This review contains spoilers

Shark tale is even worse than the movie. The Story is the same as the movie, but with added moments for gameplay purposes, and each chapter starts off with a part of an interview from a character talking a bit about something to do with what you are about to play, not a bad idea, except it spoils the ending and the film's story isn't good anyway, so it's just making a bad story even worse. The Graphics wouldn't be too bad for a PS2 game, but the fact that the characters are ugly anyway make the game, UGLY. The Gameplay is very verified, but they all have 1 important thing in common, they all suck. You have to move to the side of a screen to avoid an attack from something trying to eat you, but it's not hard because there are 3 sides of the screen that you are safe, despite the arrow telling you to go 1 way and sometimes punch the creatures despite the fact that Oscar being able to fight monsters was supposed to be a lie, you can also catch items by circling them, it's not interesting, you can move around in an open world where normal fish can be enemies that hurt you, a mission that shows that the electricity and graffiti is fine under water logic from the film is here, yes that's a film problem, but that doesn't excuse making the game completely different, there are random DDR games, 1 that interrupts a new reporter, ones where you have to race to the end, but there are barely anything interesting on screen in these open segments, same with the open worldish ones too, and the worst stealth gameplay ever, where you can be seen by everyone, hide behind something they can see you go behind, and it shouldn't even happen, since Oscar got to the whale wash before Sykes so this shouldn't even exist and another one in a ship full of sharks, dodging obstacle games where you avoid the whale wash contraption instead of swimming around it, and dodging jellyfish stings for a certain amount of time where it's not clear to tell where not to be. Music feels like a cheaper version of what the film's composers would create, and Sounds are not good, with things that don't sound like how they should and certain effects that could take you out of the emersion. Shark tale is a travesty of game making and shows off how to do every kind of gameplay badly for any game people inspire to make.

Reviewed on Oct 12, 2022


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