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Open Season xbox360 Game Reviews
Open Season
Critic Score
Metascore: 59 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.0 out of 10
based on 15 reviews
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Team up with a cast of crazy critters, unleashing your animal instincts in Open Season, the game – a riotous romp in the great outdoors in which a rowdy brood of forest animals turns the tables on a bunch of unsuspecting hunters. When a domesticated grizzly named Boog gets lured into leaving the creature comforts of home by a fast-talking mule deer named Elliott, he finds himself lost in the woods just three days before hunting season begins. Forced to "rough it" in the great outdoors, Boog goes native, rallying all the forest animals to take back their home and send the hunters packing. Interact with Beth, Shaw, and all your animal favorites from the Open Season film. Throw skunk bombs, hurl rabbits, use acorn-firing squirrels, and pull outrageous woodland pranks to scare the pants off the hunters. Roll in a giant snowball, ride the rapids on a floating outhouse, zip through tunnels in a crazy mine cart ride, and take on more madcap adventures as Boog discovers how to go from "Mild" to "Wild". Challenge your friends or team up together in 4-player mini-games. [Ubisoft]

PUBLISHER: Ubisoft
DEVELOPER: Ubisoft Montreal
GENRE(S): Action, Adventure
PLAYERS: 4
ESRB RATING: E (Everyone)
RELEASE DATE: September 19, 2006

What The Critics Said

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81
Xbox360Achievements
Open Season’s only true flaw is its lack of replay value.
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80
AceGamez
Open Season is one of this gaming season's most pleasant surprises - a game of a kids' CGI film that isn't a total sell out.
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76
XboxAddict
I seem to never get tired of riding an outhouse down raging rapids, call me silly.
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70
WHAM! Gaming
As Open Season shows, the search for a kids movie game that appeals just as much to parents as it does to little ones proves to be an elusive one. Sub-par controls and by-the-numbers gameplay aside, this one is still worth a purchase if A) you're buying strictly for your child or B) you're looking for an easy 1000 achievement points.
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70
Games Master UK
It's cute, comical but simple. [Christmas 2006, p.96]
65
Xbox World Australia
There is nothing at all wrong with Ubisoft's Open Season; it's a technically competent, well produced adventure game designed for kids, and is a game they will probably love.
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63
IGN
The comedy, while basic, actually had us laughing a few times through the game, and even though the story and character designs from the film are amazingly cookie-cutter, the game offers a few high points for anyone with little tikes in desperate need of some gaming goodness to go with the afternoon flick.
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60
Extreme Gamer
If you're not into the movie or cute fuzzy forest animals then Open Season doesn't offer up much to the causal gamer, especially with the voice mimic talent they found for the production.
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60
MS Xbox World
The majority of the game’s levels do feel repetitive. If you like to get some easy achievements from the game, then these can easily be attained.
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60
Official Xbox Magazine
The target audience is gaming kiddies, and Open Season manages an attractive string of 25 short and bloodless missions for the prepubescent set, plus a few basic minigames. [Holiday 2006, p.86]
53
GameSpot
This rendition of Open Season is a plodding adventure full of inane fetch quests and lifeless dialogue scenes.
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50
Official Xbox Magazine UK
Open Season is definitely a good kids' game - nice to look at and very easy with it. However, adults will burn through this game in less than six hours with no real difficulty.
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50
X360 Magazine UK
Hackneyed missions and claustrophobic environments are just two of Open Season's problems. Is the box recyclable? [Issue 13, p.89]
40
360 Gamer Magazine UK
Feels like a game that was made out of obligation to the movie. [Issue 17, p.74]
40
EuroGamer
Put it this way: if your kid gets stuck on a game like Open Season, you know something's amiss. Consider it a good test of whether videogames really are for them.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Karen H. gave it a10:
Sweet characters in a great game. What can you say about a game that's perfect? It's so much fun and it's 4 player, so my whole family (hubby and 2 young ones) can play together. This is what gaming is all about to us!

Kull D. gave it a9:
I love this game simply for the way it brought joy to my children every minute that they played it yesterday. There are precious few GOOD games for children. This one shines. It's got the whole package. Great graphics, a wonderful storyline, and great game play functionality. My kids are great at the Xbxo controls, but their dad sucks! Even I found the game easy to control though.

Gar S. gave it a10:
Join those fun furry creatures as you relive the adventures from the movie. I don't have kids, but us adults can play kids games too, right? Ahem. Well, I love animated kids films and I love some movie based kid's games too (Shrek was a great game!). This one is top notch for the kid movie loving adult.

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