UP! UP! And Away!

So tonight is the start of the second bi-weekly blogging of games.

After some thoughts on what games to open and play, I decided to come back to an older game that I acquired awhile ago.

Game: Disney Pixar UP!

I decided to go with this game because it looks fun and if it relates anything to the story, it should be a good one!

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No update! Yay, finally a game that doesn't require updates every week.

First impression: the music reminds me of the movie and makes me want to watch it again! The picture quality looks ok, not too great but fun nonetheless.

For the first mission, you are Doug (the dog) and your mission is to protect Russell and Carl from the enemy planes. From then on, the story places us, Russell and Carl in Paradise Fall, or at least according to Russell "we're in South America alright".

The game somewhat take over parts of the movie where you find Kevin and have to free him and stuff. They added some "boss" levels just for added adventure and spice things up a bit. Both Russell and Carl have special abilities such as using the bugle and fixing the earpiece, respectively.

At the time of the writing, I just finished the first boss level, Level 4. After 90 minutes of playing, I've finished until to chapter 5, unlocking 16 achievements and 325 Gamerscore points. OK, I went to the next level and knocked out the campfire and got another achievement so it's actually now 17 achievements unlocked and 345 Gs.

Overall, the game is very simple and the objectives is relatively easy. So far the achievements unlocked for playing the levels, smashing up bugs, using your special abilities certain times, and others are in gameplay.

Gameplay: 8/10 (Fun game to play and maybe to relax to, a good break from all the FPS games and such. You can also play with 2 players)

Plot/Presentation: 8/10 (I'm basing this score from the movie. So far, it's up to par with some side missions and boss levels to spice up the game)

Graphics: 6.5 (For a movie-themed game, I would say it's pretty decent to say the least. Try not to watch the characters in game when they're in "cinematic" mode<-- not a cutscene but close to it)

Sound/Music: 8.5 (I'm pretty sure they asked the voice artists from the movie to do the voices in the game so that's a plus! Also, the narrator from Muntz's movie [beginning of the movie], narrates the cutscenes between levels to make it interesting)

Replay Value: low (To say this vaguely, this game is a one-time deal. I would sell it after finishing up the game. Knowing me, I would just save it to add to my collection. Plus, it's one of my favorite movies so having the game is not too bad)

Estimated Achievement Difficulty: 1.5/10

Side note: I chose this game so that I could get my 40,000th Gamerscore point with an achievement from one of my favorite movies. I'm also planning on buying a new game after I hit the milestone so I could write up a more recent games rather than the games that's on my backlog right now. I do have top recent games from 2010 including Fable III, NBA 2K11*, Halo: Reach*, Red Dead Redemption* that I have to finish or still to be played.

* denotes games have been played

UPDATE:
I finished this game in approximately 6 hours *according to my raptr account . My 40,000th points was a 50pt achievement "Multiplayer Extras" from the game Disney-Pixar UP, achieved on March 24, 2011. It wasn't a true 40,000 milestone achievement but I did surpassed it with 40,015.

As for additional review for this game, I think it was a fair review for the amount of time I played the game.

Overall rating: 7.75 *according to the previous rating
Overall rating (finished game): 7.0/10 (I gave it a lower rating due to low replay value. I was a bit biased with the hype of the game in comparison to the movie therefore it received a higher overall rating).


Thanks for tuning in for another game blog,
The19MrHockey