This game goes OFF THE CHARTS with guts and gore!
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Jaws Unleashed
(2006, Video Games - Action/Adventure, Rated M, Play it on: PlayStation 2)
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Violent action game really bites -- adults only.
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Jaws Unleashed was written by Chris Jozefowicz
Parents need to know that this action game places players in control of a super-aggressive shark based on the killers from the Jaws movies. The shark attacks humans and animals, dismembering prey in a bloody cloud. To keep Jaws healthy, players must kill innocent people and animals. Players are also rewarded for destroying boats, piers, and submarines.
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What’s the Story?
In JAWS UNLEASHED, gamers have the opportunity to take control of one of the greatest antiheroes in movie history: the great white shark from the Jaws movies. As the game begins, Jaws is captured and put on display in an aquarium on Amity Island. After players break out, they roam freely in the waters around the island, swimming to story missions and side challenges, or simply cruising the waters looking for human and animal victims.
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Is It Any Good?
Jaws Unleashed is simply a mess. The story missions are only loosely connected, and the objectives can be tough to figure out. Players will quickly grow bored with ramming boats and moving explosive barrels around, all the while avoiding little fish or sharks that can rapidly drain Jaws's health.
Yet the controls are the biggest problem. Players often struggle to get Jaws in the right spot to eat a swimmer or place a barrel. The imprecise swimming and attacking is further undermined by a game camera that gets stuck behind objects or pops above the water when the action is below the surface. One of the more frustrating parts of the game is watching Jaws' health disappear while desperately swimming around, rotating the camera, looking for the man or beast that's doing the damage.
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Released on 6/7/2006, price $29.99, not online enabled
ESRB rating: M (for Blood and gore, Intense violence)
ESRB rating: M (for Blood and gore, Intense violence)
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Most Recent Reviews
- I rate this title off for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Excessive consumerism
Old horror flick game to graphic for young kids
- I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
not that bad
well its a good game, but it realy doesnt have a good story line. the only questinal part about the game is the violence. there is spare limbs floating around aftert attacks. it realy should have been rated T.
- I rate this title off for age 2 and give it
evil
this game is is for teens their is alot of blood and it is very violint it is all about killing!!!!!!!!
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
i liked this game
this game was cool of corse u had chalenging parts i found it pretty cool.i mean cmon its realy a srtatagy game and it shows u wat its like to be a shark.if u hate this game then u have a borin live!
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
what's a jaws?
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