Mini-games and multiplayer events are added, and will likely be the main draw for young players. That doesn’t mean the party element has been dropped altogether. The game for Shrek 2 was decent, and made an effort to include the much-sought-after party element to the adventure mode by allowing for four-player cooperative modes, but Shrek the Third‘s game misses out. It’s a shame, really, because children, believe it or not, like playing together. In fact, while the movie’s premise - a group of guys go for an adventure away while a group of girls have an adventure at home - seems perfect for a multiplayer adventure game, the makers of this game seem not to have noticed. If only the other girls made it in as well. I’m glad to report that Sleeping Beauty is a playable character in the game, but she doesn’t use the fall-down attack from the movie. One can’t help but notice how some elements, most notably the princesses’ escape, seem made for a video game. It wasn’t a bad film, per se, but it felt like it was missing something - more plot, more humor - something. Of course, it helps if the movie the game is based on was good, but Shrek the Third is the weakest of the trilogy. Y’know, with all these licensed games out there, you’d think someone in a dark office somewhere would realize that if they just focused on “one game per movie” rather than spreading themselves thin over a dozen spinoffs and knockoffs, they might actually make more money. Strangely enough, it wasn’t.Īctivision, which touts itself as makers of the most popular children’s video game franchises, had dozens of different teams working on this game, had the groundwork laid by the Dreamworks films and met various levels of success with Shrek franchise games like Super Slam and Smash n’ Crash Racing, but it seems like they just couldn’t find the effort to put into this game. For what it is - a chance for game companies to cash-in on a movie’s success - it’s alright and can keep kids entertained for a bit, but it plays like it was put together by the lowest bidder.
Shrek the Third, the game, is not a bad game, but it isn’t good either. Is there a rule that decrees all movie-based games be mediocre? When I first watched Shrek the Third - seeing the princesses fight through hordes of bad guys, watching Artie earn his kinghood, watching Shrek trade barbs with Charming –- I thought, “man, this would make for a great video game.”
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