If you like your platform games old school this is definitely worth a look, although obviously aimed at a young audience it does provide a fair challenge. It would probably best for you to shop around and find it as cheap as possible though, as the game isn't immensely long, and there is very little reply value. 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.
George of the Jungle is obviously aimed a younger gamers but, as ever, that's no excuse for creating an inferior product that swings from unfairly hard to far too easy, or fails to capture any of the charm of the cartoon it's based upon. Frustratingly, this just ends up joining a list of licensed products that desperately hope to sell on the strength of the name rather than quality of the experience. But then they do say it's a jungle out there.
Audio/Visual - 4
Gameplay - 4
Value - 4
Innovation - 4
Overall -
Gamecell UK reports:
''Gamers of a certain age will probably remember something of the cartoon series George Of The Jungle, even if it's only the theme tune. Well, the King of the jungle and his buddies are back in a new NickToon series, and have come to the DS in platform game form.
You play as George and you make your way through the jungle collecting stones to pay for your medical check-up. Sounds simple, doesn't it? You even have a cast of friends to help you: Ape, Ursula, Magnolia, Shep and Tookie-Tookie bird all help out, and are even sometimes playable characters.''
Console Monster writes: The Nintendo Wii console is associated with being the next-generation 'children' console because of its fun factor and amount of 'children-based' titles. Almost every week a new infant-aimed title is released for the Nintendo Wii and when I had the opportunity to review George of the Jungle, I swung at the chance. [Fired -Ed]
The George of the Jungle Wii game is based on Nicktoons cartoon which uses the famous catchphrase from the 1997 movie, "George, George, George of the Jungle, watch out for that tree" and adds characters that children (and possibly adults) will find entertaining. Like all cartoons, George of the Jungle has a storyline where one of the characters will have a problem and the main character(s) aim is to fix this problem.
The storyline in George of the Jungle is that George and his sidekick, Ape, are off on an adventure in the Jungle of Mbebwe, when they come across Magnolia and Ursula arguing at who was ill first – typical women behaviour. Also arguing are the fathers of the girls Dr. Towel Scott - a doctor who believes in science - and The Witch Doctor - a doctor who believes in magic. The doctors are fighting over a remedy book which could cure the girls' illness and the book is stolen from their grasp by Tookie-Tookie, a rare jungle bird. It's up to George to recover the pages of the book which have been scattered around the jungle and return them to Dr. Scott...
