Metacritic Games

George of the Jungle and the Search for the Secret (Wii)

Grab a vine and swing into a grand adventure with your friend, George of the Jungle! George is swinging and soaring through the dangerous terrain in search of the papers that hold the cure to a devastating disease – and he needs your help. A big, mean bird has snatched these precious papers and scattered them throughout the jungle. Join forces with George of the Jungle and help him find the missing pages. Without them, Doctor Scott and the Witch Doctor might never finish their research! [Crave Entertainment]

Crave Entertainment
Action, Platform
Players: 1
E (Everyone)
Developer: Crave Entertainment
Released March 11, 2008

Overall Metascore

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

35 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 DarkZero
It is a bit of a waste of the Wii’s capabilities though, and if you have a DS it may be worth picking up that version as it seems much more suited to a handheld.
55 NGamer UK
It's harmless, but hardly worth bothering with. [May 2008, p.74]
48 Console Monster
It is quite a poor game, mainly due to the longevity though being a budget title – I wasn’t expecting a masterpiece.
40 Jolt Online Gaming UK
George of the Jungle is basic at its best and irritatingly flawed at its worst, relying almost entirely on its license to sell to an audience perhaps unaware of the genre’s past glories.
30 AceGamez
George of the Jungle is a poor effort that, while looking fairly good and staying true to the style of the TV show, features derivative, repetitive gameplay, coupled with such poor controls and such a ridiculously high difficulty that it's rendered almost unplayable.
30 Gamestyle
The 2.5D graphics are quite nice and it captures the character and environment well, but overall we can only really recommend this to parents who want to shut their kids up for five minutes.
30 Zentendo
George of the Jungle may be aimed at young children, and their requirements may be different from that of a videogame reviewer, but this is just nothing more than sloppy.
29 IGN
It's not funny and it's not fun to play. If the developers had simply fine tuned the collision detection it probably would have been fine.
26 Cheat Code Central
A stupid game that's designed to trick parents into picking this up for their young children. Even if you're one such parent buyer, please do not buy this for your kids.
10 EuroGamer
Go away, George of the Jungle, and die horribly in a fire.

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