Shrek the Third

Shrek The Third is basically what you would expect it to be: a half-assed movie license cash-in

The majority of attempts at humor are tired and lazy, consisting almost entirely of fairy-tale characters talking with “unlikely” voices: valley-girls or surfer dudes. There are a few chuckles involving Donkey, and using Puss-in-boots’ special “cute eyes” move to daze foes is good for a smile.

The game is boring to look at, with bland hallways-full-of-boxes environments and uninspired level design. The sound won’t stand out, except for the occasional mildly-amusing voice line.

While the game isn’t exactly terribly buggy, enemies do have issues dealing with obstacles and magically disappear if you just run past them. We did encounter a bug where the game got stuck with a miniboss not jumping down to fight us, and we had to restart the level.

 
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Shrek the Third

Genre: Action
Expected release date: May 2007
Published by: Activision
Developed by: Shaba, Activision
Franchise: Shrek
Multiplayer Modes:
Offline
1 player SOLO
4 FLAWED
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