>around a little bit. Naturally, you can use it to suck souls out of<br/>ghouls, here and there, hence the name Soul Robber.<br/><br/><br/><br/>The visuals in this game are true to the original movie. The characters<br/>of this game are very well done and are just that, characters. They are<br/>very detailed and at many times brought a chuckle, or oftentimes, a<br/>devilish grin to my face. One of the joys of this game is the fact that<br/>it has a mischievous side to it that is displayed in some of the<br/>characters. <br/><br/>The landscape of the town is also nice and detailed and appropriately sets the scene for the ghoulish action that takes place. <br/><br/><br/><br/>Auditorilly speaking, this game is top notch. Being a music lover and<br/>musician, I’m sometimes hard to please in this category. With that said<br/>Nightmare, excells in this area. The songs are all either originals for<br/>this game or from the movie and they’re all excellent. Again, that is<br/>coming from a gamer who heavily prefers games that are backed by actual<br/>rock bands, ala the Tony Hawk franchise.<br/><br/><br/><br/>The sound aspect of the game is even further strengthened by the<br/>excellent voice over work in this movie. Even the lame moments are<br/>delightfully lame. In this same vein, it’s evident that at times BVG is<br/>going for the cheeky effect in its dialogue. This adds tremendously to<br/>the enjoyment of the game, at least for those of us who appreciate such<br/>humor.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Despite providing an excellent environment for a game to take place,<br/>Nightmare falls very flat when it comes to the actual game play.<br/>Although, Jack’s movements are very true to the original film, his<br/>functionality is second rate. Take for example the heavy reliance on<br/>the sole robber function. Although it sounds really cool, this weapon<br/>is simply a whip for most part. Sure you can also use it to grab<br/>enemies and suck their soles, as well as a few other tricks but<br/>throughout the majority of the game, the sole robber is just a<br/>whip. There are some combos to perform but they are not very<br/>creative at all. Which is too bad considering this game has the<br/>signature of one of the most creative moviemakers in recent memory.<br/><br/>...[/quote]
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