Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinbad:
Legend of the Seven Seas is a simple action game based on the
children's movie of the same title that was quietly released in the
summer of 2003. Though the game features some competent gameplay
mechanics and attractive graphics, the extremely short campaign mimics
the film's brief theatrical run a little too well, as it's gone almost
before it starts.
The problems begin
before you even open the box. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is rated
Teen by the ESRB, but clearly, this is a game aimed at the same younger
audiences that saw the PG-rated film. The very light and 7or4cartoonish
violence in the game left us wondering how Sinbad could have earned the
same rating as many explicit shooters, but no matter how you
rationalize it, there's got to be something amiss when a game's rating
does not match its target audience.
Once you get started
playing, you'll find that the developers have done a pretty good job
with Sinbad's graphics. Though the animation isn't always crisp, the
vibrant colors and the artistic settings and character models do
resemble the film that the game is based on. The game's music is
appropriately epic, but it's disappointing that none of the stars (Brad
Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Michelle Pfeiffer among them) who lent
their voices to the film did any voice acting for the game. In fact,
the game is devoid of any kind of spoken dialogue whatsoever. The plot
is advanced instead by comic book-style panes and scrolling text in
between missions. Like the Teen rating, the abundance of written text
seems somewhat strange for what's basically a children's game based on
an animated cartoon.
The game follows the same plot as the
movie. You take the role of the legendary swashbuckler Sinbad, who has
been framed for the theft of the Book of Peace, which protects the city
of Syracuse. The actual culprit is the goddess of chaos, Eris, and it's
up to you to seek her out and return the magical Book of Peace to its
proper place.
The gameplay mechanics are surprisingly decent
for a movie-licensed game. You use the mouse to move around by clicking
on the area where you wish to move. Your actions are confined to just
three keyboard buttons, which are mapped to your slashing attack,
thrust attack, and block maneuvers. By using different combinations of
these keys, however, you can unleash special attacks like dives,
uppercuts, spin attacks, and a coup de gr?ce. Later on, you are able to
unleash magical attacks that eliminate every enemy on the screen at the
expense of your supermeter, which very quickly builds up as you defeat
enemies through more conventional means. The game does a great job at
teaching you these moves, and although the mouse-driven movement can
make aiming your attacks a little awkward at times, for the most
part, the controls feel pretty tight and intuitive.
Download Links
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