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okay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Got this for my nephew, he seems to like it pretty well. If you don't want your child playing anything with a lot of blood, don't get this one.

Jaws Unleashed not for Australia!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It would probably be a good product but it can't be played in Australia. Had to return the game.

Cool game, but WAY to buggy...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty fun game to play. Who wouldn't want to rip random people to shreds with a great white shark? My main problem with the game is the immense amounts of bugs. The game will mess up quite often, and sometimes even freeze. It drives me insane. So before you buy it, be warned... You're game will likely freeze, lag, tweek out, etc. and it will annoy you to no limit.

Chaos and Destruction!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is so fun!! It is great to destroy ships, docks, and eat people. It is a good balance between the mayhem, puzzles, and free-roaming. The graphics are really good and the game itself is simple to play. Highly recommended if you want to be very destructive!!

very good adaptation of the movie concept--

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Like all horror movie icons, Jaws the Shark has become a pop-culture anti-hero of sorts since the first film arrived in theaters in 1975. Since video-game technology first began to advance significantly in the late 80's, there have been a handful of shark-hunting games, including one based on JAWS for the original Nintento system. But finally, in 2006 for 21st century game-systems Majesco/Universal come out with "Jaws Unleashed"-- where you, the player, get to control the titular creature, a great white shark that's nearly unstoppable.

The story-based plot involves a return to the New England community of Amity Island, first seen in the first Jaws movie. Some 30 years after the events of the first movie, big industry, including an oil rig and an aquarium park, now mark the landscape. Fatefully, a great white shark happens upon the scene, and when it is captured, all havoc breaks loose.

There is both free-roam play available in the game and goal-specific "Episodes" as well. In free-roam, Jaws swims in the waters around Amity Island, eating ocean creatures for health as well as, yes, attacking sea-faring humans in their boats. "Episodes" require Jaws to meet a specific checkpoint or goal, while avoiding death from the likes of not only humans and their weapons, but occasionally other sea creatures like rays, squid, and killer whales (even schools of piranha!)

This is a game with very good graphics, especially when the shark travels underwater, encountering the various forms of sea life. The Challenge Stunts vary in difficulty, allowing Jaws to pull several fantastic feats. bonus points can be picked up by eating junk like license plates!

the bosses can be a little frustrating, as is the fact that, well, sharks don't swim backwards, so there is no "reverse" throttle, as such, so in tight areas, especially those with dead ends, players may find themselves unduly stuck--- for a sequel, the game producers may do well to include a "reverse" feature-- it might be scientifically unsound, but hey, so is hurling barrels and the other preternatural stunts Jaws pulls off here (which add a surreal quality to the game).

As this game was released with the PS3 around the corner, sequel possibilities are debatable-- still, upgraded for the next-gen systems, a JAWS-based game could be even more "immersing" than this (pun intended).

Grade: B+

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