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Sneakers
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Microsoft
Developer: Mediavision
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Puzzle
Players: 4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Summary
Players take on the role of a mouse named Apollo, who must lead his friends through a human-sized town to battle the enemy. Fights are comical battles where you throw wind-up punches and flying kicks while also directing the actions of your troops. Being mouse-sized offers its own unique advantages and obstacles. A rolling apple could be as dangerous as a tumbling boulder while a small hole in a wall serves as an ideal shortcut. Players have to be cunning and quick to defeat the enemy. [Microsoft]
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What The Critics Said
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Official Xbox Magazine
A bizarrely conceived, thinly veiled pseudo point-and-click adventure with some very simplistic fighting sequences. [Jan 2003, p.80]
Armchair Empire
The shame is that the lousy and simplistic gameplay takes away from the fact that this is actually a nice-looking Xbox title.
Read Full Review >Xbox Nation Magazine
The game's infinitely looped, saccharine-sweet piano music and French-style accordion tunes may in fact turn children into the hockey-mask wearing, ax-wielding maniancs we always see in the movies. [Feb/Mar 2003, p.88]
Gamer's Pulse
It's tedious, frustrating, poorly designed, lacks any sort of graphical flair, and is all but guaranteed to induce boredom within the first ten minutes, never mind the approximately two hours it takes to finish the game.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
Anyone with a modicum of gaming experience will probably find Sneakers to be boring and tedious.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
All of that may appeal to very young kids of roughly the same age as Barney's fans, but playing the game is another matter. Any child old enough to hold a controller has outgrown the concepts here.
Read Full Review >GamerWeb Xbox
Everything is low quality and repetitive, you'll throw the game down in a number of minutes.
Read Full Review >IGN
I plan on burning my copy so that it can't fall into the hands of impressionable children who might then come to think all video games are meant to suck this bad.
Read Full Review >All Game Guide
Sneakers has a stench not even a pair of Odor Eaters can mask. It is hard to believe this was the title Microsoft touted for its Japanese console launch, and after playing you’ll understand why the system failed to entice the buying public.
Read Full Review >GameCritics
After playing Sneakers, I don't think the package declaring it's "Only On Xbox" is such a bright idea. They'd be better off keeping that sad fact a secret and quietly dumping all remaining copies of the game next to the steaming pile of "E.T." 2600 cartridges rotting in the desert.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Piyo gave it a 7:
I am an older gamer and I like this kids title. It's definately cute and friendly. However I find the fight scenes jarring with the overall atmosphere. Why couldn't they make it more of a puzzle game than mice Fight Club?
Mom gave it an 8:
My boys are six and absolutely love it! It is cute and has adventure. They will outgrow it, sure. But I am glad to have found a game that isn't all graphic violence for them to play with for a while.
Thom gave it a 0:
Its crap.
