Zapper – One Wicked Cricket
- Platform: Nintendo GameCube
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Genre: Approach
Product Description
The main character of Zapper is a cricket who must rescue his brother, Zipper, from a pilfering magpie. With a storyline that doesn’t go much deeper than that, Zapper very quickly becomes about as exciting as watching real crickets. The goal of the game is to maneuver Zapper owing to a completely linear 3-D world filled with mad bumblebees, picketing beavers, giant snails, blade-swinging statues, cascading waterfalls, and various other exotic dangers that make you feel like you’re in a hybrid version of A Bug’s Life and Indiana Jones. There are six worlds and 20 levels to Zapper, and experienced gamers will have small difficulty moving owing to all of them quickly. Helping Zapper is his ability to zap lightninglike sparks out of his antennae, which causes some bugs to jump and some boxes to open. By freeing enough fireflies, Zapper gains super-zap abilities, which will eliminate certain dangers and open otherwise locked boxes.
Anyone who has played Frogger will immediately recognize the similarity of Zapper. Each level has a grid as its base, which itself is well integrated into the six unique worlds. Zapper jumps and zaps his way from square to square and is able to rotate in place–a very useful feature when trying to avoid a swinging blade to your left, a river to your right, and the void behind you. Early in the game these dangers are easily navigable, though even the most deft gamer will die often before figuring out exactly which obstacles can be traversed. Later in the game these dangers multiply to such an extent that getting past them requires more commitment than the game deserves. And because the game is not much fun, finishing it feels more dutiful than challenging. –Bill Hummel
Pros:
- An unassuming and nonviolent game that mightAmazon.com Review
The main character of Zapper is a cricket who must rescue his brother, Zipper, from a pilfering magpie. With a storyline that doesn’t go much deeper than that, Zapper very quickly becomes about as exciting as watching real crickets. The goal of the game is to maneuver Zapper owing to a completely linear 3-D world filled with mad bumblebees, picketing beavers, giant snails, blade-swinging statues, cascading waterfalls, and various other exotic dangers that make you feel like you’re in a hybrid version of A Bug’s Life and Indiana Jones. There are six worlds and 20 levels to Zapper, and experienced gamers will have small difficulty moving owing to all of them quickly. Helping Zapper is his ability to zap lightninglike sparks out of his antennae, which causes some bugs to jump and some boxes to open. By freeing enough fireflies, Zapper gains super-zap abilities, which will eliminate certain dangers and open otherwise locked boxes.Anyone who has played Frogger will immediately recognize the similarity of Zapper. Each level has a grid as its base, which itself is well integrated into the six unique worlds. Zapper jumps and zaps his way from square to square and is able to rotate in place–a very useful feature when trying to avoid a swinging blade to your left, a river to your right, and the void behind you. Early in the game these dangers are easily navigable, though even the most deft gamer will die often before figuring out exactly which obstacles can be traversed. Later in the game these dangers multiply to such an extent that getting past them requires more commitment than the game deserves. And because the game is not much fun, finishing it feels more dutiful than challenging. –Bill Hummel
Pros:
- An unassuming and nonviolent game that might hold young gamers’ attention
Cons:
- Superficial storyline
- Repetitive gameplay
- Not a lot of fun
(This review refers to the Xbox version of this game)
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if you wanna get a game. where all you do is jump onto items. with unbalanced levels terrible controls. dreadful graphics and incredibly poor design. or if you just prefer to play frogger all over again. then this should be rigth up your alley. but most people DONT like that so play elsewhere. anyone who gives this game more than 1 star. is a an idiot. b wonders why so many people prefer excellent graphics over terrible graphics. c is a small kid that still watches barney. this game is a dull unsavigianly dull game. with but not even one redeming qaulity. save your cash. UNLESS you are 6 years ancient. and prefer dreadful sports meeting. with dull gameplay. no tale horrible graphics etc. buy this game and you will be settiing yourself up for disapointment.
Rating: 1 / 5
Who would wanna get this game? Its real messed up. The tale is dumb and the levels are hardly detailed. The only thing that i like bout this game is the resolution(resolution is like if you slice a tree with a sword it will fall down or you go owing to bushes and they fall down) this game had real excellent resolution. If you wanna dissipate cash go ahead and get this game.
Rating: 2 / 5
To the kid who rated this with one star and the title, ‘dreadful game’, I have the GBA version of this game, and I give it five stars, and I’m not A, B, or C in your multiple choice. This game is splendid. You can express your opinion, but don’t place others down in doing it
Rating: 5 / 5
This title was okay but I thought it could have been much better. I would say its a cheap ripoff of crash bandicoot. Im 20 and am having a very hard time getting into this game enough to play it all the way owing to. The movement is somewhat hard to adjust to and I find the gameplay itself somewhat dull. The boards are nice looking but thats where I reflect the ripping off of crash came into play. I spent 7 dollars on this game new and was dissapointed. I guess if you have not anything better to play it might be alright but I would highly recommend something else.
Rating: 3 / 5
I really liked Frogger Beyond, but I like Zapper. The cool thing about Zapper is you can zap your enemies with a standard zap or a super zap. While playing Frogger Beyond I kept wishing that Frogger had some kinda attack. Well Zapper does and it’s a cool additive to Frogger Beyond-type gameplay. The graphics are crisp and clean. There are perfectly designed worlds with challenging levels. A fun game for all ages.
Rating: 4 / 5