The Cave Xbox 360
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70 out of 100

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  • Summary: The Cave is an adventure game from Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion creator Ron Gilbert, and Double Fine Productions, the studio behind Psychonauts and Brütal Legend. Assemble your team of 3 from seven unlikely adventurers, each with their own unique personalities and stories, then descend iinto the mysterious depths to explore locations including a subterranean amusement park and a medieval castle, not to mention a fully armed and ready-to-launch nuclear tipped ICBM. The Cave awaits.… Collapse

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 44
  3. Negative: 2 out of 44
  1. Gaming Age
    Jan 22, 2013
    91
    The Cave has a handful of faults, sure, but the overall experience is well worth checking out.
  2. GameTrailers
    Jan 22, 2013
    86
    Despite some brief rough patches and a structure that requires replay, The Cave is a thoroughly entertaining descent that lives up to its pedigree. Gameplay and narrative work together to create a funny and surprising adventure with inventive puzzles that hit the challenge sweet spot just right.
  3. Post Arcade (National Post)
    Mar 8, 2013
    70
    The Cave is a game worth experiencing at least once. Truly funny games are rare, much less funny games that cover themes as diverse as sin, murder, redemption and desire. The fact that it covers these topics with a sense of style and ease (and without feeling like you’re being bludgeoned with a philosophy textbook) is praiseworthy.
  4. Telegraph
    Jan 27, 2013
    40
    Considering Double Fine nailed the whole 'characters with differing abilities' concept so well in the brilliant Stacking, it's bizarre how poorly it's been pulled off here. Disappointing as a puzzle game, inconsequential as a platformer and far too reliant on players having the patience to traipse around, The Cave ends up feeling extremely hollow.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. setz
    10
    This game is the first game in a LONG time that the moment I finished it I wanted to instantly play through it again. See you can only pick 3 out of the 7 characters each time and each has different puzzles throughout. This game is brilliant, the puzzles are tough but dont require digging around online for solutions (if you think about it you can figure it out) and the humor is top-notch. A must pick up for puzzle/platformer fans.… Expand
  2. Vite
    10
    Quite a game should i say. Interesting, astonishing, with a splendid humor (even black humour sometimes), a great addition to those games created by Shafer and Gilbert. Lot of puzzles. Haven't seen such a game for a very long time. Oh, yeah, and there is also a bit of moral for every story you will hear from The Cave.… Expand
  3. orosznyet
    8
    First of all this is a really cool game. It was nice that I could choose 3 from 7 characters in the beginning. The voices, sounds, music and visuals are also good. But honestly it's not a long game (even if you do all the 7 characters). Most of the puzzles are pretty easy but definitely not for children. The second time when i played through I was bored because the three extra mission was not enough to make the main missions still exciting. Highly recommended game.… Expand
  4. djvampyre
    3
    This is pretty much a kids game only IMO. For an adult I felt that the platforming was very tedious in the sense that it was slow and clunky. Climbing a ladder in this game is just brutal and it has to be done quite often. The puzzles were not very well designed. If you were looking for clever puzzles that give you a huge sense of satisfaction after solving this is not it (unless you are a kid of course). The characters unique special abilities mattered so little I'm really not sure why they wasted time putting them in the game at all. Kinda frustrating to see all that wasted potential there. The scenrey was cool though and the art really had me sucked into the game. I would have rather dealt with bad art than bad gameplay though.… Expand

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