The entire Universal Studios theme park is yours to explore, with Woody Woodpecker acting as your guide. You will see things no visitor has before and collect secret items that help you complete a series of challenges. The biggest challenge of all is seeing the whole park before it closes at dusk. Attractions include rides based on Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, Backdraft, and E.T.. The more secrets you discover, the more dimensions of the park will open before you. And you can see everything from either third- or first-person perspectives. For one or two players.

The High and Good Points:
*Based on Universal Studios in Japan
*Great Photo-Realistic Graphics
*Real-time voices
*One of the best graphic displays on the GCN yet
*A must for minigame fans
*Additictive Gameplay
*Great Movie Music, highly added
*Minigames are fun and some are two players
*A movie quiz with over 500+ questions
*Great, un-sloppy cinema sequences

The Average Points:
*Only main characters talk
*Not much characters
*Takes a while to beat on other modes
*Easy mode way too easy, doesn't help you prepare for normal and hard mode at all
*Attraction Mode base poorly thought out
*Should have included the Backlot Tour or more minigames
*Map makes no sense what so ever since you go in little sequences

The Bad and Low Points:
*Camera Angles are horribly made
*Guides say you can explore in first-person, which is not true
*Some minigames are arcade-style, but have skimpy play control
*Backdraft is extremely hard to beat in easy and normal mode
*Jurassic Park is a game that has an unbeatable ending in Normal and Hard mode
*E.T. is way too simple on any mode
*Very, extremely childish at times, especially in the character voices and the puzzles
*Puzzles ridiculously easy
*Quiz is way too hard on normal and hard mode
*Quiz becomes way too easy after you saw the questions a million times
*Talking to people makes no sense, since they are always talking about "Universal Studios is so great"
*Caps and the Hover Board makes a great collection of stuff to collect, but there should be more (like the real things at a theme park [Souvenirs and Food])

This is not a promo for the studios, but is highly into talking about the park.

To sum this up, Universal Studios: Theme Parks Adventure is fun for a rent, but a pain for a buy. So, rent it and have fun, which was I did and I was satisfied.

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Simply Hellish  Nov 16, 2003
Should you ever find yourself entering the gates of Hell, Satan will personally hand you a copy of this GC turd. Why? Because playing this ultra-boring video "game" is worse than having a spike driven through your pancreas. The designers of this stinker should be forced to play it for 24 hours. The game play is as exciting as watching flies mate. Your pathetic missions are sprinkled with tedious trash-picking and disturbing mini-games. In fact, when you throw a piece of trash away, the boy exclaims with delight, "This is FUN!" It's as if they need to tell you that you are actually enjoying the game. Of course, you are not. You are figuring out ways to get your money returned while holding back the tears. Be afraid. Be very afraid... And bored out of your mind.

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To Short, To Easy!  Jan 06, 2002
Well, to start off, the only reason I rented this game was for the BTTF ride, but once I had played that game, it was boring. All you do is hit Biff, the only thing that can hold you back from winning is running out of time! None of the games kept to the story of the movie, nor the ride, except for BTTF.

Another something I found to be a down side to this game, was the camera angles. When you're walking through the park, the camera stays in one place! It gets very frustrating at times. Another bad thing about this game is that it's the easiest game I've ever played! Now that can be good, or bad, but in this case, it's bad. The games are short, silly, and easy. Once you beat it, there's nothing else to do. I beat this game in one day! My question is, where's the challenge?!

Well, few as they are, it dose have some good points. One would be the graphics, they are wonderful! The Animation is very well done.

So, would I buy this game? No. Would I rent it? Yes, I already have, but I wouldn't rent it again. So if your not sure, rent the game, but wait on buying it, I think you'd be a bit disappointed.

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Did I miss something?  Jan 03, 2002 By Kevin J. Isaacson
Well maybe I'm just too old for this one, but I went in expecting it to be more of a kids game. Nevertheless, this was without question the worst game I've ever played on any system. The game interface was incredibly poorly constructed, moving from one screen to the next made no sense as your perspective changes more or less randomly every time you move to a new area, and your viewpoint is set arbitrarily by the game. I find it astonishing that with all of the 3d graphics power of the system this game won't even let you change your viewpoint. There are no markings for where you can and can't go, so you spend a great deal of time just walking into dead ends to make sure there isn't something there. The games themselves are dull and unimaginative, most requre no real input from the user anyway and almost play themselves. Many of the games I tried to play turned me away with a message that there were too many people on the ride already? Maybe that is an accurate reflection of what Universial Studios is really like, but its infuriating in a video game. And while you can assume from the name that its a promotion for Universal Studios, the level of advertising got very annoying very quickly. Every person in the game that you talk to gushes about how wonderful Universal Studios is, and after about the 10th in-game ad for their park I just stopped talking to the other people. Don't waste your money on this one.

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