Jaws Unleashed
by Majesco Sales Inc.
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Product Summary
Brand: MajescoRelease Date: 2006-05-23
Platform: PlayStation2
Model: 96427014096
Publisher: Majesco Sales Inc.
Product features:
- Players take control of the Great White Shark, with themes and locations from the original JAWS films
- 10 detailed, destructible environments with 20 missions full of intense action
- Face fearsome arena bosses including killer whales, powerful boats and more
- See your victims before they know you're coming and target lock on enemies from afar with Shark Vision
- Perform stunning underwater, surface and air attacks & unleash real-time damage on intelligent enemies, vehicles and structures
Video Game Reviews of Jaws Unleashed
Customer Review: Ever dream of being a man eating shark and repeatedly terrorizing tourists and commercial fisherman?
Summary: 4 Stars
Jaws is a very surprising game. Within the package is a mixed bag of excellent animations and graphics for Jaws with some very low res and low poly graphics for the humans and other targets. The gameplay similarly follows this trend some nice and some really bad features, notably easy to control mechanics and straight forward missions like "kill the lifeguards" with more head scratching objectives involving a FPS favorite -exploding barrels-.
Jaws has a surprisingly fresh and unique story where you take the role of the man eating lone wolf master of the ocean. At the outset you are eating people, fish, head butting and generally wreaking havoc. Once you are done with the intro you get captured and the real game starts.
The story also begins to unfold, a semi charming tale of corrupt corporate greed and environmental ruin.
Who can save the ocean from corporate greed, pollution and the generally filthy and degrading habits of humans? Why the original man eating movie star, Jaws!.
Surprisingly its the story and missions which keep this game going. If not for the objectives and cutscenes, the game would be a mindless killing affair.
Despite the highly unrealistic premise of a giant fish rallying against Big Oil and pollution moguls, it is just that story that gives you a reason to be interested in Jaws.
This story is wrapped around a simple game mechanic of eating, getting hungry or damaged, and eating again to restore health. It can be quick fun to ignore side missions and story missions and simply rampage and kill jet skiers, swimmers, fisherman, kayackers, water skiers etc... but without the story these actions can start to feel very samey.
The story is what drives you to different locations, day/night, settings and objectives. Inside a "sea world" type park, roaming the beachfront, or existing in suspiciously sterile man made environments, these are your interlocking playgrounds of blood.
Toss in a very light RPG feature of upgrading stats and "moves" , the developers have taken the budget game to the next level.
A great license, some diligent varied mission design saves the game from what could have been a complete disaster. From noshing on life guards to destroying environmentally unsound commercial fishing boats, the game really has you doing a bit of everything. Even the dreaded "find a key card to open lock" generic missions.
Pros
- Great sense of speed and destruction with Jaws
- Lots of missions and side missions to keep busy
- Over the top bloody humor
- Kill humans, destroy piers, sink boats, battle Orcas, other sharks, squid
- Humorous and well done "story" mode
- lots of hidden collectibles
- constant challenge to stay alive
- lots of "moves" snap things in half, play baseball w/ your power tail
- Find a key card? A shark w/ a key card? Actually a quite funny solution to the challenge
Cons
- While jaws looks and moves great, the rest of the graphics suffer from
-- Very short/poor draw distance
-- fogging ....underwater?
-- Low def human graphics
-- Camera gets in the way often
-- lots of little glitches, like clipping, control issues
-- Stealth attack not very stealthy
-- Annoying respawning enemies like "feed inducing" underwater robots
-- sometimes opaque solutions to mission objectives
-- Control issues can cause some side missions to be frustrating
-- Since when did sharks become sentient and aware of corporate greed?
-- Laughably simple human AI
-- piranhas are very annoying
-- not nearly enough boss and mini boss types
Description of Jaws Unleashed
Jaws is a new kind of 3rd-person adventure, where you become the deadly ocean predator from the classic movies. Driven mad by low-frequency radio waves, you'll eliminate the oil drilling crews and equipment responsible for the frenzy-causing emissions. Armed with 3000 teeth and powered by 5000 pounds of muscle, you will hunt down and annihilate your enemies in an accurate undersea world. Over 25 points of disconnection, allowing characters and objects to be torn apart by Jaws, piece by piece Follow story-based missions, enounter side missions or roam the island area causing havocAll Games
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