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Video game developer Traveller's Tales and kids video game publisher Buena Vista made The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for the younger video game demographic while keeping its solid characteristic for a good gaming experience.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is a video game based on the just-released film of the same name, which is, in turn, based on the classic book series from C.S. Lewis.
In this holiday season tale, there are four children you can play as (Peter, the older brother; Susan, the older sister; Edmund, the younger brother, and Lucy, the younger sister), yet only two people can play this game as t he video game is a basic fantasy adventure with plenty of puzzle-solving and some light combat.
The three console versions look about the same, although the Xbox version is slightly sharper than the other two. The game looks the best on the PC if you have the hardware to max out the resolution, although some of the lighting effects make the characters look even more like shiny, plastic dolls than they do in the other versions.
This console and PC trip through the Wardrobe is a mostly run-of-the-mill action adventure that might hold some measure of appeal to fans of the film, but not so much anyone else.
While it's disappointing that you can't have four people play, the two player support makes the game more enjoyable and easier to play as well. You can switch between the characters at any time with a press of a button. There are also tandem abilities that require two of the children to team up. When you move close to a character you can press a button to initiate a cooperative attack.
However, the multiplayer mode has an interesting issue: the artificial intelligence is completely useless. You can only control one character at a time, so there's always at least one character being controlled by the AI.
The soundtrack and voice actors directly from the film help make this game a good game to tie-in with the movie. The audio is fitting with the game, although sometimes the music will seem too epic for the type of gameplay that this game is. Sound effects are pretty weak and do feel like they are repeated a bit too much most of the time, especially some of the more annoying screeching and grunting noises that enemies make as they attack.
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