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Jumper: Griffin's Story
Publisher:
Brash Entertainment
Developer: Red Tribe / Collision Studios
Genre: Action
Release: February 12, 2008
Platforms: Playstation 2, Xbox 360, Wii
Reviewer: Eric
 One of the worst movies of the year also has one of the worst games of the
year. Jumper: Griffin’s Story is a sour attempt to bring this movie onto our
television screens, with a controller in hand. This lackluster game has the same
appeal as games did back on the original Playstation. The graphics may look
pretty in magazines and advertisements, but when you put the game on you will be
bored to tears.
This poor excuse of a movie game does not help its bigger brother, which for
some reason has made $50 million more than it should have. The games story is
just as bad as the movie; there is no way to avoid what is known as Griffin’s
Story. Did we care that much to have a video game based on him?
If you haven’t figured it out yet the Jumper game is based on Griffin. He was
the other main character in the movie that nobody gave a rats ass about. From
the few hours I spent playing this game all I figured out is Griffin is pissed
about his parents death and he wants someone to pay. That means he has to kill
the same person over and over again for the next couple of stages.
It took me one sitting to beat this game and I am not kidding. Once you put this
game on you just jump right into it. There are no difficult settings; you play
as Griffin and within three hours the game is over. The movie only lasted an
hour and thirty minutes so you get more time here, but do you really want to
spend $59.99 on an unpolished game like this?
To make this game simple it is a button masher. They try to make the game
challenging by adding red spots where you can’t attack your enemy, but fifty
percent of the time you can hit them. Just hit a bunch of buttons and you’ll
clear the screen of bad guys. Do it again and clear another screen. Make sure
you pick up the health potions in-between screens, Jumper: Griffin’s Story tends
to get difficult out of no where.
Griffin’s Story has a combo system that seems completely pointless. This game is
a button masher, why do we want to put in some thought on certain button
configurations? Anytime you find a comic book cover the game will automatically
throw you into the combo maker screen. Why must we always change our combo? Is
Griffin trying to say the combo we made for him isn’t that good?
 I really can’t stand when games like this jump difficulty curves just like that.
You will be going through the game without a breeze until a group of trench coat
guys come out. These guys will block all of your moves some how. I had points
where I had to replay the same part five times until I beat these guys.
Challenging parts in games in one thing, but whenever the game changes
difficulty out of no where you have problems. Not only that the loading times in
this game are up to par with first generation Playstation 2 games.
The games cut scenes are really lame. They went with comic book style scenes
before each level. All of these scenes look terrible; I would rather watch the
cut scenes in Comix Zone. Griffin’s Story also offers mini cut scenes whenever
you do these special kills. I must say for a game rated T these scenes are
pretty violent. Griffin will warp a guy into a aquarium and watch him get eaten
by a shark! The little bastard will also drop them millions of miles away from
the ground. I think these game needs to get another rating. Some crazy kid out
there might try to throw the school bully into a aquarium just like Griffin.
Is there any real reason to play this game? Yes there is and it’s for the
achievements. After the games first two battles I already had enough achievement
points to make my gamer score look like a million bucks. Within an hour I had
well over half of the games achievement points. Some of them seem impossible to
get like beating the game without dying. Come on you are telling me it is
possible to beat some of these bosses without dying? Half of the time I
purposely died just so I could respawn and gain full health again.
Final Verdict
This is why movie based games get a bad name. The game does not feel or play
like a next gen game should. I saw the movie (don’t ask why) and at no time
during this game did I feel like it tied up any loose ends. There is no fun
factor in this game at all; the best part is whenever you shut the game off.
This isn’t the worst game out there, but it definitely should not be added to
your collection anytime soon.
Rating
4 out of 10
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