Metacritic Games

Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure (GameCube)

A hodgepodge of mildly diverting arcade games and puzzles wrapped around an imaginary vacation trip, Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure is best suited for rookie players and young movie buffs...Points are the price of admission to the attractions. You score points by playing games, collecting tiny letter tiles to spell "Universal Studios." [Nintendo.com]

Kemco
Action, Adventure
Players: 2
T (Teen)
Developer: Kemco
Released December 19, 2001

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

39 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 GameSpy
You'll spend far too much time in the park, and not enough in the attractions, and that's just not very fun, no matter how old you are.
49 GameCube Europe
While not as bad as the majority of critics are reporting it's certainly not worthy of a full price title.
45 Electronic Gaming Monthly
Should be plenty fun for the very young ones in your family. [Mar 2002, p.141]
42 Nintendo Power
They have such wonderful monsters to draw from, but don’t really use them. [Jan 2002, p.127]
40 Game Informer
The Waterworld "attraction" (actually a thirty-second clip of a plane crashing into the water) is the lamest thing I've ever seen, except for myself naked. Yuck! [Mar 2002, p.81]
40 Nintendojo
Too few mini-games, too little fun, and frustrating navigation ruin what is essentially an interesting concept. The whole debacle lasts approximately three hours, the first of which is spent locating all of the attractions and being told you can’t enter.
37 TotalGames.net
To think this dire piece of programming is worth 40p, let along £40 is an insult to everything we believe in as dedicated gamers. Buy it...go on, we dare you. You’ll be the only fool that does...
35 GameSpot
Too frustrating and convoluted for kids to have any fun with it, and all but the most desperate adult GameCube fans will find it tedious and unentertaining as well.
30 IGN
Pure tedium.
30 All Game Guide
A collection of mediocre to annoying titles that are over within minutes.
20 GameShark
This game just sucks. Avoid at all costs. In fact, don't even pretend that this exists.

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