This game is pretty fun it has co-op modes where 1 or 2 people can play together. There is also a multiplayer airplane dog fight game where you shoot down the other players plane. This game has good messages like help your friends or save the animals. The boy russel also shares cool facts about animals and camping.
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Up
(2009, Video Games - Action/Adventure, Rated E10+, Play it on: Mac/Windows, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Nintendo DSi)
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Glitches keep this game from getting a hearty thumbs "Up."
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 10 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Up was written by Harold Goldberg
Parents need to know that this generally kid-friendly game features mild cartoon violence such as using weapons like golf clubs to whack cartoon animals and insects. Also, you'll see spatters of green blood on the ground after killing jungle bugs. In arial combat levels, you are tasked with shooting down planes that simply disappear in clouds of smoke.
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What’s the Story?
Up is Disney's latest Pixar movie, currently shown on thousands of screens nationwide in 3-D. THQ's video game UP, not in 3-D, follows the movie's story line. This platformer game features a thoughtful, inquisitive kid named Russell; Carl, a delightful old man who fears assisted living; and a balloon-propelled flying house which ends up in Venezuela for an often humorous escapade.
You'll control both Carl and Russell (ever tethered to the flying house) during the game, and you'll often have to work in tandem to get things done. As you move around this world, you'll amass coins for health purposes by killing bugs and breaking rocks. Russell can shimmy across ledges while Carl can use his cane as kind of grappling hook. Russell can use his backpack as a weapon, too. Some of the game levels involve flying bi-planes in dogfights. While there is multiplay for up to four people, there is no online play.
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Up's characters have all the charm of their movie counterparts – right down to the way they move. The graphics are top notch, though not exactly Pixar quality. In both foreground and background, the unlikely heroes, outrageous villains, and tropical environs look about as good as any movie-based animated game can for this generation of consoles. And while you can't explore everywhere you want to as you could in the WALL-E game, you don't really notice that you're on a path from which you can't really stray.
Up, while good, is not THQ's finest hour when it comes to its stable of Pixar-related games. Some of the attention to detail – which makes or breaks a game like this – is missing. Carl, the oldster, often whacks Russell with his cane when he is trying to crack open coconuts or smash bugs. Carl is not supposed to do that but the computer-controlled Russell gets too close to the cane, and - whack - he's down on his back. Also, when swimming through a supposedly harrowing cave filled with rapids and giant snakes, there's not much to do except collect coins. In fact, if you don't do anything, you still get to the end of the run unscathed. And sometimes, Russell's dialog is cut off by another line of dialog. That essential suspension of disbelief is occasionally missing and with it goes your willingness to be emotionally touched – which is sad because the movie itself is so appealing.
ClosePublisher’s Details
Released on 5/26/2009, price $20-$40, not online enabled
ESRB rating: E10+ (for Animated Blood, Mild Cartoon Violence)
ESRB rating: E10+ (for Animated Blood, Mild Cartoon Violence)
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- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Educational
- Good role models
fun for children and early teens
- I rate this title on for age 6 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
- Safety isn't an issue
Fun game, more tame than most.
Fun game so far. I purchased for my 7yr old who loved the movie. Graphics are good, but not world class. Game play is easy to learn, but some of the action can be challenging though not frusterating. This is action / adventure oriented with minimal fighting, at least compared to Lego Starwars, etc.
- I rate this title on for age 7 and give it
- My highlights are:
- Educational
- Good role models
- Safety isn't an issue
- Easy to play
Great game!
I know I'm 13, but I really like this game! I highlighted that it was easy because in just the few hours after we bought the game, we were already on level nine! But, we're on level 16 or 17 now and it's kinda hard. So I'm not saying that all of it's easy, but many of the levels are. Parents, violence isn't a huge concern, but Russell and Mr. Fredricksen will crush bugs or collect them, and you do have to fight dogs and snakes. But it's not extremely violent. It's not even really "violent" if you ask me. There's no language or anything else innapropriate. It's very fun and kids will enjoy it. In my opinion, it's worth buying.
- I rate this title on for age 7 and give it
the up up and away review
I loved te movie and the game was even cooler because you got to actually be the character thetbyou saw on the Tv so it was fun to play and experience actually being a character especially the men grandpa and the dog so yeah that's basically it I hope you enjoy the game just as much as I did! =)
- I rate this title on for age 10 and give it
I had so much fun!
it was great it pulled me right in.It had alot of action and I played it like 5 times a day.It was just aswome.
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