Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo

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Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo
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Developer(s) Frontier Developments
Publisher(s) BAM! Entertainment
Distributor(s) Acclaim Entertainment (Europe)
Platforms PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Microsoft Windows
Release date(s) EU 20031003October 3, 2003
NA October 7, 2003 (PS2)
NA October 14, 2003 (Xbox & GC)
EU October 31, 2003 (PC)
Genre(s) Platform
Mode(s) Single-player

Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo is the first video game featuring Aardman Animations' popular characters Wallace & Gromit. The game was developed by Frontier Developments for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and Microsoft Windows. The game also features the voice of Wallace, Peter Sallis.

Setting

The story sees the duo take on Feathers McGraw, the penguin villain from The Wrong Trousers, once more. Feathers has escaped from the penguin enclosure at West Wallaby Zoo, and taken over the entire zoo, kidnapping young animals and forcing their parents to work for him, helping him towards his ultimate goal - turning the zoo into a diamond mine.

Wallace and Gromit, meanwhile, have adopted one of the zoo's baby polar bears, named Archie. As they go to visit the zoo to celebrate his birthday, they find the zoo closed. A quick spot of inventing back at the house, and they prepare to embark on their latest adventure. Hiding inside a giant wooden penguin, a parody of the famous Trojan horse, they infiltrate the zoo, and set about rescuing the animals and undoing Feathers' work.

As Wallace and Gromit delve deeper into the zoo they discover ancient temple exhibits (complete with booby traps), drills, lava, loads of machinery, and even snow slides as they travel about the six levels; in each they must save three baby animals: elephants in the Jungle House and Temple, beavers in the Mines, gorillas in the Volcano, pandas in the Warehouse, polar bears in the Ice House, and zebras in the Diamond-o-Matic.

As Gromit, the player must use Wallace's bizarre inventions - including the Porridge Gun, Turnip Launcher, Springy Boots, and Gyrocopter - to battle Feathers McGraw's robotic minions and rescue the baby animals in typical platform game style. The game was praised by reviewers for keeping "the flavour of the original claymation".[citation needed]

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator Score
GameRankings (GC) 70.62%[1]
(PS2) 69.34%[2]
(Xbox) 67.55%[3]
Metacritic (PS2) 67/100[4]
(GC) 66/100[5]
(Xbox) 63/100[6]
Review scores
Publication Score
EGM 5.83/10[7]
Game Informer 7.5/10[8]
GameSpot 6.5/10[9][10]
GameZone (PS2) 7.4/10[11]
(GC) 7/10[12]
IGN 6.7/10[13]
NGC Magazine 70%[14]
Nintendo Power 3.3/5[15]
OPM (US) 3/5 stars[16]
OXM 7.5/10[17]
TeamXbox 6.5/10[18]

Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo received mixed reviews from critics. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the GameCube version 70.62% and 66/100,[1][5] the PlayStation 2 version 69.34% and 67/100[2][4] and the Xbox version 67.55% and 63/100.[3][6]

References

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